UKHospitality has warned that fresh train strikes planned for December by the Aslef union will ‘devastate trading’ for the sector and cost businesses up to £800m.
The Spanish heavy hitter behind Bibo in London's Shoreditch on his first industry job, collaborating with McDonald's, and debating the nuances of his home country's cuisine.
Managed restaurant groups saw year-on-year sales growth slow to 2.7% last month amid widespread poor weather, the new CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker reveals.
Food delivery firms have been urged by the Government to introduce tougher vetting measures on all delivery drivers in a bid to prevent illegal working.
Further details have been announced for Raz Helalat's new iteration of The Coal Shed Brighton, which is set to move to a larger site in the city early next year.
Joe & The Juice is set to be acquired by New York-based investment firm General Atlantic, with plans for growth across the US, Europe and the Middle East.
Liverpool restaurant Lu Ban has permanently closed its doors after four years of trading, with a combination of rising costs and reduced footfall cited as being behind the decision.
MasterChef: The Professionals winner Laurence Henry has left his Cleaver & Wake restaurant within Nottingham’s The Island Quarter after around one year’s trading.
Loungers says it is on track to open its projected 34 new sites in current financial year, with four sites having opened since its 200th Lounge opening on 13 September.
Edinburgh-based Neapolitan pizza brand Matto will launch its third and largest site later this month in the Scottish capital’s Newington neighbourhood on the southside of the city.
This week's top news stories include another new venture for Jeremy King, price hikes creating a new tier of 'hyper-luxurious restaurants', and BrewDog calling time on its Hawkes taproom.
Key industry players including Tom Kerridge, Tom Aikens and Monica Galetti have signed a letter calling on the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to extend business rates support in his Autumn Statement.
Jamie Oliver and Jeremy King are two high-profile restaurateurs who could have called time on the sector after suffering setbacks, but both are back with something to prove.
The duo behind Restaurants Inc. have partnered with David Gleave MW to become the new custodians of Chelsea stalwart Enoteca Turi and its legendary collection of Italian wine.
Burger slinger Mother Flipper has opened its first permanent restaurant in its ‘spiritual home’ of Brockley, south London, more than a decade after originally launching as a street food outfit.
A breakthrough in the long-running rail dispute between the RMT union and train operators could ‘save the incredibly valuable festive period’ for the hospitality sector, UKHospitality has said.
The head sommelier at Hampshire’s Limewood on Fera at Claridge’s, Rioja-based winemaker Jose Gil and an unfortunate incident with a bottle of Chateau Grillet.
A fall in the number of food safety officers is ‘putting unsustainable pressure on existing teams and increasing the potential for food safety issues going unchecked’, a new study warns.
Average price hikes of 10.7% in London and 14.7% outside London are ‘swelling a new tier of hyper-luxurious restaurants’, the new edition of Harden’s London Restaurants claims.
Four out of ten consumers plan to spend less on socialising this Christmas with household budgets squeezed by high interest rates and sticky inflation impacting festivities this year, according to a recent survey from RSM UK.
