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Managed pub and bar firm TCG has launched a new quick-service food concept, called Wok Out, designed to keep drinkers in its pubs. The hot, freshly-cooked snack meals will be served from front-of-house serving stations at more than 30 TCG venues, or served at their tables by waiting staff.
Posted: 24 April 2012 | 10:35
The soon-to-be-launched Edge Hotel School, where students have the opportunity to do their training within a real hotel environment, could be "a milestone in education", according to the shadow minister for further education, skills and regional growth, Gordon Marsden.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 19:00
A 56-bedroom Holiday Inn Express has opened today on Merseyside as part of a £5.5m redevelopment scheme by Sanguine Hospitality. The Holiday Inn Express Liverpool-Hoylake opened in Hoylake, Wirral, on the site of the former Kings Gap Court hotel.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 17:51
Leicestershire catering firm Wilson Vale has signed a three-year sponsorship deal with Conference Centres of Excellence, a sales and marketing consortium for training, meeting and conference centres. Anthony Lishman, executive director of Conference Centres of Excellence, said: "We have launched a selective...
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 16:42
Travelodge is looking for a further 40 apprentices to join its Junior Management Programme (JuMP) this spring. JuMP provides A level students with a fast-track route into management. School-leavers receive a total salary of £25,000 to £30,000 while undergoing the three-year on-the-job training.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 16:34
Gregg's Table - the new restaurant from MasterChef judge Gregg Wallace, which has received a barrage of negative reviews since opening at the end of February - has appointed a new head chef. Spanish-born chef Jordi Vila, 34, has joined the restaurant in the four-AA-star, 80-bedroom Bermondsey Square hotel, London.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 14:32
Dorset-based family brewer and pub company Hall & Woodhouse is to hold the wholesale prices of its draught cask ale to its pubs for the fourth consecutive year. The company said the ongoing freeze was one of the main reasons for it being crowned Best Tenanted Pub Company at the Publican Awards last month.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 13:15
Main courses are the least interesting of the dishes we try. Smoked saddle of Cumbrian lamb with spiced onion sauce is an unremarkable lump of protein that doesn't taste remotely smoky and is served well-done instead of the requested medium.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 12:48
The De Vere Group is selling two hotels to Britannia Hotels for around £20m. It has exchanged contracts on the five-star, 140-bedroom Royal Bath in Bournemouth and the 192-bedroom De Vere Daresbury Park in Warrington.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 11:29
There is overwhelming support for a reduction in VAT from 20% to 5% on hotel accommodation, attractions and meals away from home among hospitality professionals. That's the key finding of a survey by the British Hospitality Association (BHA) of more than 200 of its members.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 11:11
Low-alcohol beers appear to be gaining in popularity in the off-trade, thanks in part to lower duty on beers below 2.8% abv, with sales at one supermarket rising by almost 50%. Figures from educational beer website www.beergenie.co.uk showed that Tesco had seen low-alcohol beer sales increase by 47%.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 10:54
René Redzepi, from the world-famous Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, is to run a two-week pop-up at London's Claridge's hotel this summer. The two-Michelin-starred chef, whose restaurant has twice been named the best in the world, will run A Taste of Noma at Claridge's from 28 July to 6 August.
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 10:36
Greene King saw like-for-like sales in its managed pubs division rise 4.5% in the past 13 weeks, driven once again by strong food sales which rose 6.7% over the same period. In a trading update this morning, ahead of its preliminary results for the 52 weeks to 29 April...
Posted: 23 April 2012 | 10:36
Celebrity chef James Martin is to launch his new range of in-flight meals for Thomas Cook Airlines on 1 May. The BBC1 Saturday Kitchen host has developed a menu for the airline featuring traditional dishes such as bacon and eggs for breakfast, and slow-braised British beef with baby onions and herb dumplings for dinner .
Posted: 20 April 2012 | 17:40
Innovative new dining concepts will be the key to the hospitality sector's success in weathering the recession over the next few years, according to food service analyst Horizons. The insight came from Horizons' annual briefing earlier this week.
Posted: 20 April 2012 | 17:24
Lindley Venue Catering will continue running the Starbucks outlet at Pride Park, Derby County FC's ground, after its multimillion-pound contract was extended for five years. The specialist sports stadia catering division of the Lindley Group announced the contract extension alongside plans to expand the operation.
Posted: 20 April 2012 | 17:02
Vietnamese restaurant chain Pho is to open its seventh restaurant after acquiring a site in east London. The group, led by Stephen and Juliette Wall, has taken over the former S&M Café in Spitalfields. The 85-cover restaurant is set to open in late June.
Posted: 20 April 2012 | 15:13
Q Hotels intends to sell four hotels for around £55m-£60m, ahead of plans to refinance the business: the 54-bedroom Aldwark Manor Golf & Spa hotel, near York; the 100-bedroom Bridgewood Manor hotel in Chatham, Kent; the 102-bedroom Stratford hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon; and the 146-bedroom Park Royal hotel, near Warrington, Cheshire.
Posted: 20 April 2012 | 14:56
De Vere Village hotels has introduced a trial of a new superior room type at three of its 26 hotels. Known as UpperDeck, the rooms - unveiled this week at Chester St Davids, Solihull and Swansea - are the first major initiative from Robert Cook...
Posted: 20 April 2012 | 13:43
The Savoy Educational Trust has announced it is to sponsor nine scholarships worth £3,000 each at the Edge Hotel School. The scholarships will be spread over three intakes at the UK's first hotel school run in a fully operational hotel, starting with students enrolling in June, July and September 2012.
Posted: 20 April 2012 | 12:28
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