Operations chief Charles Morgan leaves Hotel du Vin

Hotel du Vin's operations director Charles Morgan has left the company, Caterer can exclusively reveal.

Morgan, who left the hotel group in September, said: "It was a mutual agreement to part company."

He is now consulting on food and beverage operations at the Royal Lancaster hotel in London, but is also working on a new hotel project due to start in the New Year. "It's a very exciting project, but currently at a delicate stage of negotiations," he said.

Robert Cook, chief executive of Hotel du Vin and Malmaison hotels, said: "He was a great ambassador for Hotel du Vin, but we agreed it was best for him and the company to do something different."

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