Advances in areas such as AI, robotics, the metaverse and payment technology look set to have a major impact on the restaurant space over the coming years.
The hospitality sector has recorded the fastest-rising wages in the UK over the past decade with average weekly earnings for full-time workers rising 53% between 2012 and 2022.
After years of political back-and-forth, legislation intended to ensure hospitality staff receive all the money left to them in tips by customers is now closer than ever to becoming law.
A campaign calling on restaurants to take farmed salmon off of menus has received the backing of chefs including Silo's Douglas McMaster and The Palmerston's Lloyd Morse.
Speakers from leading restaurant brands including Itsu, Burger King, Boparan Restaurant Group, Mollies, Gail's Bakery, BrewDog, and Big Table Group will speak at next month's technology conference Hostech.
Managed restaurant groups’ delivery and takeaway sales ended 2022 at twice their pre-Covid level, CGA by NielsenIQ’s latest Hospitality at Home Tracker shows.
This week's top news stories include calls for Ofgem to tackle the 'reckless behaviour’ of some energy suppliers, Gaucho's plans for 2023, and BAO's attempt to game-ify the restaurant experience.
Mounting cost pressures led to a net decline of 1,611 licensed premises in the fourth quarter of 2022, new figures show, with independent businesses bearing the brunt of the pain.
The annual inflation rate for restaurants and hotels hit a 31-year high of 11.4% last month, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Managed hospitality groups enjoyed their best December trading in three years, the latest Coffer CGA Business Tracker reveals — but sales remain well below pre-Covid levels in real terms.
Operators are capitalising on healthier eating and sustainability food trends to manage costs and inflationary pressures, according to new data from Lumina Intelligence.
Gordon Ramsay is on the hunt for a chef to take their gastronomic skills to ‘the next level’ in what he claims is the ‘world’s toughest cooking competition ever’
Our most read news stories this week include a third site for Noble Rot, the demise of Thai restaurant brand Lime Squeezy and the closure of Noma (again).
The first week of 2023 saw hospitality count the cost of recent rail strikes, business leaders recognised in the New Year’s Honours list, and multiple restaurant closures from D&D London.
The impact of the train strikes has cost the hospitality sector a total of £2.5bn in lost sales since industrial action began in June last year, according to UKHospitality.
Trade in night time hospitality businesses was down by a fifth in December compared with 2019, a poll from the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has shown.
Nearly 400 pubs 'disappeared' across England and Wales in 2022, according to analysis of official Government data by the real estate adviser Altus Group.
Eating and drinking out participation increased by +5.8 percentage points (ppts) during the 12 weeks to 27 November 2022, compared to the previous quarter, according to Lumina Intelligence.
A look back at yet another tough year for hospitality – one that saw the Coronavirus crisis replaced by a host of new challenges for the sector to contend with.
Climate justice movement Animal Rebellion has staged sit-down protests at London restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and Newcastle's House of Tides as part of a 'national day of action'.
The sad and sudden death of chef Paul Kitching, chef-patron at Edinburgh's restaurant with rooms 21212, was this week's most read story in hospitality.
January will see Apricity chef Chantelle Nicholson will launch Culinary Kids, a tasting menu for youngsters in partnership with charity School Food Matters.
A third of hospitality businesses have been forced to reduce opening hours over the Christmas period as a result of ongoing staff shortages, according to the latest Future Shock report.
Hospitality technology conference Hostech will return next year with speakers from companies including BAO, Burger King, Mollies, and Wonderland Restaurants.
Like-for-like sales at Britain’s leading managed pub, bar and restaurant groups were up 3.7% in November from the same month in 2021, according to the new Coffer CGA Business Tracker.
Hospitality charity Springboard is celebrating having supported more than 10,000 people into employment through its Springboard to 2022 initiative, which launched in October 2020.
Pubs, restaurants, and bars have seen sales rise with the beginning of the festive season, but gains remain below the 11% level of inflation, new figures show.
The imminent closure of Bao's Fitzrovia restaurant, the Kingly Court move for Budgie Montoya, and Animal Rebellion's latest restaurant antics are among this week's most read stories.
Almost a third of employees working in hospitality claim they’ve been forced to leave their job due to their manager making their work life uncomfortable and encouraging them to leave.
Barletta's closure, BrewDog's B Corp loss and the US pizza giant looking to expand its empire on these shores are among this week's top stories in hospitality.
This week's top news stories include protestors occupying Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Luke Selby joining Le Manoir as executive chef, and Hampshire’s Lime Wood Hotel being named UK's best boutique hotel.
Nearly 90% of consumers will be looking to save money when eating out next year as discretionary income falls, according to new forecasts from IGD’s Eating In Vs. Eating Out report.
More than six in ten hospitality operators are concerned about staff shortages this Christmas, according to a survey by consultancy KAM and recruitment campaign Hospitality Rising.
Combined delivery and takeaway sales saw their 11th consecutive month of year-on-year decline in October, new data shows, with growth having stalled since the end of Covid restrictions last year.
Nearly half of UK consumers expect to spend less over the festive season, compared to 22% for the same period last year, according to the latest EY Future Consumer Index.
