Friday Wrap: A round-up of the week's hospitality news

Happy with the new Gambling Act? Don’t bet on it.

Hospitality representatives have attacked the “preposterous” fees that operators will have to pay to license their premises.

Also taking a gamble, according to the marketing experts, is Conran Restaurants, which has renamed as D&D London after last year’s takeover.

While the Walnut Tree Inn near Abergavenny closed has closed its doors putting its future in doubt, former Ma Potter’s boss John Gater is certain his lies in Coal.

A green age? Well maybe on the plate.

Burger chain from yesteryear, Wimpy, is set to be “re-energised” by new owners Famous Brands.

Hopefully their efforts will go under the radar with the Prince of Wales who had a pop at the Big Mac this week while on an official tour at a Diabetes Centre in Abu Dhabi.

Be-speckled meaty man Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has launched his own crusade against “bullying” supermarkets.

Every little helps.

The BBC’s Saturday Kitchen felt the heat itself this week as it became embroiled in the TV phone-in scandal that sprung into life via Channel 4’s Richard & Judy a few weeks back.

And while The Old Course hotel in St Andrews became Scottish Hotel of the year, as the industry at large said a fond farewell to one of its greats, Lord Forte, who died aged 98.