Caterer Best for Business participant the Taverners pub in Godshill on the Isle of Wight has been recommended in the Guardian’s "Guide to Summer Pub"s, which isn't bad going. For all the latest in the series see our Best for Business page.
Keeping with the pub trade both Punch Taverns and Marston's announced plans to raise additional funds and the pub groups and trade bodies held an emergency summit to make sure they present a united front in response to the recent damning Government report on the beer-tie.
The Food Standards Agency admitted that menu labelling could, after all, become compulsory as many have feared, and London hospitality businesses counted the cost of last week's Tube strike.
Best Western retained its top spot as the world’s largest hotel brand, and Orchid rescued the majority of the Bar Room Bar chain from administration.
Legacy Hotels and Resorts did much the same for Niche Hotels, while Spain’s Elena Arzak, one of Europe’s most celebrated chefs, will make her first UK appearance at the 2009 Caterer and Hotelkeeper Chef Conference in London this September.
Caterersearch revealed that Claire Clark, head pastry chef at the French Laundry in California, had left the three-Michelin-starred restaurant to return to the UK, and the Foodservice Consultants Society International appointed Jonathan Doughty as its new UK and Ireland chairman.
Eden Foodservice extended its school meals deal in Kent, and Travelodge is doing the same with its overdraft facility, building up a £100m warchest for expansion.
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Quote of the Week
"Essential services are not allowed to strike; isn't time that transport workers were included in that category as they know that they have such power to paralyse and ruin other people's livelihoods?"
Richard, Earl of Bradford, owners of Porters Restaurant in London.
By Chris Druce