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Friday Five: the week's top news

By Joe Lutrario

Our most read news stories this include the passing of Zahter head chef Esra Muslu, the possibility of a restaurant within Jamie Oliver's Essex Mansion and warnings over Pizza Hut Restaurants' financial position.

Inflation hits 40-year high of 9.4%

Inflation hits 40-year high of 9.4%

By Joe Lutrario

Inflation hit another new 40-year high in June with food and energy prices continuing to soar as the UK’s cost of living crisis continues to deepen.

Pizza Hut ‘named and shamed’ over national minimum wage error

Pizza Hut criticised over wage error

By James McAllister

Pizza Hut is among 139 companies that have been 'named and shamed' by the Government for failing to pay the minimum wage.

Pizza Hut Delivery to recruit 2,500 staff as it looks to expand following surging Coronavirus lockdown delivery takeaway sales

Pizza Hut Delivery to recruit 2,500 staff

By Restaurant

Pizza Hut Delivery is to hire 2,500 staff in a recruitment spree after its plans for rapid expansion were boosted by surging demand for takeaways during the pandemic.

Pizza Hut CVA approved with 29 restaurant closures confirmed 450 jobs at risk

Pizza Hut CVA approved with 29 closures confirmed

By James McAllister

Pizza Hut's UK dine-in franchise business is to close 29 restaurants, putting 450 jobs at risk, after its Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) was approved by creditors this afternoon (28 September).

Pizza Hut considering CVA

Pizza Hut considering CVA

By Joe Lutrario

Sky News is reporting that Pizza Hut is considering a CVA and has appointed professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal to explore a restructuring of the business.

Pizza Hut launches apprenticeship scheme

Pizza Hut launches apprenticeship scheme

By Liam Garrahan

Pizza Hut, has launched its first apprenticeship scheme which will see the company pledge 1,500 new apprenticeships across all of its restaurants over the next five years.

The restaurant at Crawley Leisure Park was one of the first sites to be redesigned

Pizza Hut to report third consecutive year of growth

By M&C Allegra Foodservice news team

Pizza Hut UK, the Rutland Partners backed group, has reported sales growth of up to 40 per cent at refurbished restaurants since its reimaging programme began, as the company prepares to report a third consecutive year of growth.

Pizza Hut is trialling a menu that uses retina recognition to determine what customers want

Pizza Hut trials ‘subconscious menu’

By Melodie Michel

Pizza Hut is trialling a ‘subconscious menu’ app that creates a customer’s perfect pizza based on the ingredients they spend the most time looking at, though the brand has “no firm plans” to roll the concept out yet.

Business Profile: Pizza Hut

Business Profile: Pizza Hut

By Joe Lutrario

One of the UK's biggest restaurant brands may have had a tricky few years, but a huge investment will increase Pizza Hut's chances in the ultra-competitive pizza space.

Since introducing HutSpace last year, Pizza Hut's staff turnover has dropped to below 50 per cent

Pizza Hut’s enterprise social network pays dividends

By Luke Nicholls

As Pizza Hut recently revealed plans for a nationwide refurbishment and restructuring programme, the group’s operations director says it actually all started with an extra investment in people, particularly with the development of an internal social network...

Pizza Hut's new design features different lighting schemes and bolder external facades

Pizza Hut reveals multi-million pound restaurant makeover

By Luke Nicholls

Pizza Hut, the Rutland Partners-backed family restaurant chain, has today announced the start of a £60m refurbishment and restructuring programme which will see over 80 of its UK sites revamped with a new, ‘interactive’ design and a more Americanised...

Collective like-for-like sales down 1.7 per cent in October, but total sales were up by 1.6 per cent

Restaurant and pub groups hit by later school half-term

By Luke Nicholls

Britain’s leading restaurant and pub groups saw collective like-for-like sales down 1.7 per cent in October compared with the same month last year, caused in part by the later school half-term holidays, according to the latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker.

YO! Sushi and Pizza Hut lend weight to calorie counting

YO! Sushi and Pizza Hut lend weight to calorie counting

By Joe Lutrario & Becky Paskin

YO! Sushi and Pizza Hut are to display calorie counts on menus across their nationwide estates, a move that suggests the branded restaurant sector is edging towards acceptance of Government recommendations on publicising nutritional information.

Pub and restaurant sales slow as Christmas approaches

Pub and restaurant sales slow as Christmas approaches

By Lorraine Heller

Pub and restaurant operators will likely face a tough trading environment as we head towards Christmas, as analysts say the latest sector sales figures reveal a challenging time ahead.