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What you should know about accepting payments from customers from abroad

25-Jan-2016 By Gino Ravaioli

Gino Ravaioli, chairman of the DCC Forum, a group of 5 international companies which works in the Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) and financial services sector, talks through the options hospitality businesses now have when taking payments from overseas...

Chilango launches £1m crowdfunding campaign to aid regional expansion

26-Oct-2015 By Emma Eversham

Mexican fast food restaurant chain Chilango is aiming to raise £1m through a second crowdfunding campaign to kickstart its regional expansion plans.

Michelin restaurants sign up to Apple Pay

16-Jul-2015 By Sophie Witts

Some of London’s top restaurants will now take mobile payments through Apple Pay.

Grind & Co hit Crowdcube target and launch mobile ordering app

15-Jul-2015 By Sophie Witts

Independent coffee and cocktail group Grind has passed its £750,000 Crowdcube target in 20 days.

Cake restaurant payment app launches crowdfunding drive

29-May-2015 By Sophie Witts

London-based restaurant payments app Cake has launched a Crowdcube campaign to raise £800,000 towards its expansion in the UK and North America.

Red Hot World Buffet embraces mobile payment

17-Feb-2015 By Carina Perkins

Red Hot World Buffet has introduced mobile payment across its seven UK restaurants.

Half of diners ready for mobile payments in restaurants

23-Oct-2014 By Melodie Michel

Over half (51 per cent) of 18 to 44-year-olds would be ready to use their mobile to speed up payment in restaurants, according to new research by CGA Peach and Zonal Retail Data Systems.

Global Payments rolls out Discover Global Network acceptance

28-Oct-2013 By Emma Eversham

Card processing provider Global Payments has rolled out its Discover Global Network acceptance to enable its UK customers to take five major international credit and debit cards. 

Scott Hunter & Maria Larsen: Career Profile

15-Mar-2013 By Luke Nicholls

This young husband and wife are a pub success story, with a knack of reinvigorating dilapidated London boozers into profitable gastropubs. The pair took over the Princess of Shoreditch in 2008, doubling sales in less than a year. They then acquired the...

Restaurants leave customers playing the waiting game

11-May-2012 By Luke Nicholls

More than half of UK diners believe that speed of payment is now a more important issue for a restaurant to address than the quality of food, with 89 per cent claiming that slow payment has ruined their evening.

Hotel services company Hotel Solutions London saved from administration by former owner

03-Apr-2012 By Emma Eversham

Hotel Solutions London Ltd, the hotel operations and service outsourcing company placed into administration last week because it could not afford to pay its debts, has been bought by its former managing director. 

Administrators to find owners for four Llangollen hotels

19-Jul-2011 By Emma Eversham

Administrators are hoping to find owners for four Llangollen Hotels after taking over the group that owned them 10 days ago.

New Pizza Express app lets diners pay bill using iPhone

17-Jun-2011 By Becky Paskin

Pizza Express has become the first UK restaurant chain to launch a ‘groundbreaking’ iPhone app that allows diners to pay their bill via their smartphone.

Hospitality leaders back government spending cuts

19-Oct-2010 By Lorraine Heller

The heads of pub, hotel and restaurant operators Whitbread and Fuller’s have joined leaders of some of the UK’s largest companies in a strong show of support for the government’s proposed spending cuts

Win a pub restaurant competition scrapped due to red tape

28-Aug-2009 By David Barros

A prize draw to win the Arbor Lights pub restaurant in Walsall was cancelled at the last minute following enquiries from the Gambling Commission

Business rate u-turn gives hospitality industry welcome break

01-Apr-2009 By Emma Eversham

Chancellor Alistair Darling puts a stop to plans to increase business rates by 5 per cent from today to help businesses meet the challenges of the current economic climate