Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver opens first in-company restaurant with Aramark

19-Dec-2018 By Sophie Witts

The Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group has opened its first in-company restaurant, in Ireland, as part of a deal with contract caterer Aramark.

Jamie's Italian to finish repaying creditors this month

04-Oct-2018 By Sophie Witts

Jamie’s Italian expects to complete the terms of its Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA) and finish paying its creditors this month.

Jamie Oliver: "I had two hours to save Jamie's Italian"

30-Aug-2018 By Sophie Witts

Jamie Oliver had to inject almost £13m of his own savings in to his restaurant group to stop the business going under.

Jamie Oliver continues airport restaurant roll-out

27-Jun-2018 By Sophie Witts

Jamie Oliver is to open his first Deli and Pizzeria in Bahrain in partnership with food travel operator SSP.

Friday Five: The week's top news

23-Feb-2018 By Sophie Witts

We round-up the top hospitality stories you might have missed this week.

Italian Lessons: The CEO of the Jamie Oliver Group on Brexit, PR, and pizza

23-Oct-2017 By Joe Lutrario

With the demise of its Union Jacks brand and the furore over its comments about Brexit, Jamie’s Italian is taking some strong learnings into the coming years. We spoke to Simon Blagden, CEO

Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group brings in external advisor

23-Oct-2017 By Mark Wingett

Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group has brought in an external advisor to work with its new management team to help steer it through its next phase, BigHospitality's sister title MCA has learnt.

Jamie Oliver to take over Australian Jamie's Italian after franchisee went bust

04-Nov-2016 By Michelle Perrett

Jamie Oliver is set to take over the six-strong Australian-based Jamie’s Italian restaurant chain after its franchisee Keystone Group went into receivership.

Jamie Oliver apprenticeship scheme to go nationwide

24-Mar-2016 By Mark Wingett

Jamie Oliver’s flagship apprenticeship scheme is set to go nationwide with its incorporation into the high­-profile chef’s Jamie’s Italian chain, MCA has learnt.

Jamie Oliver welcomes 'profound' sugar tax

16-Mar-2016 By Sophie Witts

Jamie Oliver has welcomed the Government’s ‘bold’ move to introduce a tax on sugary drinks.

Wetherspoon boss slams Jamie Oliver over 'big brother' sugar tax

20-Oct-2015 By Sophie Witts

Jamie Oliver’s campaign for a tax on sugary drinks is ‘out of touch’ with public opinion and would cost pubs millions, Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin has warned.

Restaurants challenged to sign up to Jamie Oliver’s sugar tax

08-Sep-2015 By Sophie Witts

Campaign group Sustain has urged restaurants to follow the lead of Jamie Oliver, Leon and Abokado by introducing a 10p tax on sugary drinks.

Jamie Oliver to launch second London Barbecoa

16-Jul-2014 By Melodie Michel

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver will open his second Barbecoa restaurant in London in late 2015.

Jamie turns to trattorias as Union Jacks fails to fly

03-Jul-2013 By Mark Wingett

“I still worry that it’s all going to come tumbling down. I still feel like I’m 17 and I’ve got it all to prove. I have to pinch myself when I sit down and think about everything that’s happened to me. But I don’t get complacent about it,” so answered...

Jamie Oliver to launch smaller format Jamie's Italian Trattoria restaurants

06-Jun-2013 By Peter Ruddick

Jamie Oliver is to launch a smaller format brand extension to his Jamie's Italian restaurant concept - Jamie's Italian Trattoria will launch in Richmond next month.

Jamie's Italian revenue surges by more than 30% in 2012

04-Jun-2013 By Peter Ruddick

Jamie Oliver's chain of Italian restaurants had a successful 2012 according to the company's latest financial results, which show that revenue surged to nearly £94m last year, helping to drive a 7.5 per cent increase in net profits.

Jamie Oliver launches new restaurant concept: Jamie Oliver's Diner

13-May-2013 By Peter Ruddick

Jamie Oliver has launched Jamie Oliver's Diner, a new semi-permanent restaurant in partnership with chef Arthur Potts Dawson, in a venue on Shaftesbury Avenue.

