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BigHospitality's Sustainability Week: Pubs

28-Jan-2010 By Becky Paskin

With pub closures at an all time high, the sector has had to be extra resourceful and creative in order to stay afloat. We speak to a small pub company and an independent to see what they're doing to run their businesses in a more sustainable way.

Eco-friendly and sustainable food products

28-Jan-2010 By Becky Paskin

Sourcing all your produce from within the UK can be impossible at times, but importing from abroad needn't hit your sustainablilty credentials. Try our eco-friendly food product ideas to get you started.

Leon to put calorie information online

28-Jan-2010 By Stefan Chomka

Healthy fast-food chain Leon is putting the nutritional content of its dishes, including how much fat and calories each contains on its website

Equipment to help hospitality businesses stay sustainable

27-Jan-2010 By Becky Paskin

From the build and design of your hospitality business to the way you dispose of your waste, here are a few equipment ideas to keep your restaurant, pub or hotel more sustainable.

Lancaster London hotel and sustainability

27-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham

As part of BigHospitality's Sustainability week we visited the Lancaster London hotel to find out what managers and staff were doing to help run the business more sustainably.

BigHospitality's Sustainability Week: Hotels

27-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham

We find three hotels who have taken the sustainability message to the core of their business.

BigHospitality's Sustainability Week: Restaurants

26-Jan-2010 By Becky Paskin

Being a sustainable business isn’t an ideal achievable only by those with wads of cash to spare.

Sustainably-sourced wine and spirits

26-Jan-2010 By Becky Paskin

Sustainably-sourced food should be matched with sustainably-sourced drinks if businesses are to lower their carbon footprint.

Hospitality suppliers running sustainable practices

25-Jan-2010 By Becky Paskin

If you want your business to be more sustainable, you need to ensure that both the products you use and the suppliers themselves run environmentally-friendly practices.

BigHospitality's Sustainability Week: What is sustainability?

25-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham

BigHospitality's Sustainability Week: What is sustainability, why should your business support it and how can you be sustainable?

Conservatives push for more calorie labelling in restaurants and pubs

13-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham

The Conservative Party has said it wants to push forward with the Food Standards Agency's efforts to get restaurants to display nutrional information on menus and will do away with unit labels on alcohol if it gets into power at the next General...

Pizza Express introduces low alcohol and low calorie wine range

05-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham

Pizza Express has added low calorie and low alcohol red and white wines to its Leggera range to appeal to customers watching their weight or alcohol intake and help fulfil its healthy eating commitment to the Food Standards Agency

FSA comes under fire for nutrition approach

26-Nov-2009 By Stefan Chomka, Restaurant magazine

The Food Standards Agency has come under attack for failing to give the industry proper guidance on how to introduce nutritional information onto menus

The Real Greek displays calories on menus

23-Jun-2009 By Emma Eversham

Clapham House Groups Greek restaurant chain becomes the first restaurant company to commit to putting the calorie content of dishes on all menus at all branches

US restaurant chains agree to mandatory calorie labelling

11-Jun-2009 By Becky Paskin

Large chain restaurants in the US have agreed to support a new law to make calorie and nutrition labelling on menus compulsory, sparking fears such a move may be implemented in the UK

The S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best 2009: The results

20-Apr-2009 By Emma Eversham

El Bulli and The Fat Duck retain first and second place respectively on the 2009 list while Danish restaurant Noma rises seven places to take the third spot