UK restaurant market to experience only marginal growth this year
The UK restaurant market is expected to grow marginally by just 0.9% in 2025, lagging behind the total eating out market’s growth of 2.6%.
Archives for October 31, 2025
Friday five: the week’s top hospitality stories
Pip Lacey and Calum Franklin’s restaurants at London’s new Guinness Open Gate brewery, and a spat over spud names were among this week’s most read stories.
Square founder Jack Dorsey and former Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti on AI, design and disruption
From hot dog carts to billion-dollar platforms, the two leaders share hard-won lessons on entrepreneurship, innovation and using technology to give customers, and teams, time back.
Book review: Vietnam: The Cookbook
Anaïs Ca Dao van Manen’s new book is a comprehensive and fascinating delve into one of Asia’s great cuisines.