To help restaurateurs save money and the planet, free workshops are available from the LDA Being energy efficient and minimising waste is not just about benefiting the environment, it is also a great way to save restaurateurs money and improve ...
Knowing about good food and having great presentation skills simply isn't enough if you're thinking about jacking in the day job to become a restaurateur say first-timers You're sociable. You give dinner parties. You have ‘mine ...
If you reckon museum food is tired and boring, think again. Forward-thinking operators are dusting off its image and upping the takings A top-name chef and museum food isn't a traditional pairing. Usually, those unfortunate enough to be struck by...
Isn't it amazing how you can print off 100 copies of the menu and yet, halfway through lunchtime, they're all creased, covered in mucky pawprints and drizzled with red wine – and that's if you can find them. We like the solution ...
A Central London Employment Tribunal has ruled that money paid to employees through a separate tronc payroll does count as earnings that can be used to make up restaurant employees' pay to the National Minimum Wage
Brand extensions of restaurant food can be a lucrative sector to get into, but only if it matches the reputation of your business ;You cannot bottle the experience, but you can ensure that when the customer uses the products at home they are of ...
Birmingham butcher Walter Smith has won 2007 Supreme Champion at the Great Taste Awards, with its Free-range Pork Pie. Other winners included Andrew Jones, West Yorkshire, with Figit Pie; En Place Foods, Ireland, with Castle Leslie Balsamic Reduction...
Charles Campion's London Restaurant Guide 2008 has been released featuring more than 400 London venues visited and reviewed by the food writer. At the book launch this month, Campion handed out tongue-incheek awards, where the hottest food in ...
September is proving to be a good month for chefs winning doctorates. For this month two restaurateurs/ celebrity chefs, have already been awarded honorary degrees in the first half of the month. Ken Hom has received an honorary doctorate from Oxford...
The Olive Branch & Beech House in Clipsham, Rutland, has won Michelin Pub of the Year 2008 in Michelin's newly released Eating Out in Pubs 2008 guide. ;The No1 spot can only go to a pub with star quality – that extra ingredient you ...
The shortlist for the restaurant category in this year's RSPCA Good Business Awards have been announced. They are Cubana, London SE1, Iglu in Edinburgh, Leon (branches across London), McDonald's, Moshi Moshi and The Swan Inn at Inkpen, ...
Time Out has announced its shortlist for the London Eating and Drinking Awards 2007. The awards, now in their 18th year have 10 categories including the new Best British Restaurant, Best British Traiteur and Best Coffee Bar. Time Out’s ...
At around this time each year, since around about 2004, I, along with my colleagues at Restaurant, have been forced to pause, scratch my chins and magic up a list of candidates for The Lifetime Achievement Award. Given out in April each year as part ..
Chez Bruce in Wandsworth was rated London’s top destination for food and named Londoner’s Favourite Restaurant for the third consecutive year in a survey for the Harden’s London Restaurants 2008 guide. Restaurant Gordon Ramsay came ..
Ed’s Easy Diner has announced plans to franchise its brand. Founded in 1987 by Barry Margolis, who opened Ed’s in Soho, the company now has sites in Bluewater, Trocadero and Covent Garden. Despite the fact that Ed’s has always ...
Bowmark Capital, backed by the Royal Bank of Scotland, has bought the Las Iguanas Latin American restaurants for £27m. William Baxter, Corporate Finance Director at BDO Stoy Hayward, which advised Bowmark on the sale said, “The private ...
Greene King pub giant has snapped up south-east England based chain Loch Fyne Restaurants for £68m. This was funded by Greene King’s existing debt facilities. The company announed plans to double the number of Loch Fyne sites, of which ...
Gourmet Holdings has installed two ex- Ask directors in its management team in a bid to transform losses into profits. Salvatore Diliberto is the new Chief Executive while Neil Martin Blows and James Rhodes are Chairman and Non Executive Director ...
Tragus mid-market chain operator is launching a new restaurant concept in BAA’s £4.3bn Heathrow Terminal 5 in March 2008. Huxley’s Bar & Kitchen will serve British food such as Kedgeree, Steak and Kidney Pudding, Spotted Dick ...
Last month it was reported that in Manhattan, Pearl Oyster Bar Owner Rebecca Charles is suing her former Sous Chef, now her business rival, alleging that he has copied “each and every element” of her restaurant – from the grey paint .
Any doubts over La Petite Maison opening in London have vanished in a flood of praise Arjun Waney smiles the smile of a multi-millionaire restaurateur and financier whose new London venture La Petite Maison (;more or less a bit of fun;) has ...
Restaurateurs who have reduced their staff’s working hours or temporarily laid off employees because of the recent floods (or other unheralded situations) should be aware of the legal implications, according to commercial law firm Wedlake Bell. .
The End of Summer Ball in Berkeley Square, organised by music mogul Vince Power, is taking place on September 27 in aid of the Prince’s Trust. The theme for this year’s event is quintessential Britishness with a marquee designed around ...
London's contender's announced for 16th annual awards. Time Out has announced its nominations for its 17th annual Eating and Drinking Awards, with the winners to be announced at a ceremony at Roast in Borough Market on September 18. The ten...
The Finalists. After hours of poring over the sackloads of entries that landed on our doormat, the judging panel, comprised of The Craft Guild of Chefs and Restaurant magazine, have selected the 2006 Best Dishes finalists, and they are: BURGER • .
Brick Lane's sixth Banglatown International Curry Festival is taking place from September 10-24 to coincide with the Brick Lane Festival. There will be music and street entertainment. The launch will feature the Curry Chef of the Year ...
Mean Fiddler founder Vince Power has bought three gastro bars as sites for his bar and club group, according to property agents Christie & Co, who handled the sale. Power bought three out of five Camel Bars in London: in Victoria, ...
UK winemakers have worked hard to attain a standard worthy of inclusion on restaurant wine lists. So, in a business that's gone potty for locally sourced produce, why is English wine still the exception rather than the norm? We live in a world ...
Bank Restaurant Group has announced a 21 per cent increase in profits for the six months ended April 30. Bank, which bought the Zinc Bar and Grill chain for £1.5m in December 2005, saw profit before interest, taxation, depreciation and ...
Regent Inns has bought 31 Old Orleans restaurants from Punch Taverns for £26million. Of the estate, 27 are short leasehold. The cash proceeds from the sale will be used to reduce debt. Chief Executive of Punch Taverns, Giles Thorley, said, ...
Measuring customer satisfaction. One thing restaurants cannot do, no matter how hard they try, is force people to come in and eat. The competition between restaurants, particularly in busy cities, is fierce, and often, restaurants are a luxury that ...
It may be the worst part of any waiter's job, but everyone profits from a properly celebrated birthday. Emptying bins, polishing glasses and cleaning ashtrays; of all the worst waiting tasks, there's one that knocks them all into a cocked ...
You've got until October 1 to make sure that you comply with new laws against age discrimination. With the new Age Discrimination legislation coming into play on October 1, now is the time for restaurateurs to make sure they fully understand the...
