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Serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson has slammed the discount culture that remains prevalent on the high street, branding Groupon as a way to attract 'hit and run' customers. The Risk Capital Partners chairman, and former chair of Channel 4 and PizzaExpress...
Posted: 08 February 2012 | 14:12
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
Aside from making your food shine, a well-balanced wine list can inject individuality and boost your bottom line. Fiona Sims explains how to ensure your list is interesting enough for diners to try something different...
Posted: 11 January 2012 | 15:42
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
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
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
Deloitte has raised concerns that some restaurant operators are becoming reliant on discount vouchers, after research in the company's Taste of the Nation report revealed that nearly 60% of consumers have used a special offer voucher when eating out.
Posted: 05 January 2012 | 12:10
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
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
Famous Belgian restaurant Chez Léon is set to come to London, with the opening of a site in the West End in January. Renowned for its moules frites and hearty Flemish classics, the London restaurant will be the first international branch of the Léon de Bruxelles franchise...
Posted: 07 December 2011 | 11:38
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
Six companies in the Chez Gerard group have gone into administration, prompting the sale of several sites to other operators. The six companies, which between them comprised 32 restaurants employing 713 people...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 16:55
The British curry industry has called on the Government to boost the restaurant sector by reducing VAT on the sector by 5%. It said that reducing VAT would boost the number of diners and head off a contraction in the curry restaurant industry...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 13:32
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
Communities secretary Eric Pickles is to launch a "curry college" to teach British workers how to perfect the art of Asian and Oriental cooking, as part of the Government's new strategy on integration, to be published soon...
Posted: 21 November 2011 | 10:40
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) is set to launch its first national awards scheme next year. The National Sustainability Awards, which will be announced on 23 January, will recognise restaurants across seven categories...
Posted: 16 November 2011 | 11:10
Restaurant group Gondola has reported an increase in sales of 4.2% to £556.2m for the year to 26 June 2011. The company, which owns the PizzaExpress, Zizzi, Ask, Byron and Kettners brands, also saw its earnings before interest, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA)...
Posted: 16 November 2011 | 10:32
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
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