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

STORY OF THE WEEK: Jamie Oliver regains top spot in the Caterersearch.com 100

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been named the most powerful and influential person in the UK hospitality industry in 2010.  
 

MORE NEWS
School meal champions attack MP’s criticisms
Executive chef James Durrant leaves Maze
British Larder recipe website founder buys Suffolk pub
Searcy to roll out Champagne bars after MBO
Mike Carter becomes head chef at the Hempel's No. 35 restaurant
Firmdale reveals more about new hotel in Soho
GMV warns against extending smoking ban to pub gardens
Cook School Scotland chef-director to oversee Edinburgh’s Festival in the Sky
Ellesmere Port chef makes the finals for the National Apprenticeship Awards
Jersey Tourism gets £500,000 Government grant
Jonathan Downey targets three London sites to expand Robot bar brand
BHA celebrates its expanded reach and unveils its 2010 awards
Ireland's Great National Hotels expands in to the UK
Silvena Rowe to open restaurant in London's May Fair Hotel
Tribunal awards damages to underpaid hotel cleaners
BaxterStorey chef stabbed to death at Southend concert
Gordon Ramsay Holdings closes Devonshire pub


EDITOR'S PICKS 
Meet the four finalists in the Great British Menu 2010
Flavours of July
Bar Boulud – Menuwatch
Win a Lincat Refrigerated Display Showcase worth £1,500
Caterer releases its 100 most powerful people in hospitality list - what you do you think?
Photos from the BaxterStorey Ready Steady Cook
Photos from a masterclass with Alvin Leung from Bo Innovation 
 

 QUOTE OF THE WEEK 
"It is too early in this parliament for the customary annual address from the minister, who is here, but to be fair hasn’t quite made his mind up yet. So on your behalf I’m going to try and help him. I am after all just an hotelier; not nearly as important as a politician."
BHA president David Michels makes light of speaking in Jeremy Hunt’s slot at the association’s annual lunch