The inflation-busting price hikes announced by ‘the big six’ electricity and gas firms last year have hit hospitality businesses hard, with 90 per cent of restaurateurs claiming rising energy costs have forced them to reassess menu prices.
Britain's hospitality industry is benefiting from a boom in visits from affluent Middle Eastern countries, according to the latest data from VisitBritain.
Restaurateur Rebecca Mascarenhas has renewed plans to open her modern Italian trattoria concept Bibo, having secured the site of what used to be Gregg Wallace’s Wallace & Co restaurant in Putney.
Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts will open its 202-bedroom hotel complete with restaurants, bars and event spaces over 18 levels of the 72-storey Shard Building in the spring.
With 18 pubs closing every week across the UK, new research from the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has found that two of those pubs are being converted to supermarkets, despite objections from local residents.
SCA Hygiene Products UK has launched a new countertop hand towel dispenser offering a neater alternative to piles of folded towels, with slim design to minimise space.
The first of two strikes on the London Underground disrupted the journeys of millions of commuters this week, but for the capital’s restaurant and pubs, the business effects were varied, with some actually reporting an increase in trade.
The founding director of Pied à Terre and L’Autre Pied, as well as the six-month pop-up Pieds Nus – all in London – discusses front-of-house, the key to industry longevity, and his latest project, barbecue restaurant 160 in Hampstead.
Chinese investors could become ‘significant’ purchasers of UK hotels over the next three years, according to the latest forecasts from Savills World Research.
One of the UK's biggest restaurant brands may have had a tricky few years, but a huge investment will increase Pizza Hut's chances in the ultra-competitive pizza space.
Budget hotel group Sleeperz is the latest hospitality operator to sign up for the £1bn regeneration project of Dundee’s Waterfront and railway station.
Chef Ben Spalding is planning on turning his pop-up ventures No Rules and Stripped Back into 'huge brands' while continuing to find a site for a permanent restaurant that he hopes will 'change London's dining scene'.
Darwin & Wallace has taken The Frog in Clapham as the second in a series of London acquisitions for the Imbiba Partnership-backed bar and restaurant group.
Hotel housekeepers are the unsung heroes of the industry, but where would we be without them all? The Housekeeping Olympics, held last month in London, gave this labour-intensive and multi-skilled profession the recognition it deserves.
Catering equipment supplier Nisbets has added a new heated bread basket to its range to allow restaurants, hotels and pubs to provide their customers with warm bread at the table.
An Egyptian hotelier has bought the 31-bed hotel Brig y Don Hotel in Llandudno on the North Wales coast with hopes of transforming it into a 3-star holiday destination.
Luxury global hotel brand Radisson Blu will make further inroads into the UK market with the development of a new hotel in Hull and the possible addition of a new Edwardian group hotel on London’s Leicester Square.
Scottish hotel resort Crieff Hydro has announced plans to acquire two hotels from McMillan Hotels and launch a joint venture to manage four Freedom Hotels properties, adding more than 400 bedrooms and £10m of revenue to its business.
American restaurant chain TGI Friday’s is ploughing on with its expansion across the UK, having secured two new units at shopping centre developments in Glasgow and Liverpool.
Hyatt Place, the upscale select-service brand from the Hyatt Hotels Corporation, is entering the UK with the opening of a new hotel close to London Heathrow Airport next year.
As competition for good space intensifies, restaurateurs are having to become increasingly bricks and mortar-savvy, writes Joe Lutrario in the February issue of Restaurant magazine.
The UK's serviced apartment sector experienced an average occupancy rate of 80 per cent in 2013 with those based in London responsible for driving most of the growth.
Lifestyle Hospitality Group (LHG) has signed a contract with a new master franchisee to roll out its ‘East meets West’ casual dining concept Tiger Bills across London.
The government has made a U-turn on World Cup licensing, and will consult on whether to extend pub opening hours during the football tournament this summer.
Jonathan Paveley has stepped down as executive chairman of Admiral Taverns; to be replaced by John Sands as non-executive chairman, with Kevin Georgel promoted to chief executive officer.
Heston Blumenthal’s two-Michelin-starred London restaurant Dinner has shut up shop for a week following an outbreak of norovirus affecting members of staff and guests.
