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Restaurant chains Chez Gerard and Pizza Hut are amongst the 1,000 companies fined for employing illegal workers. Immigration officers have found almost 30 illegal workers a week although owners have been made to pay £5,000 per employee – half the maximum penalty.
Posted: 27 August 2009 | 14:34
Federal authorities are investigating the hacking of computer systems which include guests’ names and credit card information, across various Radisson Hotels & Resorts in the United States and Canada. The hotel group, whose major shareholder is US company Carlson ...
Posted: 20 August 2009 | 12:53
A man has been charged with arson with the intent to endanger life, following a fire at a Liverpool restaurant.
The blaze at the Spice City Balti House on Stanley Street began at the back of the premises on Saturday morning before quickly spreading through the four-storey building.
Posted: 13 August 2009 | 15:03
A BBC Panorama documentary will tonight show how one local council is tackling anti-social drinking at pubs and clubs. The Truth About Happy Hour visits Oldham in Lancashire where the council has introduced a series of blanket conditions on the town’s 22 town centre licensed premises ...
Posted: 10 August 2009 | 12:13
Celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli has had a court case brought against him by a former contractor thrown out by a judge. David Macbeth had been hired by Novelli to negotiate a deal with Stanley Casinos for the chef to consult on the company’s food offering. However, talks between Macbeth and Stanley ...
Posted: 10 August 2009 | 07:00
Last summer the rift between Michelin-starred chefs Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing - which ultimately left Marcus leaving Gordon Ramsay Holdings - was big news.
Posted: 07 August 2009 | 15:52
A conman who pretended to be a Michelin-trained chef with close relationships to Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay has been jailed for three-and-a-half years. Kenneth Goldsmith said he trained at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Paris but actually learned to cook in prison ...
Posted: 07 August 2009 | 10:23
A Hilton hotel front-of-house manager has been given a suspended jail sentence after pocketing more than £3,000 in cash.
Laura Chilmaid, originally from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, was the front-of-house manager at Hilton’s Olympia hotel in London. She threatened to quit after bosses wanted to drill her sealed locker open in the hunt for a missing £3,225.
Posted: 07 August 2009 | 09:00
The head chef at a Scottish football club was left unable to do his job when the club was taken over by an Italian chairman and all business was conducted in Italian, an employment tribunal heard. Andrew Park, 32, who worked for Livingstone FC, was awarded £8,000 by an employment tribunal ...
Posted: 29 July 2009 | 14:24
Catering equipment worth £10,000 has been stolen from a pizza shop in County Durham at the weekend.
Thieves stole three stainless steel work tops, mixer, an industrial grill and a Williams fridge and freezer from Willington’s Pizza Time between the hours of midnight on Friday and 3pm Saturday.
Posted: 28 July 2009 | 15:30
An Irish catering firm has become the first in the industry to be prosecuted under new electrical waste laws. The Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has only used the powers twice prior to the successful prosecution of Advance Bar and Catering Services this week.
Posted: 28 July 2009 | 10:05
A Shropshire restaurant waitress has been jailed for four months after falsely accusing the owner of the restaurant of sexually assaulting her. Emma Meredith, 28, who had worked at the Jolly Frog near Ludlow, admitted perverting the course of justice during a hearing before Worcester Crown Court.
Posted: 23 July 2009 | 12:17
A Birmingham catering firm has been shut down by environmental health officers after 44 police officers suffered food poisoning. Meal Machine was closed by Birmingham City Council under Food Hygiene regulations as a result of concerns over cleanliness and cross-contamination of foods.
Posted: 21 July 2009 | 17:02
A Cambridgeshire restaurant is facing a fine of up to £50,000 after Border Agency officials found illegal immigrants working there for the second time in a month. The Mogul restaurant, in Wisbech, was employing a 32-year-old chef and a 39-year-old waiter when investigators called ...
Posted: 17 July 2009 | 11:24
The former owners and operators of a Norwich-based restaurant have been banned from running any food business, after being found guilty of a number of serious food safety offences. Father and daughter Geoff Brooke-Smith and Nicola Lloyd, who ran the Greens restaurant in Aylsham ...
Posted: 10 July 2009 | 12:16
Don't leave me this way! All good things end dear readers and this is my last Friday Wrap as I’m off to pastures new. I hope you’ve enjoyed the show, which must go on, after all. Looks like it's most certainly been squeaky bum time for Gordon Ramsay recently, with global expansion ...
Posted: 03 July 2009 | 13:12
Restaurant operators made up the vast majority of employers fined for using illegal workers since tougher laws were introduced last year, new Home Office figures have revealed. The laws introduced in February 2008 have led to a record 233 firms being prosecuted for employing illegal immigrants ...
Posted: 30 June 2009 | 07:00
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Gunman shoots two people in Harry Morgans restaurant; Marston's investors rebel against “spurious” rights issue; Eel, pie and mash shops under threat ; Mardan Palace hotel owner attracts fury of Russian Prime Minister
Posted: 29 June 2009 | 10:26
Some hotel operators are regularly paying staff less than the national minimum wage, running the risk of heavy fines, Caterer has learnt. Sources have said that abuse of the minimum wage – currently £5.73 an hour for those aged 22 and over – is “rife” in certain areas, with salaried hotel staff ...
Posted: 18 June 2009 | 07:00
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Lloyds makes £450m loss on Admiral Tavern; Reuben brothers make £48m bid for Premium Bars and Restaurants;
Fergus Henderson learns Eritrean cooking to support refugees; Premier Inn launches price war ...
Posted: 15 June 2009 | 10:27
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