Friday wrap
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As is written in pop folklore: In the navy, Yes, you can sail the seven seas. In the navy, Yes, you can put your mind at ease. Good news then for contract caterer Charlton House, which has won a deal with Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, home of the Royal Navy.
Posted: 24 April 2009 | 17:08
While the expected bloodbath of restaurants in the first few months hasn't really materialised, there are signs that the recession is beginning to bite.
Posted: 17 April 2009 | 14:38
A muted reaction to the temporary reprieve for the hospitality industry on business tax, and the news this week that the Government is not planning to introduce minimum alcohol pricing into the market.
Posted: 03 April 2009 | 00:00
If you'd had a flutter and backed Compass Group to win the race to become sole supplier to Jockey Club Racecourses, you’d be smiling as much as the contract caterer’s management undoubtedly are at the moment.
Posted: 20 March 2009 | 14:32
I got the poison, I got the remedy, I got the pulsating rhythmical remedy. No such certainties from Heston Blumenthal unfortunately, with mystery continuing to surround the food scare that led to the closure of the Fat Duck last month.
Posted: 13 March 2009 | 16:47
Not one to cower in the corner, Wozza has hit back at claims by his banker Lloyds that he lied about why four of his six restaurants are now in administration.
Posted: 20 February 2009 | 16:03
We're really not used to it but news broke yesterday that the new Maze restaurant by Gordon Ramsay Holdings in South Africa is to open ahead of schedule. Fancy that.
Posted: 13 February 2009 | 16:52
What a year. You can read about it in our review of the year 2008, it’s fair to say there’s been a lot happening with the apparent end for now of the boom times and the looming recession.
Posted: 19 December 2008 | 13:42
Two wrongs don't make a right. After all, an 18% cut in funding and a 40% reduction in staff numbers at VisitBritain (VB) ahead of the London Olympics seems strange to say the least.
Posted: 07 November 2008 | 16:46
Life, like the global financial markets is a rollercoaster and there have been plenty of ups and downs this week within hospitality.
Posted: 17 October 2008 | 16:50
Jamie Oliver is worried about Germany's love of dumplings while Pizza Express is no doubt concerned that it’s got protestors camped out on its doorstep (again).
Posted: 18 April 2008 | 18:00
Gordon Ramsay may have bought himself his own chef academy recently but for those already in the industry aspiring to great things time is running out to enter the Craft Guild of Chefs Graduate awards. So chop, chop.
Posted: 11 April 2008 | 17:57
Proving you can’t have your American Pie and eat it, news this week that far from Cherish a new London boozer the Material Girl Madonna pretty much said Justify My Love and has denied that she has anything to do with Scottish & Newcastle’s Punch Bowl. Don’t preach; someone’s in trouble deep.
Posted: 07 March 2008 | 18:00
It’s enough to make you sick. Well the legal bods in the long running case involving a Spanish hotel and UK tour operator certainly thought so, and have won a £2.5m payout for 1,000 affected holiday makers.
Posted: 15 February 2008 | 18:00
Something old, something new this week. Old, or more fairly well-established are our Acorn awards, which celebrate 22 years in 2008.
Posted: 08 February 2008 | 18:00
The darling of the pub trade had to concede that betting all the family silverware on a property deal, which was in the balance due to the credit crunch, might not have been the best idea. It wrote down £274m of profit as a result.
Posted: 01 February 2008 | 18:00
Unless you live in a Galaxy far, far away, you can’t have missed the annual circus that is the award of the coveted Michelin stars.
Posted: 25 January 2008 | 18:00
Although the meaning of life may well be 42, you no doubt have other questions you’d like an answer to as well.
Posted: 18 January 2008 | 18:00
You spin me right round baby, right round; like a record, baby, right round, round, round.
Posted: 11 January 2008 | 17:00
What do an urn of ashes, a pet Persian cat called Princess, a blue glass eye and a six foot by six foot remote controlled helicopter have in common?
Posted: 04 January 2008 | 18:00
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