Recession-proof? How Jamie Oliver's restaurants are dealing with the downturn

31-Oct-2012 By Peter Ruddick

In a special audio report recorded at The Restaurant Show, Jacques Dejardin, head of operations at Jamie Oliver, reveals how the group is looking to retail, takeaway and collection, event catering and possibly all-day dining to protect its restaurants...

Jamie Oliver set to open 'groundbreaking' Gatwick restaurant

28-Jun-2012 By Peter Ruddick

Jamie Oliver's Gatwick Airport restaurant, which has just opened within the North Terminal, is set to become the busiest venue in the celebrity chef's portfolio as the team reveal the challenges in opening an airside restaurant.

Jamie Oliver makes airport debut at Gatwick: Union Jacks bar, Jamie's Italian and bakery planned

14-Feb-2012 By Emma Eversham

Jamie Oliver's restaurant business will make its airport debut with the opening of a Jamie's Italian and two new concepts - a Union Jacks bar and a bakery - at Gatwick this summer.

Jamie Oliver’s missing chef Kevin Boyle found dead

24-Jan-2012 By Luke Nicholls

Kevin Boyle, one of Jamie Oliver’s original apprentices from his Fifteen restaurant, has been found dead in a garden in London.

Jamie Oliver's Union Jacks to serve flatbreads with 'Great British flavours'

20-Sep-2011 By Mark Wingett

Jamie Oliver’s new restaurant concept Union Jacks is to serve wood-fired flatbreads featuring Great British flavours, it has been revealed.

Jamie’s Italian’s Blagden claims top award

04-Mar-2011 By Mark Wingett

Simon Blagden, the man who has led the roll out of the Jamie’s Italian chain, has been singled out by his peers as the stand-out individual in the eating-out and drinking-out market.

Jamie’s Italian to calorie count menus, Oliver confirms

22-Oct-2010 By Becky Paskin

Jamie Oliver has confirmed to BigHospitality that his Jamie’s Italian restaurant chain will soon be introducing calorie information on menus across its 15 sites

Jamie's Italian extends to North West with Liverpool site

19-Mar-2010 By Emma Eversham

Jamie's Italian, the restaurant chain fronted by Jamie Oliver, is to open its 12th site in Liverpool in June

Jamie Oliver and Pizza Express 'most admired' by restaurant industry

10-Aug-2009 By Emma Eversham

150 senior restaurant executives show their admiration for the celebrity chef, the pizza chain and other emerging restaurant brands in the latest survey of the market

Jamie Oliver criticised in Panorama Dubai expose

08-Apr-2009 By Rosie Birkett

The chef has his attention turned to the plight of construction workers in Dubai after a Panorama programme exposes their squalid living conditions

Public persuaded to buy British by Oliver’s pig campaign

17-Feb-2009 By Becky Paskin

Jamie Oliver’s pig welfare campaign has prompted more than half of consumers to buy British produce despite the higher price tag

Restaurants urged to highlight pork origin on menus

30-Jan-2009 By Emma Eversham

The British Pork Executive refreshes warnings to restaurants to make it clear to diners where they source their meat from in the wake of Jamie Oliver’s latest TV campaign to champion British pork

Jamie Oliver gets Ministry of Food student Fifteen job

03-Oct-2008 By Becky Paskin

A Rotherham student gets a lucky break after helping Jamie Oliver during Ministry of Food show

Fifteen Chef Christopher Pethick Found Dead

05-Mar-2008 By Alan Lodge

One of the first trainees to sign up to Jamie Olivers chef training scheme at Fifteen in Cornwall as been discovered hanging in woodland not far from the famous restaurant.

Delia: ""I'm not a Great Chef

12-Feb-2008 By Alan Lodge

TVs original celebrity chef heaps praise on Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson while claiming that she isnt a great chef and cooking doesnt require a great amount of skill.

Oliver looks for restaurant staff

07-Feb-2008 By Alan Lodge

Jamie Oliver is in the hunt for new recruits to join him at his new Italian restaurant in Oxford, which is due to open its doors in May this year.