The eating and drinking out sectors are merging fast—and JD Wetherspoon is blazing the trail, the latest CGA Peach BrandTrack research reveals. The survey of 5,000 UK adults identifies the rising importance of food and drink to one another in ...

Managed pub and bar operator TCG has named bartender Andrei Slemco as its Barista of the Year after he won a company-wide coffee competition. Slemco, from Bar 38 in Portsmouth, was presented with a Nespresso machine. The contest asked TCG’s ...

The BHA’s Hospitality and Tourism Summit 2014 is the ‘Davos’ for the industry and this year sees its biggest ever line up of speakers who will meet together on 5th June at the Novotel London West to discus the future ...

Outstanding entries for the 2014 Craft Guild of Chefs Awards have been examined by a team of expert judges to reveal the nominees for 16 categories. They will now have to wait until the special awards ceremony on June 4 ...

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is contacting its members to warn them about the scale of reference fraud directed at small businesses. The FSB and BBC1’s Fake Britain cooperated on a survey of 1,800 small firms, which found nearly ...

Total beer sales down 3.1 per cent in Q1 2014 Pub beer sales down 4.2 per cent Supermarket and off-licences down 1.8 per cent The late Easter and the extreme weather at the start of the year hit quarterly beer ...

The 27th National Restaurateurs’ Dinner (NRD) took place last month at The Dorchester.  Once again, three of the industry’s leading organisations The Academy of Food & Wine Service, the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts and the Restaurant Association joined forces, ...

Hospitality industry operators are being urged to lobby their local MP for a reduction in VAT, with the help of a new template letter produced by the Jacques Borel VAT club, which is available on the website http://www.vatclubjacquesborel.co.uk/yourmp.html The sets ...

National small business group, the Forum of Private Business, is using Allergy Awareness Week (28th April–4th May) to remind small food businesses of the need to prepare for the changes to food labelling that will be extended to restaurants, delis ...

• 252 million units of alcohol in beer taken out of circulation to end of 2012 • Innovation, with new, lower-strength beers • Drinks industry on target to meet overall pledge Britain’s brewers are making good progress in delivering the reduction in ...