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Professional Partners: How the couples who've started their own businesses get the work-life balance right. The Caterer and Hotelkeeper Interview: Choice Hotels Europe chief executive Duncan Berry on why reducing the group's number of hotels was so important
Posted: 09 February 2012 | 15:00

Welsh Government plans to make food hygiene ratings compulsory

Catererandhotekeeper NewsThe Welsh Assembly Government is expected to publish proposals today to force all food businesses to display a food hygiene rating on their premises, with with the threat of a fine if they do not. Restaurants and takeaways could face a maximum £1,000 fine...
Posted: 14 December 2011 | 11:14

Compass buys cleaning firm ICM

Contract catering group Compass UK and Ireland has bought cleaning firm Integrated Cleaning Management (ICM) for an undisclosed sum. Ian Sarson, group...
Posted: 24 October 2011 | 11:10

Worrall Thompson slams Scores on the Doors for being bureaucratic

Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has attacked the Scores on the Doors hygiene rating scheme for being overly bureaucratic after his Oxfordshire pub...
Posted: 21 July 2010 | 10:55

Hospitality firms waste £6b a year through ‘resource inefficiency’

Switching to energy-efficient light bulbs can shave up to 15% off lighting costsHospitality businesses are wasting more than £6.4b per year by overlooking simple money-saving actions, according to a new campaign launched today by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). Defra is urging the catering and hospitality trade to reap the financial benefits ...
Posted: 04 November 2009 | 13:00

Savoy installs oil management system to protect staff

OilsenseThe Savoy has implemented a new oil management system at its Simpson’s-in-the-Strand restaurant that is designed to allow staff to empty and store used oil at the touch of a button. The Oilsense system, from waste management firm PDM Group, removes the need for any manual handling of used oil,...
Posted: 03 November 2009 | 08:00

Hotel guests value a clean room above anything else

hotel housekeeperHotel guests in the UK value room cleanliness above everything else, new research has found.
Posted: 18 August 2007 | 07:00

Top London hotels pose health hazard

A number of luxury hotels in London have been exposed over instances of a lack of cleanliness that were described by environmental inspectors as a “serious danger to health”.
Posted: 26 March 2007 | 14:35

Antony Worrall Thompson distances himself from pub which food hygiene inpectors rate zero

Antony Worrall ThompsonCelebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has distanced himself from the country pub which was in the newspapers after it was rated "zero" by food hygiene inspectors.
Posted: 05 March 2007 | 14:22

Newcastle Thistle hotel guests struck by winter vomiting bug

Around 40 guests staying at the Newcastle Thistle hotel struck down by illness.
Posted: 28 December 2006 | 18:22

Chinese restaurant in Edinburgh fined over filthy conditions

A Chinese restaurant in Edinburgh has been fined £18,000 after an environmental health team found "filthy" conditions in the kitchen including mouse droppings on dishes.
Posted: 14 December 2006 | 14:00

Grease interceptors to be fitted in all restaurants

A Dartford MP has tabled an early day motion calling for grease interceptors to be fitted at all restaurants and fast-food outlets by law.
Posted: 13 December 2006 | 11:00

Greek restaurant fined for 'foul smell' in kitchen

The owner of a Greek restaurant in central London has been fined £24,000 after hygiene inspectors came across a "foul smell" in his kitchen.
Posted: 20 September 2006 | 16:42

Liverpool council seeks health labels on take-aways

Liverpool City Council has called on take-away outlets in the region to show traffic light-style labels on menus so customers can tell whether their food is healthy.
Posted: 07 September 2006 | 00:00

Bulgarian restaurants fail to meet EU standards... and other European news

Essential news from around Europe, including: 99% of Bulgarian restaurants are not up to EU standard; 99% of Bulgarian restaurants are not up to EU standard...
Posted: 17 May 2006 | 16:06

FSA launches online forum

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is launching an online forum to help catering businesses meet EU hygiene regulations.
Posted: 02 May 2006 | 10:22

Chinese restaurant fined £15,000 after mouse droppings found in kitchen

A London Chinese restaurant has been fined £15,000 after mouse droppings were found in its kitchen.
Posted: 21 April 2006 | 10:11

Simpson's-in-the-Strand hygiene appeal fails

Historic London restaurant Simpson's-in-the-Strand has been told to clean up its act and ordered to pay more than £10,000 in costs after losing a food-poisoning case.
Posted: 13 April 2006 | 00:00

Hygiene cases can be costly

I write in response to recent reports that London restaurant Simpson's-in-the-Strand has been ordered to pay £10,352 in costs after losing a case against a hygiene improvement notice, based on allegations that the restaurant gave 31 customers salmonella.
Posted: 13 April 2006 | 00:00

Rising energy costs are hurting hotel profits

gas burnerRising energy prices and labour costs continue to be the major headache for hotel operators, according to a leading hotel consultant.
Posted: 08 March 2006 | 11:42

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17th May 2012