Successfully retaining staff in the hospitality sector remains a challenge for operators, but Italian restaurant chain PizzaExpress is celebrating holding onto one employee for more than four decades.
The Chancellor announced last week that from April 2016 all UK businesses would have to pay staff over 25 a National Living Wage of £7.20 per hour, rising to £9 per hour by 2020.
Handmade Burger Company has received a £600k cash injection from Finance Birmingham to help it fit out its soon-to-launch site at Grand Central in Birmingham and refurbish two of its existing restaurants.