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Friday Five: The week's top news

Friday Five: The week's top news

By James McAllister

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.

Government extends Jobs Retention Scheme cut-off date

Government extends Jobs Retention Scheme cut-off date

By Restaurant

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.

Commercial restaurant tenants under lockdown: five questions answered Coronavirus

United We Stand

Commercial tenants under lockdown: five questions answered

By Antony Phillips and Stewart Perry

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...

Pret A Manger to reopen 10 sites in the capital

Pret to reopen 10 sites in the capital

By James McAllister

Pret A Manger is to reopen 10 of its London stores from tomorrow (16 April), following requests from a number of NHS workers.

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United we stand

Feed the NHS campaign hits £1m target

By James McAllister

A crowdfund campaign to support NHS staff, which is partly spearheaded by healthy fast food chain Leon, has reached its £1m target.

The Lowdown Big Zuu's Big Eats and Coronavirus cooking TV shows Jamie Oliver Keep Cooking and Carry On

The Lowdown: Big Zuu's Big Eats

By James McAllister

London-based grime artist Big Zuu, whose only professional experience in the kitchen was working the grill in a Nando’s for six months, is launching his own cookery TV show.

Martin Williams and David Haimes sign up to All Together

Hospitality pros sign up to pro bono mentoring scheme

By Joe Lutrario

Rare Restaurants CEO Martin Williams and former Obikà and Itsu boss David Haimes have teamed up with a group of thirty cross-sector leaders to create ‘All Together’, which offers ‘pro bono’ mentoring and advice for company founders and CEO’s affected...

Coronavirus job retention scheme portal set to go live on April 20

JRS portal set to go live on April 20

By James McAllister

The HMRC has confirmed that the portal for making claims under the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS) will open on 20 April.

UKH and CPL launch online training platform

UKH and CPL launch online training platform

By Georgia Cronin

UK Hospitality has launched an online training platform in partnership with CPL Learning to provide access to learning, wellbeing and personal development resources to furloughed employees.

How I Got Here with ROBATA Soho founder Sonny Huang

How I Got Here: Sonny Huang

By James McAllister

Sonny Huang is the founder of contemporary Japanese restaurant ROBATA in Soho.

St John Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver America

On the road with St John

By Joel Porter

Last month St John’s Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver embarked on a tour of the US ahead of its plans to open a restaurant stateside. We tagged along to eat bone marrow, drink 'Fergronis' and gauge America's appetite for the nose-to-tail...

Read the April edition of Restaurant magazine online

Read the April edition of Restaurant magazine online

By Restaurant magazine

The April edition of Restaurant magazine, featuring Luke Selby and his brothers taking on Evelyn's Table at The Blue Posts, Gail's Bakery at 15, and Luke French's Sheffield restaurant Joro is now available to read online.

Gaucho CEO Martin Williams on Gaucho reboot Charlotte Street

Cowboy re-builders: Gaucho’s ambitious reboot

By Joe Lutrario

Martin Williams is back in the saddle at Gaucho leading an ambitious redesign and repositioning project that – all going to plan – will help the 25-year-old Argentine beef specialist appeal to the next generation of diners.