Over a third (33.7%) of UK diners reveal they’ve failed to turn up to their table booking without informing the restaurant at some point in their life. However, data from OpenTable finds that restaurant goers are less likely to no-show if they have ...

The number of restaurants in Scotland going bust last year increased by 86.3% according to new analysis of the sector by leading accountants and business advisers French Duncan LLP. The firm has analysed official Insolvency Service statistics and found that ...

The UK is set to spend over £990m celebrating Valentine’s Day this year – the average person will spend £28.60 on a gift for their partner A romantic meal and a weekend away top the polls for the best way ...

By Tom Weaver, CEO of Flyt It’s fair to say it hasn’t been a brilliant year for the restaurant industry. Jamie’s Italian kicked off 2018 by announcing the closure of 12 restaurants. Shortly after, fellow Italian restaurant chain Strada said ...

Cumbria’s Askham Hall is celebrating today’s announcement that it joins an elite group of restaurants with a 3 AA rosette rating. The AA says that it only gives this high-level rating “to a handful of establishments” where its inspectors have ...

While the restaurant sector featured heavily in the news during 2018, independent and smaller operators can be cautiously optimistic as we enter 2019, as innovation, new concepts and technology come to the fore, strengthening the sector as a whole, according ...

Restaurant group Brasserie Bar Co, the 36-strong group behind Brasserie Blanc and the White Brasserie Company, has become the latest hospitality group to announce it is to pay for its 591 non-British EU employees to apply for ‘settled-status’ in the ...

The government is seeking views on its plans to restrict promotions of food and drink products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) by location and by price. According to government research regular overconsumption of a relatively small number of ...

Concerns are being raised over the health of high street giant Pizza Express. The popular Italian eatery is owned by Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital, however conerns are mounting over how it will repay £650million of debt over the next ...

Pub group Young’s has confirmed it is to pay over £100,000 to cover the cost of settled status applications for its employees who are EU nationals. The group, which has 1,800 members of staff from non-UK EU countries, will pay ...