The co-founder and CEO of Grind says that fewer tourists and fewer office workers alongside health and safety restrictions could create an extremely challenging environment for hospitality businesses when the UK's lockdown lifts.
Croydon Business Improvement District (BID) has launched a campaign calling on the Government to raise the threshold on its Retail and Hospitality Grant Scheme so that more businesses can benefit.
Support for businesses hit by the Coronavirus crisis must be extended, enhanced and delivered swiftly if businesses are to recover, a House of Commons Treasury Committee has been told.
Artisan bakery chain Gail’s celebrates its 15th birthday this year. With the UK’s bakery sector continuing to expand, its co-founder is still leading from the front.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has launched a crowdfunding initiative aimed at supporting small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) across a variety of sectors including hospitality.
The chef patron of Islington restaurant 12:51 talks about how he's keeping busy while in lockdown, and relives the horror of the first time he made his girlfriend dinner at home.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has launched a website to bring together people who are looking to work on UK farms during the harvest period.
Pubs, restaurants and hotels will be among the last businesses to reopen when the Government begins relaxing its Coronavirus lockdown orders according to Michael Gove MP.
Amazon’s $575m investment in Deliveroo has provisionally been given the green light by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) after it concluded that the ingoing Coronavirus pandemic was ‘having a significant negative impact’ on the delivery company’s...
Pizza Pilgrims has reopened its flagship restaurant on Victoria’s Buckingham Palace Road in London, having had to close it last month as a result of the Coronavirus crisis.
London-centric restaurant operators Patty & Bun and Pizza Pilgrims have said they are working to expand the delivery radius of their meal kits nationwide.
The co-founder and CEO of London coffee and restaurant business Grind has warned that post lockdown restrictions could be disastrous for his and many other hospitality businesses.
As the Coronavirus crisis continues to dominate the headlines, we round-up some of the main stories regarding how it has affected the hospitality industry in the past week.
The Craft Guild of Chefs has revealed it is implementing a series of changes to its National Chef of the Year (NCOTY) programme in light of the Coronavirus crisis.
Jason Atherton has talked about the impact the Coronavirus crisis has had on his Social Company restaurant group, and the steps he’s taking to make sure it can bounce back.
Like-for-like sales in restaurants, pubs and bars plummeted by almost 60% in March as the country moved into lockdown, according to the latest data from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker show.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Hospitality and Tourism is launching an urgent inquiry to establish the best ways to support the recovery of businesses hit by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels will reman closed for at least another three weeks - and likely much longer - after the Government announced an extension to the UK’s lockdown period.
With restaurants expected to be closed for the foreseeable future, chefs and operators have begun publishing recipe tutorials showing how to make some of their signature dishes at home.
Food and drink wholesalers have written an open letter to 350,000 pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels and leisure facilities asking for help during the Coronavirus crisis.
The Government has announced an extension of the Coronavirus Jobs Retention Scheme cut-off date to include those employed up to or on 19 March - the date when the scheme was first announced.
The Michelin-starred chef is preparing thousands of meals a week at his Penarth restaurant to feed hospital workers on the front line of the Coronavirus crisis.
As the UK approaches its fifth week of lockdown, uncertainty remains for restaurant businesses in terms of dealing with their landlords, what protection they might have from the Government and what the courts might do in any disagreements. Antony Phillips...
A landmark High Court order has provided further clarity regarding how administrators should utilise the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS) for employees whose employer has entered insolvency proceedings.
