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Fair tips campaigners from Unite will gather outside Fortnum & Mason later today (Thursday) in protest at what they say is a 'Scrooge-like' raid on staff wages and service charge payments at the luxury store's restaurants.
Jason Atherton and his wife Irha are to open a new Italian concept, Hai Cenato, in the Nova development in London’s Victoria, in February 2017.
Online delivery platform Just Eat has agreed to acquire rival Hungryhouse for between £200m and £240m.
Currently more than two-fifths (43 per cent) of workers in the restaurant, QSR, hotel and pub sectors in the UK are foreign nationals, according to latest figures from Fourth Analytics.
Chef Francesco Mazzei, current chef-patron of D&D London’s Sartoria restaurant in London’s Mayfair, is to launch a new Italian restaurant in Islington in March 2017.
Somewhere making its way across the Atlantic is a shipping container packed with three metric tonnes of corn. According to the calculator on Sam Hart’s iPhone, that should be enough to make 225,000 10cm tortillas, which should keep his soon-to-open...
Punch takeover
Heineken has moved one step closer to acquiring the lions share of Punch Taverns' pub estate, after three of the pubco’s top shareholders gave their support.
North London-based restaurant and bar operator The Masseria Group has opened a café and deli in Kensal Rise on the site of its former barbecue restaurant Austen's Smokehouse.
Michel Roux Jr, owner with his family of the two Michelin-starred Le Gavroche restaurant in London’s Mayfair, is to scrap tipping in favour of including a service charge on all bills.