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Tablebook.me, an outsourced reservations service, has joined forces with the booking website OpenTable to help fine dining restaurants maximise their customer service and fill more tables through telephone reservations.
Professional and trainee pastry chefs are being invited to enter a chocolate desert competition, which organisers ACF hope will raise the game of the sector in the culinary world.
Hotels have benefited from the breakfast opportunity for years, but with the economic downturn biting at the heels of many hospitality businesses, restaurant and pub operators are now waking up to the potential revenue provided by early morning service too.
The experts that advise the government on work-based immigration have called for hotel managers from outside the EU to be struck off the Tier-2 list.