Closures
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Chef-restaurateur Richard Phillips has closed his restaurant at Chapel Down Vineyard in Kent, after Ashford Borough Council restricted the number of weddings the venue could host. The restaurant, which was run by the chef's company, Kentish Dining Rooms (KDR), for four years, shut last week.
Posted: 01 February 2012 | 16:52
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
A Chinese restaurant in Greenwich has been handed a record fine of £54,000 and its owners have been banned from running restaurants in the future after it failed to clean up its act. The Peninsula restaurant, 85 Bugsbys Way, SE10 pleaded guilty in Woolwich Crown Court to 18 breaches of food hygiene...
Posted: 23 January 2012 | 13:24
The launch of the Boutique Hotel Company, a new online reservations business and consultancy, has been abandoned after its managing director became critically ill. Jeffrey Crockett suffered a serious heart attack on 11 September 2011.
Posted: 11 January 2012 | 17:36
Roadside restaurant chain Little Chef has confirmed that it will close 67 sites and shed between 500 and 600 jobs. In a statement the company said the sites had been trading unprofitably for a number of years and their closure would allow Little Chef to focus its resources on developing its more successful restaurants.
Posted: 11 January 2012 | 12:40
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
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
Manchester-based brewer and pub company Hydes is to close its 150-year-old Queens Brewery in Moss Side ahead of a move to a new facility in the area and withdraw from the free trade market. The company said it had identified "a number of suitable premises" that met its needs for the future and would invest...
Posted: 09 January 2012 | 13:28
Leading American chef Charlie Trotter is to close his eponymous restaurant in Chicago, after 25 years in business. He will shut the award-winning 120-seat eaterie in August to embark on a world trip with his wife Rochelle and a master's degree in philosophy and political theory...
Posted: 04 January 2012 | 14:27
The original UK Harry Ramsden's restaurant is to close after 83 years in business because it is losing money. The first branch opened in Guisely, Leeds in 1928 but the fish and chips chain said it was losing money and needed a "considerable investment" before it could return to profit...
Posted: 30 November 2011 | 09:38
An award-winning restaurant in Surrey has been forced to close after the landlord increased the annual rent by 20%. The Westerly in Reigate, which won the Remy Martin Restaurant Excellence Award in 2008...
Posted: 10 November 2011 | 16:53
Mexican fast casual dining chain Chilango has closed its Meadowhall site in Sheffield. The move leaves the firm, run by former Skype executives Eric Partaker and Dan Houghton, with three sites in central London and...
Posted: 07 October 2011 | 09:19
The hotels and leisure sector saw the third highest rate of insolvencies in July, new figures released this week reveal. The latest Insolvency Index from Experian found 141 businesses in the sector were declared insolvent in July...
Posted: 25 August 2011 | 16:13
North west-based chef-restaurateur Paul Heathcote today closed his Heathcotes Grill & Bar in Clitheroe, blaming the economic climate. Heathcote, who sold the majority of his restaurant portfolio to Living Ventures last year, is now left with three restaurants.
Posted: 27 July 2011 | 17:53
Pan-Asian restaurant Cocoon in London's Piccadilly has closed and will reopen as a modern Japanese restaurant later this year. Owner the Ignite Group has shut the restaurant and will relaunch it as Senkai in September following a refurbishment.
Posted: 26 July 2011 | 12:42
Food hygiene inspectors have closed down popular Cantonese restaurant New World in London's Gerrard Square following a suspected mice infestation. Inspectors from Westminster City Council visited the premises on Thursday last week...
Posted: 18 July 2011 | 11:20
The five-star, 189-bedroom Swissôtel the Howard, London, is to close because of plans by the property's owners to redevelop the site close to Covent Garden. Managed by Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts since 2001...
Posted: 27 June 2011 | 15:16
Hunstrete House has gone into creditors voluntary liquidation after von Essen administrators pulled the plug on the failing business. The Georgian country house near Bath, owned by von Essen director Andrew Davis, had been operating as a separate company from von Essen hotels.
Posted: 03 May 2011 | 19:07
The number of bars and restaurants giving up their alcohol licences has risen by 13% over the past year. Legal information provider Sweet & Maxwell said that 5,742 licences were surrendered over the last 12 months, up from 5,102 in the previous year. In 2008, just 2,830 licences were surrendered.
Posted: 28 March 2011 | 16:19
Pub closures have slowed slightly but pubs are still shutting their doors at the rate of 25 a week across Britain. That's the warning from the British...
Posted: 16 March 2011 | 11:19
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