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ISS Facility Services Healthcare has won a £100m contract to provide catering and facilities management services to the three London trusts and the Institute of Cancer Research that make up the Fulham Road Collaborative.
Posted: 10 January 2012 | 11:52
The BaxterStorey Foundation charity has been renamed the WSH Foundation to enable all businesses within the catering group to contribute funds. Established in 2009 to channel BaxterStorey's charitable fundraising, the Foundation supports local schools in establishing kitchen gardens, and donations are regularly made to other charities...
Posted: 10 January 2012 | 11:12
The Restaurant Group is targeting 25-30 new openings in 2012, after it registered a 7.25% rise in turnover in 2011, along with a 3.25% rise in like-for-like sales. In a statement ahead of its full-year results, the company behind restaurant brands Garfunkel's, Chiquito and Frankie and Benny's, as well as pub brand Brunning and Price...
Posted: 10 January 2012 | 10:36
Pub operator TLC Inns reported a strong festive period, with like-for-like sales up by 8% in December 2011. The company, founded by Steve Haslam and Jo Drain in 2006, operates six pubs and restaurants in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex and Hertfordshire.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 18:34
The nine-bedroom Ynyshir Hall country house hotel in Powys has been bought by Joan and Rob Reen, the former owners who sold the property to Von Essen Hotels in 2006. Joan Reen said she was "absolutely delighted" to have regained ownership of the property.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 16:18
Chef Mark Greenaway is taking action against a traditionally quiet time of year by giving diners the opportunity to pay what they think their meal was worth at his eponymous Edinburgh restaurant. The promotion will start today and run until the end of the month...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 16:14
SBG Restaurants, owned by Richard Muir and William Rollason, has added its second Livebait restaurant to its portfolio, having bought the Leeds site from in-administraiton Paramount Restaurant Group. Muir and Rollason, former chairman of Paramount, made their first acquisition for their new company from Paramount in November last year.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 16:01
Aramark is to cut or change around 50 jobs in its UK business in the coming months, the company announced today. The restructure will form part of plans by the caterer to reshape its field operations in a bid to "strengthen client relationship management" and eliminate inefficiencies.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 15:23
Wiltons restaurant in Jermyn Street, London, has announced that its long-serving oyster man has died. Patrick Flaherty died last week aged 69 as he was about to start his 50th year at Wiltons. The restaurant had planned a party to celebrate the landmark, which will now be held in his memory...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 15:11
A new seafood restaurant is to open at the Bedruthan Steps hotel on the coast of north Cornwall as a result of a partnership with the owners of the Porthminster Beach Café. Due to open in April, the restaurant will feature the best elements of seasonal, locally sourced produce with an Asian twist.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 15:07
US-based Mexican casual dining chain Chipotle has taken a lease on its fourth UK site, in London's West End. It will occupy the ground floor and basement of 92/93 St Martin's Lane. Nick Weir, a director at Shelley Sandzer, who acted on behalf of the landlord, Gascoyne Holdings, said...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 15:00
Novus Leisure, which operates 52 bars predominantly in London's West End and City district, said it would deliver year-on-year profit growth of 20% after a strong performance in the festive period. Novus said it saw an 18% increase in like-for-like sales from 21 November to 1 January.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 13:29
Manchester-based brewer and pub company Hydes is to close its 150-year-old Queens Brewery in Moss Side ahead of a move to a new facility in the area and withdraw from the free trade market. The company said it had identified "a number of suitable premises" that met its needs for the future and would invest...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 13:28
Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has apologised for what he called his “stupid and irresponsible actions” after being cautioned by police for shoplifting items from a Tesco supermarket. He was arrested after he took cheese and wine without paying for them from the store in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on Friday.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 12:17
CH&Co has entered into a new joint venture with high street café group Apostrophe, it was announced today. The independent catering group has acquired a 50% stake in Apostrophe, as well as a master franchise agreement that will allow CH&Co to deliver the high street brand at its...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 12:07
Tax disputes between small and medium-sized business and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) could be soon be resolved more quickly and easily following the introduction of a pilot dispute resolution process for SMEs. The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)will employ independent HMRC facilitators.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 11:57
Travelodge has announced that it will open 41 hotels with 3,610 rooms across the UK throughout 2012. The new properties, at an investment of £246m, will boost the company's estate to 537 hotels and over 39,000 rooms. They will also involve the creation of nearly 1,000 new jobs...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 11:31
Casual-dining chain La Tasca has become the latest firm to acquire a site from in-administration Paramount, buying Brasserie Gérard in Newbury, Berkshire. La Tasca said the move was the first time the firm had hit the expansion trail in four years.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 10:56
Lexington Catering has introduced calorie labelling to its Let's Energise product range as part of its efforts to support the Government's Public Health Responsibility Deal. The caterer teamed up with Tucker, nutritionist and health and wellbeing consultant at Be Happy Be Healthy...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 10:30
Plaza restaurants at Salford's Lowry Outlet Mall have seen like-for-like sales leap by 13% in 12 months, helped by the influx of new footfall coming from MediaCityUK, the new home of BBC North.
Posted: 06 January 2012 | 16:56
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