The Foodservice Price Index recorded its fourth consecutive month of overall month-on-month inflation in September, although year-on-year inflation continued its downward trend for a fifteenth consecutive month, falling to 2.4%.
Labour's first budget in 14 years stole the headlines this week, alongside departures for Gaucho chief Martin Williams and The Ledbury's April Lily Partridge.
Britain’s leading restaurant groups achieved like-for-like sales growth of 6% in delivery and takeaway sales in September 2024, according to CGA by NIQ’s latest Hospitality at Home Tracker.
Bristol chef Josh Eggleton is building an interactive Farm Bus - complete with live chickens and hydroponics - to drive nationwide awareness and understanding of how food is grown.
Brian Trollip's promotion to Dishoom CEO, a dip in profits for the UK's biggest restaurant groups, and Michelin's plans for 2025 lead this week's top news stories.
Restaurant is teaming up with leading payments provider Dojo to understand how confident restaurateurs are in the tech that underpins their operations.
Britain’s leading restaurant groups saw like-for-like (LFL) sales rise 3.2% year-on-year in September, the latest edition of the CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker shows.
The Government has been urged not to derail the ‘fragile recovery’ of hospitality businesses after insolvencies across the sector fell to their lowest level since January.
BrewDog’s CEO says the multinational brewer and pub operator will ‘return to sustainable, profitable growth in 2024’ despite the group’s pre-tax losses nearly doubling last year.
The controversial US chain has twice failed to gain a foothold in the UK. Now it’s back for a third attempt with plans to open five restaurants within two years.
TGI's sale to Breal Capital and Calveton, Permanently Unique's expansion plans, and Orry Shand being crowned National Chef of the Year lead this week's top news stories.
Loungers says it is ‘continuing to outperform the broader UK hospitality market’ having delivered like-for-like (LFL) sales growth of 4.7% in the 24 weeks ended 6 October 2024.
Suppliers and brands including Walter Rose & Son, Woods Foodservice, Reynolds, Nisbets and Zonal have been named as winners in Restaurant’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2024.
The implementation of new tipping laws, Calum Franklin returning to London and rising losses at Richard Corrigan's restaurant group lead this week's top news stories.
The latest Foodservice Price Index (FPI) report from Prestige Purchasing and CGA by NIQ shows a third consecutive month-on-month rise in foodservice inflation, driven by rising beverage prices.
Homeless charity StreetSmart is on the hunt for new restaurant partners to join its annual Christmas campaign to raise vital funds to support people living on the streets.
UK-based charity Farm Africa reached 612,441 people across eastern Africa last year with projects including a network of 200 farmer service centres in Tanzania and investments in entrepreneurship in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp.
The festive season has the potential to be the busiest and most profitable time of year for restaurants. Here's how to create a cracker of a Christmas offer.
The return to the UK for Chick-fil-A, a lifeline thrown for TGI Fridays and job moves for Ewan Venters and James Brown are among this week's most read stories.
Action Against Hunger’s flagship restaurant campaign Love Food Give Food is now live, inviting diners across the UK to add £1 to their bill throughout September and October to support the charity’s life-saving humanitarian work.
Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver are marking 30 years of their iconic Clerkenwell nose-to-tail restaurant by serving their original 1994 menu at 1994 prices.
The end of Karen's Diner in the UK, TGI owner Hostmore falling into administration, and Brad Carter stepping away from his first London restaurant lead this week's top news stories.
Britain’s leading hospitality groups achieved modest year-on-year sales growth of 1.3% in August 2024, the latest edition of the CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker reveals
Highly-rated Margate restaurant Angela’s will temporarily move into a nearby training kitchen later this year to highlight its work supporting young people in the Thanet area.
Be Inclusive Hospitality (BIH), has revealed the finalists for its third BIH Spotlight Awards, which will recognise the talent of Black, Asian, and ethnic minorities working within hospitality, food, and drink, across the UK.
Hawksmoor's aim to double its rate of expansion, the restaurants taking up residence at Fulham Pier, and Hostmore abandoning its acquisition of TGI Fridays lead this week's top news stories.
Hospitality job vacancy have fallen below 100,000 for the first time since the pandemic with one of the sector’s leading trade bodies hailing it as a ‘positive milestone’.
Baton Berisha's departure from The Wolseley Hospitality Group, debut regional openings for Big Mamma and Lina Stores, and David Thompson's long-awaited return to the capital were among this week's most read stories.
Entries for the 2025 Gold Service Scholarship are now open, with front-of-house professionals based in the UK and aged 22-28 encouraged to apply before 1 October.
A new report is calling for the introduction of a ‘national restaurant service’ similar to that established by Winston Churchill during the Second World War, to help tackle food inequality.
The rising price of fish and chips, the prospect of a smoking ban in pub gardens, and Pizza Express's latest financial results lead this week's top news stories.
Britain’s leading managed restaurant groups have seen a year-on-year (YOY) increase of 9.4% for delivery sales, CGA by NIQ’s latest Hospitality at Home Tracker reveals.