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Posted: 01 December 2011 | 16:10
Two of D&D London's most celebrated chefs are to leave their restaurants within the company, with Blueprint Café's Jeremy Lee and Launceston Place's Tristan Welch both moving on. Lee, who has been head chef at Blueprint Café for 16 years, is to join Sam and Eddie Hart's Quo Vadis in Soho.
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 15:51
The purchase of the 19-bedroom Mount Somerset in Taunton by the Eden Hotel Collection from the beleaguered Von Essen has confirmed the company's position as one of the UK's most significant portfolios of privately owned country house hotels.
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 15:25
Restaurant chains saw a 25% week-on-week spike in online reservations as a result of Wednesday's strike action, restaurant booking website Bookatable has revealed. The site said that mobile bookings also increased 23% as parents searched for last-minute offers on their phones.
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 13:14
The finalists of the Independent Fish and Chip Restaurant of the Year in the National Fish and Chip Awards 2012 have been announced. Organised by Seafish, the authority on seafood, the award recognises the best independently operated fish and chip restaurant in the UK.
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 12:59
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) is to ramp up its efforts to campaign for a reduction in VAT for hospitality, as its behind-the-scenes work with Treasury officials begins to bear fruit. The association is about to make a significant investment in the engagement of PR firm Portland.
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 12:50
Greene King's strong growth in food sales has helped increase revenue by 9% to £527.5m for the 24 weeks to 16 October 2011. Pre-tax profit was also up by 5.6% to £77.2m. The period saw Greene King acquire Capital Pub Company, and said it was on track with its strategy...
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 09:52
Harbour Hotels is to develop its first new-build property - designed to look like a super yacht - within Southampton's Ocean Village. The south coast-based company, which currently has five hotels in waterside locations in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, will join forces with MDL Developments to...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 16:51
Two West Yorkshire licensees have been fined £17,000 for showing Sky Sports programmes illegally at their premises. Angela Briscoe and Edward Geater of the Bold Privateer in Shipley, West Yorkshire were fined following a successful prosecution by the Federation Against Copyright Theft...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 15:04
Enterprise Inns has won a High Court case against the company that runs the Lord Palmerston pub in Dulwich, south east London, following a dispute over the beer tie. Enterprise took Palmerstone Associates to court, accusing the operator of...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 14:55
Miller Brands has expanded its craft beer portfolio by making St Stefanus Belgian abbey beer available to the UK market as part of a distribution agreement with the Van Steenberge brewery and the Sint Stefanus monastery...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 11:26
Marston's programme of building new pubs with a focus on food has helped deliver a 4.8% rise in revenue to £682.2m for the year to 1 October 2011, with underlying pre-tax profit up 9.4% to £80.4m...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 10:48
J&G Inns, which operates two hotels in the north of England, has fallen into administration. Its two properties, the Lord Crewe Arms hotel in Blanchland and Warkworth House hotel in Alnwick, will both be sold but will remain open.
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 10:07
The original UK Harry Ramsden's restaurant is to close after 83 years in business because it is losing money. The first branch opened in Guisely, Leeds in 1928 but the fish and chips chain said it was losing money and needed a "considerable investment" before it could return to profit...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 09:38
Contract caterers have hit back at suggestions by Jamie Oliver that standards will be allowed to slip in academies, where the nutritional guidelines are not mandatory. The celebrity chef stepped up the second wave of his school meals campaign last week...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 17:01
Six companies in the Chez Gerard group have gone into administration, prompting the sale of several sites to other operators. The six companies, which between them comprised 32 restaurants employing 713 people...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 16:55
Simon Houston, group manager Europe at BaxterStorey, has won the 2012 Acorn Scholarship. Houston, who took the title following a final at Abode Exeter yesterday, has won a scholarship valued at more than £7,000...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 16:51
Richard Muir, owner of Edinburgh's Café Fish, has bought seafood restaurant Livebait in Manchester from Paramount Restaurants. The deal marks the first for Muir's new company SBG Restaurants, which he has set up with William Rollason the former executive chairman of Paramount...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 14:56
British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) chief executive Neil Robertson is to leave the organisation after three years at the helm. Robertson will take up a role with apprenticeship provider Babcock International as director of training...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 14:45
Best Western has its first hotel on the Isle of Man for 10 years following the announcement that the four-star, 133-bedroom Palace hotel and casino in the capital Douglas has joined the sales and marketing consortium...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 14:37
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