Oyster supplier and restaurateur Robin Hancock has criticised the wider-press for taking the risks associated with eating raw or lightly cooked oysters 'out of proportion'.
The World Chocolate Masters is, by a considerable margin, the world’s most important competition for chocolatiers and pastry chefs. Organised for the fourth time by Cacao Barry, Callebaut and Carma, the competition sees 20 or so contestants work unaided...
New York pizza concept and cocktail lounge Brooklyn Bite is set to hit the UK having secured its first site in London’s Chelsea, with plans to open several more London sites.
Restaurants offering discounts to diners are set to remain popular this Christmas with 71 per cent of diners saying they intend to use them to get money off meals out during the festive season.
Catering equipment manufacturer Sammic has launched a new three-model range of highly durable, heavy-duty vegetable preparation machines available to hotels, restaurants, fast food outlets, pubs and clubs.
With the launch of a brand new feature, People on the Move, BigHospitality rounds up the latest appointments in the hospitality industry. This month sees key appointments at hotels, restaurants and bars including FJB Hotels Group, DoubleTree by Hilton,...
Chancellor George Osborne has offered help to small and medium-size businesses (SME) in his autumn statement, which also promises to relax red tape around health and safety and make it easier to take on apprentices.
Fred Sirieix, general manager at Galvin at Windows restaurant, and Simon Vincent, Hilton Worldwide’s president for Europe, are stepping in to the boxing ring to take on a former champion to fight for a work apprenticeship scheme and charity.
Hilton has claimed it will create an extra 1,500 jobs in the industry by 2014 with the opening of 20 new hotels expected to happen in the next two years.
Travelodge has announced plans to develop seven new hotels alongside supermarket developments and pub companies as part of an ‘aggressive growth strategy.’
Richard Muir, the owner of Edinburgh restaurant Café Fish, has bought Livebait in Manchester days after the restaurant’s former owner Paramount Restaurant Group went into administration.
Roadside restaurant chain Little Chef is to roll out a completely new range of internal and external signage across all of its 162 sites over the next four years.
Chef Martin Wishart and hoteliers Sir Rocco Forte and Richard Solomons are the members of the hospitality industry who have been awarded honorary degrees by universities this week.
Following the recent revelations that the Government is to inject £1bn of new funding into a new scheme to tackle youth unemployment, leading hospitality industry bodies have given BigHospitality their thoughts on how it could affect the sector.
The numbers of young entrepreneurs starting up businesses in the hospitality industry is on the increase, according to a recent report, which defined the sector as ‘vulnerable’ due to short-term operating challenges.
The Eden Hotel Collection has bought von Essen’s The Mount Somerset country house hotel, the second von Essen hotel to be bought by the company in a month.
Master Beer Sommelier Mark Stroobandt believes restaurants across the UK ‘aren’t giving beer the respect it deserves’ and has given his top tips of beer and food matching to increase a business's footfall.
Workplace product specialist Slingsby has invested in a new road salt distribution centre and bagging plant, in an effort to meet the demand from the hospitality sector over winter.
Malmaison and Hotel du Vin chief executive Robert Cook has claimed that restaurants and pubs should be applying similar business approaches and sales techniques to those used in his hotels if they want to increase profits.
Contract caterer Compass has reduced the contents of its salt sachets by 25 per cent, as part of a government drive to improve the food on offer to the nation.
The first of four London restaurants owned by the Biagio Group has been sold, as part of a sell off by the group following the retirement of owner Biagio Caroleo.
Laura Marlow was last month appointed Christmas co-ordinator at the London Marriott hotel County Hall. Handling everything from festive family lunches to bespoke packages, corporate events and private parties, her new role marks a return to the events...
Raymond Blanc’s Brasserie Bar Co has bought the eight restaurants in the Chez Gerard chain in a deal believed to be worth £9m, BigHospitality understands.
Restaurants, hotels, pubs and bars from across the UK including Altitude 360, Playboy London, Sandman Signature Hotel and The Beach Bistro tell BigHospitality about special events they're running to attract more customers.
The Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA) has announced the nominees for its ‘Chef of the Year’ award, ahead of its annual awards ceremony for the UK’s curry house industry in London next weekend.
The British pub industry is to adopt legally-binding reforms to how they manage the relationship between pub companies and tenants, avoiding the government’s threat of statutory regulation.
London hotels had the worst month of the year in October, suffering a 0.7 per cent decline in Revenue per available room (RevPAR) and a year-on-year room-occupancy drop of 2.4 per cent.
Byron, the rapidly-expanding hamburger chain, has been voted the Best Overall Restaurant Chain of 2011 at the third annual R200 Awards run by Restaurant magazine.
A Bristol restaurant claiming to be the “UK’s largest restaurant” is preparing to open its doors next week, ahead of a planned nationwide roll-out of its brand.
The Horn of Plenty hotel near Tavistock, Devon has appointed Scott Paton as head chef at the hotel’s 2 AA rosette restaurant, in an effort to regain its Michelin star rating.
‘Unscrupulous’ corporate hospitality suppliers are seeking to cash in the UK’s ‘Golden Decade of Sport’ by mis-selling packages to unsuspecting businesses, a corporate hospitality company has warned.
Birmingham’s iconic and futuristic-looking leisure venue The Cube is set to welcome the addition of the Laurent Perrier lounge, a new £150,000 skyline Champagne bar adjoined to Marco Pierre White’s new restaurant.
Bed, bath and table linen supplier Richard Haworth has launched Optima, a new bed linen that uses never-before-used technology to benefit hotels and their guests.
Dishonest guests are using review site TripAdvisor to try and ‘blackmail’ hotel owners into giving them free upgrades and refunds, according to reports today.
London hotel prices in November 2011 have risen 33 per cent in the past year to £177 per night, making the UK capital one of the main drivers for European hotel price recovery, online booking service Trivago reported today.
Richard Caring, chairman of Caprice Holdings which manages several West End restaurants including The Ivy and Scott’s, has slammed Westminster City Council’s (WCC) decision to extend car parking charges in the area to midnight Monday to Saturday.
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), the managed pub company, has seen sales rise by 4.9 per cent in 2011 to £1.76bn, boosted by an increase in food sales by 7.8 per cent.
You’ve found your dream job and have bagged yourself an interview, but failing to make the right first impression on the day can halt your job application in its tracks.
The hotel industry is honing in on an opportunity to tap into the lucrative Chinese tourism market, as representatives from four UK hotel brands join VisitBritain on a key trip to China.
The vast majority of UK hoteliers believe that customers will change the way they book hotels in 2012, with mobile technologies seen as the future of hotel reservations.
