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Look after your staff because healthy, happy staff are not only good for your soul but good for your business Wander around the back streets of any big city and you'll see shadowy figures in chefs' whites and waiters' get-ups, clutching a .
Few Brits had heard of a Caipirinha 10 years ago, now it's rapidly become one of the nation's most popular cocktails. Mocotó's bar manager Francisco Brasileiro, or Brazilian Frank (his real name, honestly), explains the art of ...
Chris Bodker, founder of Image Restaurants, sells the group to D&D D&D London has bought Image Restaurants, which is made up of Kensington Place, The Avenue, Launceston Place and The Fish Shop, all in South West London, for a figure believed ...
New air-conditioning legislation designed to help reduce global warming comes into force this month A new piece of environmental legislation will come into force on July 4 which will affect all restaurants with air conditioning. The new F-gas ...
The food revolution may have vamped up the UK's food offering but our customer service is still oceans apart from the United States, says Fay Maschler In 1917, a certain George M. Cohan wrote a song called Over There. The aim was to urge American .
Creating an alfresco bar can be a summer moneyspinner, here's how to make the most of your outdoor drinking space How we Brits love a bit of sunshine. Which is why when the weather's fair – and predictions are that this summer could be ..
North-western restaurateur, Paul Heathcote, is opening three new restaurants and refurbishing his existing estate as part of a £3m expansion plan. The restaurants will all open under the umbrella of Heathcotes, taking the estate up to 15 ...
The Maverick Grant Achatz and his trailblazing Alinea have helped Chicago challenge New York's standing as gastronomic capital of the USA The entrance to Alinea is down a long narrow corridor, a dimlylit windowless portal that gets narrower as ...
Who is he? Chairman of Davy's Wine Merchants, Wineshop and 37 Wine Bars and Dining Rooms. How did he get into the industry? He was born into it. James is the fi fth generation of Davys to run the family company, set up in 1870. Although he ...
A brilliant dinner, good night's sleep and fantastic walk is ;all they do;, say the modest owners of Lakeland Gilpin Lodge The Cunliffes of Gilpin Lodge in Windermere call themselves hoteliers, not restaurateurs. From setting up their ...
Who are you? I am Charita Jones, known as Momma Cherri, originally from a town on the outskirts of Philadelphia, called Wayne, Pennsylvania. I came over to London in '78 as Stage Manager for a gospel musical. When the show closed I sang in a band .
Despite the changeable weather, summer is well and truly upon us. The wine trade may think nothing happens from June until August, but many restaurateurs will be busy, not just with tourists, but regular customers who can't take three months off ..
Consumer demand for small food suppliers is high, but it takes organisation to manage the contracts Farmers markets in the UK are becoming more popular than ever before. Nearly 600 regular farmers markets across the country bring in a combined income .
The team behind Brighton's Pintxo People have taken the concept to Shoreditch in East London Bohemian Brighton is less than an hour's train ride from the Capital's vibrant restaurants, yet ‘London on Sea' can seem a culinary ...
QUARTER CHICKEN COMBO This is always on all three of our menus (in Soho, Clapham and Fulham). It's got spare ribs, smoked chicken (bone-in) and pulled pork so it gives people a chance to try three of the most popular things on the menu. The ribs ..