Planning reforms that make it easier for 'unused' commercial premises to be converted into housing has left hospitality businesses 'fearing the worst', according to the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA).
Pub operators including Stay Original Company, Hippo Inns, Brewhouse & Kitchen, BrewDog and Greene King have picked up gongs at Morning Advertiser’s 2021 Publican Awards.
Fuller's is to raise around £53m through a share placing that it says will strengthen its balance sheet and liquidity position in preparation for a strong reopening.
Former restaurateur Katya Torres de la Rocha, who now runs online retailed MexGrocer, on the importance of planning ahead, and why front-of-house should be a career to aspire to.
RedCat, the investment vehicle founded by former Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand, is to buy 42 pub sites from Yates's and Slug & Lettuce operator Stonegate.
Just Eat is expanding its trial of using seaweed-coated takeaway boxes in a move that it expects to stop 30,000 plastic coated boxes from entering the waste stream.
Venue Group, the London-based company backed by Mumford & Sons founding member Ben Lovett, is to launch a new outdoor food and drink space in Borough next month.
With the prospect of turnover rents and a glut of properties on the market, there is cause for optimism among small and medium-sized restaurant businesses in 2021 and beyond.
The Government is pushing for more operators to sign-up to workplace testing following the expansion of the programme to include home testing for staff.
Tom Kerridge's Meals from Marlow food delivery charity has launched a crowdfund campaign to allow it to continue delivering free meals to key workers and people in need.
MSPs in Scotland have subsidised their own hospitality to the tune of £680,000 since the pandemic began, compared to estimated average support of £40,000 for privately-owned pubs and restaurants.
The Welsh hospitality sector has demanded clarity from the Government on when it will able to unlock, warning that the ongoing delay risks further job losses and business failures.
The return of track and trace for hospitality will give venues an opportunity to rebuild their customer databases as the sector starts to reopen, according to one industry expert.
Headline grabbing Government initiatives might have provided a short-term boost for the hospitality sector, but more genuine long-term security is now required.
Just two in five licensed premises will have space to trade from when outdoor hospitality settings begin to unlock on Monday 12 April, data from CGA and AlixPartners reveals.
The Chaine de Rotisseurs Young Professionals Awards are to make a return this year with the national finals of Young Chef and Young Sommelier of the Year competition taking place in June.
The head chef of Joanna's in London's Crystal Palace on the importance of patience, memories of his mum's cooking, and his dislike of plant-based meat alternatives.
This week's main hospitality news stories include calls to allow bar ordering from May, Time Out jettisoning its London Waterloo market, and Jamie Oliver restaurant staff receiving a compensation payout
Chinatown-based bubble waffle concept Bubblewrap, which is credited with starting the craze for the Hong Kong dessert on these shores, has unveiled plans to roll out across the UK and internationally.
Legislation that could potentially bar thousands of hospitality-adjacent businesses from accessing business rates relief has been described as 'deeply shocking'.
More than four million people have booked to visit hospitality venues in England within the first two weeks of the sector reopening for outdoor service on 12 April
MasterChef: The Professionals winner Gary Maclean will open a restaurant in Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish Marketplace when Edinburgh’s first food hall opens this summer.
Jöro's Luke French and Stacey Sherwood are to launch a new dining and drinking concept within the new G.P.O Food Hall within Liverpool’s MetQuarter development.
A street food operator in Wales is looking to mount a legal challenge against the devolved government's failure to provide the country's hospitality sector with a reopening date.
Cambridge-based vegan restaurant brand Stem & Glory is moving to a new larger site in the city’s CB1 central development having outgrown its original venue.
Prominent voices from the hospitality industry have dismissed suggestions that publicans could require guests to have a so-called 'vaccine passport' to enter their pubs as 'repressive' and 'unworkable'.
Leon has decided to exit the US market after just two years, closing its four sites across Washington DC and Virginia in order to focus on the UK and Europe.
When it launched in late 2019, Neat Burger set its sights on becoming the world’s biggest plant-based chain. Eighteen months and one pandemic later, the strategy has changed, but its plans for global domination remain undented.