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Little Chef is reportedly preparing to close 70 of its restaurants and cut 600 staff. The Sun reported that company bosses would break the news to staff today.
The move would mean that more than 40% of Little Chef’s outlets would be affected.
Posted: 11 January 2012 | 09:50
Antonin Bonnet, executive chef at the Michelin-starred Greenhouse in London, is to leave the Mayfair restaurant to relocate to Paris. The French chef, who has been at the helm of the Marlon Abela Restaurant Corporation (MARC)-owned restaurant for six years, has teamed up with a "major international designer".
Posted: 10 January 2012 | 14:35
Hannah Bass, operations director at the ETM Group, has left the London pub firm to join Asian restaurant group Hakkasan. Bass, who worked at the ETM Group for five years and helped to grow the business to nine sites across the capital, has been appointed as UK director of operations at Hakkasan...
Posted: 10 January 2012 | 13:39
Insolvencies in the hospitality and leisure industry have rocketed 30% in the last quarter of 2011 compared with the last quarter of 2010. Analysis of Government insolvency statistics by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) showed that there were 375 insolvencies in the hospitality and leisure sector...
Posted: 10 January 2012 | 13:27
London restaurateur Will Ricker has teamed up with New York nightclub operator and designer Serge Becker and entrepreneur Spencer Churchill to launch a new Mexican restaurant in Soho. The 100-seat La Bodega Negra will open in February, comprising two linked locations.
Posted: 10 January 2012 | 12:21
The Restaurant Group is targeting 25-30 new openings in 2012, after it registered a 7.25% rise in turnover in 2011, along with a 3.25% rise in like-for-like sales. In a statement ahead of its full-year results, the company behind restaurant brands Garfunkel's, Chiquito and Frankie and Benny's, as well as pub brand Brunning and Price...
Posted: 10 January 2012 | 10:36
Chef Mark Greenaway is taking action against a traditionally quiet time of year by giving diners the opportunity to pay what they think their meal was worth at his eponymous Edinburgh restaurant. The promotion will start today and run until the end of the month...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 16:14
SBG Restaurants, owned by Richard Muir and William Rollason, has added its second Livebait restaurant to its portfolio, having bought the Leeds site from in-administraiton Paramount Restaurant Group. Muir and Rollason, former chairman of Paramount, made their first acquisition for their new company from Paramount in November last year.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 16:01
Wiltons restaurant in Jermyn Street, London, has announced that its long-serving oyster man has died. Patrick Flaherty died last week aged 69 as he was about to start his 50th year at Wiltons. The restaurant had planned a party to celebrate the landmark, which will now be held in his memory...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 15:11
A new seafood restaurant is to open at the Bedruthan Steps hotel on the coast of north Cornwall as a result of a partnership with the owners of the Porthminster Beach Café. Due to open in April, the restaurant will feature the best elements of seasonal, locally sourced produce with an Asian twist.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 15:07
US-based Mexican casual dining chain Chipotle has taken a lease on its fourth UK site, in London's West End. It will occupy the ground floor and basement of 92/93 St Martin's Lane. Nick Weir, a director at Shelley Sandzer, who acted on behalf of the landlord, Gascoyne Holdings, said...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 15:00
Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has apologised for what he called his “stupid and irresponsible actions” after being cautioned by police for shoplifting items from a Tesco supermarket. He was arrested after he took cheese and wine without paying for them from the store in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on Friday.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 12:17
Tax disputes between small and medium-sized business and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) could be soon be resolved more quickly and easily following the introduction of a pilot dispute resolution process for SMEs. The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)will employ independent HMRC facilitators.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 11:57
Casual-dining chain La Tasca has become the latest firm to acquire a site from in-administration Paramount, buying Brasserie Gérard in Newbury, Berkshire. La Tasca said the move was the first time the firm had hit the expansion trail in four years.
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 10:56
Orignally a single high street cafe deli in Clerkenwell, Benugo's reach has grown to include standalone restaurants, concessions in public spaces and business and industry sites and a healthy events catering business. Co-founder Ben Warner tells Janie Stamford about taking his commercial experience into the contracted world and life at the WSH board table
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 10:46
Plaza restaurants at Salford's Lowry Outlet Mall have seen like-for-like sales leap by 13% in 12 months, helped by the influx of new footfall coming from MediaCityUK, the new home of BBC North.
Posted: 06 January 2012 | 16:56
Channel 5 is looking for couples who run restaurants to participate in a new, and as-yet-unnamed TV show fronted by Marco Pierre White (pictured). The TV channel said it wanted pairs who run restaurants across the UK, from fine-dining establishments to gastropubs, cafés, bistros, hotels, curry houses and "anything in between".
Posted: 06 January 2012 | 15:55
VisitBritain has called upon UK business to invite friends, relatives and past customers from around the world to visit Britain in 2012, as part of the latest phase of the national tourism agency's 'GREAT Britain - You're Invited' marketing programme.
Posted: 06 January 2012 | 11:14
Le Gavroche is the top London restaurant, while Gidleigh Park has retained its place as the top restaurant in the rest of the UK, according to the 2012 edition of Harden's UK Restaurant Survey.
Posted: 05 January 2012 | 22:38
The biggest challenge in 2012 will be the economic uncertainty. No one knows what will happen and we're all crossing fingers that there won't be a double-dip recession. But in challenging economic times opportunities arise. As some operators struggle, sites might become available, giving young guns the chance to get in.
Posted: 05 January 2012 | 16:36
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