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Za Za Bazaar, the giant buffet restaurant, which launched in Bristol last month, is to open its second site, in Norwich. The new restaurant, set to launch at the city's Riverside Entertainment Centre, will have a capacity for up to 600 diners. The 25,000sq ft site is currently undergoing a £2.5m redevelopment.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 17:52
Compass Group has announced the launch of Rapport, a new specialist provider of front- and back-of-house guest services. The world's largest contract caterer said its new business division was developed in recognition of the growing demand for a tailored, premium service of this nature.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 17:39
Three of the leading green tourism organisations in the UK are joining forces to promote sustainable tourism and hospitality businesses. The Green Tourism Business Scheme, Greentraveller.co.uk and the Considerate Hoteliers Association are working together to offer benefits to each other's members.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 16:37
Macdonald Hotels & Resorts has taken over the management of the privately-owned three-star, 48-bedroom Haycock hotel in Wansford, Cambridgeshire. Situated north-west of Peterborough, the 16th-century property will operate as a Macdonald Associate Hotel and will benefit from sales, marketing and management services.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 15:35
James Durrant, the former executive chef of the Michelin-starred Maze restaurant in London, is to launch his own venture in Hampshire. Durrant, who left Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) in July 2010 after nine years with the company, has taken over the lease to the Plough Inn, an 18th-century pub, in the Test Valley village of Longparish.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 15:11
The body in charge of organising the London 2012 Olympics is to hand around 20% of the room nights it had reserved for the games back to hotels for them to offer up to other customers. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic & Paralympic Games (LOCOG) made agreements with the hotels to provide more than 40,000 rooms.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 13:28
The licensee at a pub famed for offering meals for £1 looks set to call time on the business. Tony Rabbitts is quitting the the Four Crosses on the A5 near Cannock in Staffordshire because he has been unable to make the business profitable...
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 12:38
The new owners of Cliveden, who are due to exchange and complete on their purchase of the historic country house hotel tomorrow, intend to make the property "sparkle" again. Ian and Richard Livingstone, the billionaire property developer brothers...
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 11:15
McDermott's Fish & Chips in Croydon, Surrey, has won the title of Independent Fish and Chip Restaurant of the Year Award at the National Fish & Chip Awards 2012. Owned by Sean and Tony McDermott, McDermott's received its award from chef Richard Corrigan.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 11:14
John Lanchester visits Za Za Bazaar in Bristol, Britain's biggest restaurant at nearly 1,000 covers, and finds the all-you-can-eat buffet fares well against its casual dining competitors.
Posted: 30 January 2012 | 11:01
Five Croydon schools have been selected to take part in a 12-week school food collections waste pilot scheme, with a view to possible expansion across the borough. Recycling in Croydon was stepped up last year when a domestic food-waste collection service was introduced.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 16:06
Health authorities on both sides of the border in Ireland are considering a minimum price for alcohol. The proposals were outlined at the first formal North/South conference on alcohol misuse, held in Armagh on Thursday, according to the BBC.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 15:09
Center Parcs has completed a £200,000 revamp of the corporate event space the Venue at its Sherwood Forest site. The company has invested in new facilities that include a new stage, partition walls and signage. The Venue has also undergone a refresh.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 14:51
Marston's has become the latest in the line of big companies to report positive sales over Christmas, with like-for-like sales in its managed pubs for the 16 weeks to 21 January up 5% on the previous year. Like-for-like food sales climbed 5.5% but wet sales also rose by 4.8%.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 11:05
London-based pub company and brewer Fuller, Smith & Turner has recorded a 5.1% rise in like-for-like sales among managed pubs and hotels in the nine weeks to 21 January. The performance means that for the 42 weeks up to 21 January, like-for-like sales growth stands at 4.1%.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 11:01
The search is on for the 2012 winner of the Olive Barnett Award, presented to dynamic young front-of-house staff. Supported by the Savoy Gastronomes and Springboard, the award - set up in recognition of Olive Barnett, who pioneered excellence at the Savoy - is aimed at hospitality staff under 30 years of age.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 10:18
Mint and Mustard, one of Wales's leading Indian restaurants, has appointed Pramod Nair as executive chef. Nair, who has worked for Indian restaurants in India, Norway and Iceland, joins the brigade at the Cardiff restaurant, which is one of only three restaurants in Wales with a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 09:58
Hoteliers in Liverpool are backing an initiative for all hotels in the city to offer free Wi-Fi for guests in bedrooms. The scheme, led by the Liverpool Hoteliers' Association, aims to make the city more attractive to associations, conferences and residential events. It is targeting all hotels within the city.
Posted: 27 January 2012 | 09:48
Arinza Star Hotels - owner of two hotels in Derbyshire and Lancashire - has been placed in administration. The administrator, financial advisory and investment banking firm Duff & Phelps, has appointed Legacy Hotels and Resorts to operate the two hotels.
Posted: 26 January 2012 | 18:05
Education caterer Innovate Services' recent research into packed lunches found that just 7% complied with the food-based standards for school dinners. The caterer's Lunch Box Amnesty study group also found that just under a quarter (24%) of lunch boxes analysed achieved the food-based standard.
Posted: 26 January 2012 | 15:37
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