UKHospitality has reacted with considerable alarm at the news that net EU migration has fallen to 100,000. UKHospitality Chief Executive Kate Nicholls said: “Yesterday’s figures are an alarming portent of possible disaster for the hospitality sector. Although net migration from ...

To celebrate 70 years of the NHS, Hallmark Hotels are offering all NHS employees free stays in 2018. The Hallmark portfolio spans across the country from the Scottish Highlands to the south coast of England, and features several idyllic manor ...

Annabel Smith and Jane Peyton, members of The British Guild of Beer Writers, have both received Lifetime Achievement accolades from the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group at its annual dinner (2018) in Westminster. Annabel Smith is a beer educator, writer, beer ...

A London chef the chef has been dismissed from his job after posting cooking videos of him mocking Asian people and their culture by using a fake accent. Shaun Beagley, who worked as a chef at Som Saa, a fashionable ...

326 soft drinks manufacturers have been hit by the sugar tax according to figures released by HMRC. The Soft Drinks Industry Levy, dubbed the “Sugar tax”  was introduced in April this years and taxes manufacturers 18p per litre produced if ...

UK consumer confidence grew by two percentage points in the second quarter of 2018, rising to -4%, the highest level recorded by the Deloitte Consumer Tracker since it started in Q3 2011. In research published today, consumer confidence benefitted from ...

Pub operator and brewer Brakspear is today reopening the doors of the Frogmill near Cheltenham – its biggest project in its 240-year history. The 16tth century inn in Shipton Oliffe, near Andoversfold, Gloucestershire, is now Brakspear’s biggest managed site and ...

At the third and final UK Hospitality Commission evidence session politicians heard from apprentices from The Ritz and Park Plaza, training providers and operators about the importance of skills based learning. Witnesses highlighted the great strides British hospitality has taken ...

CH&CO joined forces with The Prince’s Trust to give eight young people a helping hand towards a career in hospitality through the Get into Hospitality with CH&CO programme. The programme provides unemployed young people, aged 16-30, with the opportunity to ...

Restaurants and pubs face a potent cocktail of challenges from rising costs, intense competition and Brexit, CGA’s Peter Martin told the inaugural UKHospitality Conference this week, but the best brands still have plenty of potential for growth. He summarised the ...