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To mark International Women's Day, mentoring programme Women 1st has announced it has trained 1,000 hospitality leaders with the aid of Thistle Hotels, while Boost Capital has revealed it is launching a £10m fund to support female entrepreneurs.
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon has opened its latest hotel and pub in Beccles, Suffolk, and will launch another venue in Whitby later this month ahead of further planned openings.
Cyrus Todiwala trained in India as a chef and worked in hotels and restaurants there until he moved to the UK in 1991. He opened Cafe Spice Namaste in London in 1995 with wife Pervin, and has built up a successful business while also dedicating much of...
Knorr has launched two concentrated sauces under the Italian Create More range - Tomato & Basil and Spicy Tomato - to help busy chefs add inspiration to dishes.
The Craft Guild of Chefs has launched its hunt for the 2013 Young National Chef of the Year and has expanded the contest to allow more chefs to take part.
Frederick Forster, the 2011 winner of the National Chef of the Year contest, has joined forces with Miele to launch a pop-up restaurant which, it is claimed, is totally 'calorie-neutral'.