Managed restaurant and pub sales plummet over Christmas period
Sales across Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups feel by almost three quarters at Christmas, the latest data from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker reveals.
Archives for January 15, 2021
Flash-grilled: Marwa Alkhalaf
The co-owner of Iranian restaurant Nutshell in London on what it means to be a good chef, and why she regrets not pursuing it as career from a younger age.
‘Hidden’ courtyard planned for Cardiff Arcades
Plans have been submitted for a ‘hidden’ courtyard in Cardiff’s Castle Quarter that would be home to four independent hospitality businesses.
Friday Five: the week's top news
We round-up this week's main hospitality news stories including restaurants potentially not reopening until May; the prospect of tighter takeaway restrictions; and MPs debating the creation of a Hospitality Minister.
Greene King to rename pubs with 'racist connotations'
Pubco and brewer Greene King is to rename four of its pubs where the existing names hold racist connotations.
D&D London considers suburban sites as it plans for post-Covid era
High-end restaurant group D&D London is considering expanding its suburban presence in light of the changes to people's social behaviour caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Supreme Court sides with policyholders in landmark business interruption case
The Supreme Court says it “substantially allows” the appeal by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and hospitality campaign groups in what’s being hailed as a landmark case in the fight to get insurers to pay out for business interruption.
Applications open for Scotland's Government-backed management training programme
Scotland’s Hospitality Industry Trust (HIT) Scotland and the Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA) have launched a Government-funded leadership, management and supervisory training programme designed to help the country’s hospitality and tourism sector recover.
Hospitality sees 660,000 job losses in 2020
There were 660,000 job losses across the hospitality sector over the course of the 2020, the latest figures from Fourth reveal.