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In this week's Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine... New tricks from the Todiwalas Pervin and Cyrus Todiwala on opening their first restaurant with Hilton, 16 years at Café Spice Namasté, and how they had to fight the Home Office to stay in the UK...
Posted: 07 December 2011 | 12:29
Opening a restaurant can be the route to business success, but in too many cases it results in financial disaster. Stephen Broome offers a brief road map around the pitfalls.
Posted: 02 September 2010 | 14:55
Condé Nast, the magazine publisher whose titles include Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ, has launched a new business division aimed at starting licensed restaurants around the world. Condé Nast Restaurants, which will be based in Hong Kong...
Posted: 06 August 2010 | 12:52
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Whitbread to raise £100m through private placement; machismo eating trend that consumes live animals plans UK launch; dine in the sky experience at Edinburgh Festival and more…
Posted: 01 June 2010 | 10:29
US restaurant group Yum Brands, owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, is to relaunch its Mexican chain Taco Bell in the UK next month. The company, which will open its first Taco Bell outlet at the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex at the end of June...
Posted: 28 May 2010 | 14:17
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is branching out into the events catering market with the launch of a new company called Fabulous Feasts. Oliver has joined forces with events caterer Chilli Pepper, which will rebrand as Fabulous Feasts this month,...
Posted: 04 May 2010 | 13:21
Story of the week: Hotel, café, pub and restaurant customers all face the risk of being unceremoniously shunted off the information superhighway by a heavy-handed piece of government legislation passed hurriedly last week.
Posted: 16 April 2010 | 15:34
Three hospitality recruitment experts have joined forces to create a new firm called Troika Recruitment.
Suzie Boyd, Miranda French and Justine van Zijl, who between them have 45 years' experience in the market, concentrate on permanent, middle-to-senior management recruitment.
Posted: 12 March 2010 | 14:12
Former Michelin-starred chef John Wood aims to change hospitality recruitment with the launch of his new recruitment company. John Wood Selective Recruitment, which will run alongside John Wood Consultancy set up in 2007, intend to offer a more personal service ...
Posted: 09 March 2010 | 17:18
Sir David Michels, former group chief executive of Hilton, has joined forces with one time colleague, Hugh Taylor, to launch a new hotel asset management business. The pair already asset manage 60 Hilton and Marriott hotels across the UK, through Hilmar Hotel Management.
Posted: 01 March 2010 | 11:26
If you want to start a business, a comprehensive business plan is crucial. With Nestlé's Toque d'Or set to challenge a new group of students, we explain how to make sure your plan has the clout to take off, and what you need to cover. Rosie Birkett reports.
Posted: 29 January 2010 | 12:57
Tim Payne, head chef at Paradise by Way of Kensal Green, is leaving the west London restaurant to join forces with MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace. Wallace is setting up a greengrocer-cum-café concept in Putney together with former Elbow Room owner Justin Carter.
Posted: 04 November 2009 | 09:00
Charles Boyd, chief executive of Charlton House subsidiary Chester Boyd, has unveiled further details of his forthcoming catering venture at Northumberland House in London. Boyd has set up Hamilton Boyd to manage the catering for the state rooms at the historic building near Trafalgar Square...
Posted: 25 August 2009 | 09:30
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Dorchester Group bucks economic gloom; Scottish food-hamper firm plans café/deli chain; liver specialist calls for alcohol clamp-down; Italian minister plans commission to stop tourists being ripped off and more...
Posted: 27 July 2009 | 10:12
Charles Boyd, chief executive of Charlton House subsidiary Chester Boyd, is launching a separate catering venture early next year. Hamilton Boyd has been set up to manage the catering for the state rooms at Northumberland House near Trafalgar Square, London ...
Posted: 13 July 2009 | 08:00
Robin Hutson, the founder of Hotel du Vin, has joined forces with Michelin-starred chef Alex Aitken to launch a £30m boutique country house hotel in the heart of the New Forest, Caterersearch can reveal. Lime Wood, a 30-bedroom five-star hotel in Lyndhurst, is set to open at the end of October ...
Posted: 26 June 2009 | 13:43
Private equity group Seahold has diversified into catering with the acquisition of a restaurant and a delicatessen in its native Aberdeen. The group has acquired Max’s Restaurant and Francesa’s Delicatessen in the city’s Ashdale Drive for an undisclosed sum and set up a ...
Posted: 17 June 2009 | 08:00
Newly-formed Somerset Inns has acquired its first property, The Farmers Inn in West Hatch, Somerset.
The company has been set up by former hotelier and publican Robin Wheeler and wife Natasha to “take advantage of the reasonable prices being charged for pubs at the moment”.
Posted: 02 June 2009 | 12:44
Newly launched Mour Hotel is aiming to capitalise on the weak property market and sign up to 12 new sites in the next six months.
Posted: 10 March 2009 | 14:23
Former Michelin-starred chef Paul Kitching has unveiled details of his forthcoming restaurant in Edinburgh.
Posted: 02 February 2009 | 09:00
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