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A London community eco café has been thrown a lifeline to continue operating for another year after a successful fundraising effort. A campaign by the FoodCycle Café in Haringey, powered by crowdfunding website Peoplefund.it and supported by celebrities, MPs and Twitter, reached its £5,000 target this week...
Posted: 07 February 2012 | 17:20
Pub and casual dining groups have welcomed plans from retail guru Mary Portas to strengthen the high street, as part of her report on the issue, published today. But they warned that restaurants and pubs should not be forgotten in the equation. Portas's recommendations included: improve the management of high streets with new "town teams"...
Posted: 13 December 2011 | 17:12
Pizza delivery firm Domino's has opened two new stores in a week, creating up to 60 jobs, and has another planned to open in Birmingham later this month. The company has opened stores in Brackley and Gloucester, each of which is expected to create 25-30 jobs.
Posted: 12 December 2011 | 17:34
US fast food giant Chipotle has recently opened its second UK store in Baker Street. Neil Gerrard talks to Chipotle's lead restaurateur in the UK, Jacob Sumner.
Posted: 05 December 2011 | 17:20
British consumers are still going out to eat and drink, in some cases even more so than before, despite the challenging economic conditions. That's the finding from the latest Taste of the Nation survey conducted by deloitte and BDRC Continental.
Posted: 02 December 2011 | 10:58
The planning system with regard to hot food takeaway stifles job creation, says Andrew Emmerson, business development director at Domino's Pizza
Posted: 01 December 2011 | 14:43
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
A New York style pizza restaurant and cocktail lounge is set to launch in London's Chelsea next January as the first of a planned chain. Brooklyn Bite will be the first UK site for US restaurateur, Ilias Nathanail, who owned and operated seven restaurants in Washington DC...
Posted: 25 November 2011 | 15:03
Former MasterChef winner Thomasina Miers was on hand to open the Plaza, a new development of restaurants at the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. Jamie Oliver's Jamie's Italian is among the 11 restaurant brands, six of which are new to Bluewater...
Posted: 11 November 2011 | 10:31
UK restaurants and pubs could be approaching a "tipping point" on the issue of displaying nutritional information - including calorific content - on menus, as it emerged that two-thirds of diners want to be better informed before ordering food.
Posted: 17 October 2011 | 12:49
Pizza delivery firm Domino's saw its like-for-like sales in the UK increase by 4.1% in the 13 weeks to 25 September 2011 thanks in part to strong growth...
Posted: 28 September 2011 | 11:24
Takeaway pizza chain Domino's has partnered with Virgin Wines club in a bid to broaden its appeal to customers with an upmarket dining offer. Discounts...
Posted: 21 September 2011 | 10:47
Online feedback - both positive and negative - can be invaluable training material for delivering high standards of customer service. Denise Howard explains how to embrace these new communication channels
Posted: 14 September 2011 | 14:09
It seems there are few aspects of modern life in which politicians and medical professionals are content not to meddle. But the hospitality sector must experience more than its fair share of interference. In this week alone, we have seen three debates over how much the Government should regulate areas directly affecting the industry.
Posted: 14 September 2011 | 10:24
Fast-food chain McDonald's will start introducing calorie information to menus throughout all of its 1,200 UK restaurants, the UK Department of Health has announced. McDonald's move is a result of its commitment to the calorie labelling pledge as part of the Responsibility Deal.
Posted: 05 September 2011 | 10:27
Proposals to introduce a fat tax on unhealthy foods to address the UK's mounting obesity crisis have come under fire from industry figures and suppliers. Last week, a series of articles published in medical journal the Lancet predicted that over the next 20 years...
Posted: 01 September 2011 | 12:07
In this week's Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine...
How James and Caroline Parsons at the Nothe Tavern in Weymouth are preparing for the spike in trade that next year's Olympic sailing events will bring...
Posted: 24 August 2011 | 17:06
Upmarket mozzarella bar Obikà is set to open a new site in Canary Wharf, its second in London. Obikà, which has restaurants in Rome, Milan and Turin in Italy...
Posted: 18 August 2011 | 12:31
Takeaway pizza chain Domino's has launched a new 'gourmet' range of pizzas to appeal to customers who want a lighter meal. The three Italian-style pizzas served on thin crust dough are...
Posted: 15 August 2011 | 14:36
Calorie labelling on menus does little to deter customers from choosing more fattening options, research in New York has found. Only a minority of people, about one in six, pays attention to calorie information on menus when eating at fast-food outlets such as McDonald's or KFC...
Posted: 27 July 2011 | 11:53
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