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The Gold Service Scholarship, which launched last year in a bid to inspire more young people to take up a career in front-of-house hospitality, is back for 2014, with a number of industry greats on the lookout for the next star of service.
The British Street Food Awards are returning for a fifth time this year with an invitation to vendors from Europe to enter as well as the launch of a new street food app.
The total foodservice and hospitality market in the UK is expected to be worth £90bn by 2018, according to Allegra Strategies’ Eating Out in the UK report as eating out becomes the ‘new normal’.
Little Chef has been sold for a reported £15m to a subsidiary of Kuwaiti-owned Kout Food Group which has pledged to keep the roadside restaurant brand alive.
Diciannove, a new Italian restaurant, deli and cicchetti bar, is set to open within the walls of Crowne Plaza London – The City later this month as the IHG-owned hotel looks to complement its existing Chinese restaurant and cocktail bar offerings.
Crown Cellars, the specialist wine and spirits division of Carlsberg UK, has launched O&E, a range of five contemporary wines from around the world.