They may have coined the charming ditty Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter but heavy metal outfit Iron Maiden are, despite media reports to the contrary, not involved in Mark Fuller's forthcoming Sanctum hotel in Soho.
However given the band's taste for album names such as Killers and The Number Of The Beast and the fact that that their co-manager Andy Taylor is, would you bet against them appropriating Sanctum for their next work's title?
Although stranger things have happened, rarely are they as unexpected as arrests within UK hospitality. So the news that three former directors of Leeds-based Duchy Catering had been arrested by West Yorkshire police this week certainly caused a stir within contract catering circles.
While catering giant Compass Group came out in support of the Food Standards Agency's menu labelling this week, as well as winning the deal to cater at Ireland's new national stadium, Gordon Ramsay was forced to state that it isn't last orders for his restaurant empire, after media reports suggested the group's banker RBS was about to call in a £10m loan.
All good things come to an end though, and it appears to be exactly that for Norfolk restaurant Fishes after 35 years, as its current owners have sold it for alternative use ready to take on a new challenge.
Landlords may not even have the option of drinking to forget soon, with confirmation of just how tough things are for the UK pub market at present via research showing beer sales fell by nearly 10% in the final quarter of last year.
That equates to a remarkable 130 million fewer pints sold through the on-trade from October to December 2008, compared with the same quarter in 2007.
While pub giant Punch Taverns announced drastic surgery for its pub operations and Admiral Taverns put yet more pubs up for sale, both Mitchells & Butlers and much smaller rival Fuller's demonstrated running a pub group needn't be a recipe for diminishing returns posting comparatively good results. Greene King also bought cheer to a sector seemingly down on its luck at the moment.
And with recession comes opportunity whether it be restaurateurs branching out into event catering, Catermasters buying a majority share in the In House Catering Company or Linekers, the bar chain set up by former England striker Gary Linekers' brother, planning UK expansion.
Don’t forget, if you think you might be a Best Places to Work in Hospitality candidate now is the time to get your submission in, and we're also looking for nominations for our Acorn Awards, which is your opportunity to thank your up-and-coming staff publicly for all their hard work.
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"All you can do is keep it simple, do the best food you can and hope you get it. You can over-analyse things and go nuts trying to second guess their structure."
Martin Burge, head chef of Whatley Manor in Whitshire, says there was no big secret to picking up a second Michelin star.
By Chris Druce