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Sodexo has completed its acquisition of asset management firm Atkins, including its managing contractor and managing agent businesses. The latter will be renamed Sodexo Property Solutions and led by Andrew Wilkinson.
Posted: 06 December 2011 | 10:53
A social enterprise concept linking allotment and small farm owners with restaurants and cafés has won its founder the Bespoke Hotels' Entrepreneur of the Year award. Harriet Small's Loco idea is intended to operate through an innovative voucher scheme and a bicycle-based distribution network.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 17:00
A suit of armour, a two-piece leather suite and a 12ft model of Concorde are among some of the more unusual items that guests at Best Western hotels have taken home with them, along with the obligatory toiletries. One guest even managed to clear out an entire hotel room.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 15:13
The Blue Elephant restaurant, which opened on London's Fulham Broadway 25 years ago, is to relocate to Imperial Wharf from January 2012. The Thai restaurant will also offer a new menu, inspired by the Blue Elephant Bangkok and overseen by Nooror Somany, founder of the group.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 15:01
Parents of two infants who were hospitalised after staff at a Sheffield Toby Carvery accidentally filled their children's beakers with pipe cleaner have demanded answers from the chain's parent company, Mitchells & Butlers.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 14:44
A 16-year-old teenager who set fire to JD Wetherspoon's Great Harry pub in Woolwich, causing £3.5m of damage, has been jailed for four years. The teen, who cannot be named for legal reasons and comes from Abbey Wood, was caught on CCTV setting light to a piece of wood and then running into the pub with it.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 13:00
Morgans Hotel Group has confirmed that it has agreed to open its first Mondrian hotel in Europe, within Sea Containers House on London's South Bank, overlooking the River Thames. The 360-bedroom hotel is expected to become the sixth hotel under the cutting-edge, fantasy Mondrian brand.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 12:24
Jay Rayner says the relaunched Rib Room at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in London serves lacklustre food at extortionate prices. The Observer's food critic complains that a restaurant that in the 1960s declared its ambition was to serve the best beef in London has not aged well.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 11:47
Oxfordshire-based pub company Brakspear has spent £500,000 on its London pubs in the past 18 months, ahead of the Olympics. Although the company is best known for its pubs around Henley-on-Thames, it has 25 pubs lying within the M25, including a handful in central London areas.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 11:13
Gordon Ramsay Holdings’ (GRH) executive head chef Mark Askew is to leave the business, it was revealed this evening. He will leave the celebrity chef’s restaurant empire in January to be operations director of a pub company that he co-founded.
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 20:38
Plans for a 583-bedroom hotel close to Heathrow Airport have been given the green ahead by the London Borough of Hounslow. The plans were submitted by Squared Circle Developments after the company acquired the site from airline caterer, Gate Gourmet, in December 2009.
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 16:03
A fire which caused £6m worth of damage during a wedding reception at the 48-bedroom Peckforton Caste hotel in Tarporley, Cheshire, was started deliberately, a court has heard. The bridgegroom, Max Kay, 36, of Liverpool, admitted arson with being reckless as to whether life was endangered...
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 15:54
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into voucher website Groupon after it broke UK advertising regulations 48 times in 11 months. Groupon has been referred to the OFT by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), according to the BBC...
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 14:42
The dispersal of hospitality jobs across the country is extremely unequal, despite the fact the sector employs 2.1 million people in a broad range of occupations. That's one of the findings to come out of the recent Hospitality Employment Index from Caterer.com...
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 11:56
British consumers are still going out to eat and drink, in some cases even more so than before, despite the challenging economic conditions. That's the finding from the latest Taste of the Nation survey conducted by deloitte and BDRC Continental.
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 10:58
The licensed retail industry's professional body BII has announced the winners of its 2011 training awards, the BII NITAs, at a ceremony held at the Imperial War Museum, London, on Wednesday 30 November.
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 10:46
Sodexo has partnered with Rocket Gardens - a supplier of organic vegetable and herb plants - to give schools across the country grow-your-own kitchen gardens.
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 10:36
Veteran London chef Rowley Leigh has teamed up with cinema operator Odeon to consult on the food offer at its new boutique cinema, the Lounge, at Whiteleys shopping centre. Leigh will develop the menu for the Lounge, which will open in January.
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 18:16
Sodexo Prestige - the event hospitality and fine-dining arm of Sodexo - has won a multimillion-pound exclusive contract with Headingley Experience. Catering, hospitality and retail services will be provided for Leeds Rhinos, Leeds Carnegie and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 18:02
Thornbridge Brewery has opened a new bar, Dada, in the centre of Sheffield. It is the second new pub opening for the company in the past 12 months. Dada will feature a regularly-changing list of Thornbridge beers, including a focus on their increasing keg range and a number of world classic beers.
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 17:44
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