This week's top news stories include Ping Pong scrapping service charge in favour of a discretionary 15% ‘brand charge’, and sustainable restaurant brand Native taking on the former Pensons site.
Pizza Pilgrims co-founder Thom Elliot chats about the group’s journey to B Corp status, and how he hopes to use it to build a better business for the future.
The latest round of rail strikes, which are set to begin today (5 April), are set to cost the hospitality sector a further £387m in lost sales, according to UKHospitality.
Siblings Kirk and Keeley Haworth will launch the long-awaited first bricks and mortar site for their plant-based restaurant concept Plates in London’s Shoreditch this summer.
Siblings Euan MacDonald and Mel Culross have launched a restaurant and bar offering a broadly South East Asian-inspired menu close to Brighton seafront within the site that was most recently home to Really Happy Chicken.
London-based dim sum chain Ping Pong has scrapped service charge and is replacing it with a discretionary 15% ‘brand charge’ to fund wage rises for all of its restaurant teams.
The chef behind Balkan bakery Mystic Burek in London's Sydenham, who's publishing her debut cookbook, Doma, this week, reveals her signature dish and chats about her first industry job.
Hospitality food price inflation remains more than double the rate seen in the retail sector despite steady easing over the last year, the latest CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index reveals.
Hospitality entrepreneur Andrew Fishwick is to lead a new acquisition and investment vehicle that bills itself as ‘the antithesis of private equity’ and is focused on growing multi-site dining brands.
Bill’s is trialling a new more bar-orientated sub brand that will offer a wider variety of sharing dishes alongside draft beers and more hot drinks options.
Londoners will be able to try the ‘world’s best pizza’ for the first time thanks to a partnership between Neapolitan pizza restaurant group Fatto a Mano and Master Pizzaiolo Franco Pepe.
Revolution Bars has had its shares temporarily suspended from the AIM index of the London Stock Exchange after being ‘unable’ to publish its interim results last week.
This week's most read news stories include Dishoom taking its Permit Room spin-off to Cambridge and the return of Simon Rogan's seasonal on-farm dining experience.
Boxpark is focusing on local operators for its upcoming Liverpool site with its opening line-up including Crazy Pedro’s, Yoki Social Table, Pukht and a new concept from the founders of Maray.
The co-founder of Brighton restaurant Dilsk on Piedmont-based winemaker Chiara Boschis, Pieropan’s La Rocca and the unusual structure of her wine list.
The executive chef at London-based pizza restaurant group Crust Bros on working in a bakery as a teenager, customers demanding pineapple on pizza, and learning English from Gino D'Acampo.
Former Hélène Darroze at The Connaught chef Andrea Granzarolo is to lead the kitchen of new fine dining restaurant in London’s Fitzrovia that celebrates the staple Italian rice dish risotto.
