Scottish Pub Chain MacMerry 300 Goes into Administration
Scottish pub company MacMerry 300, which was was established in 2010, and owns bars across Dundee and Glasgow has gone into administration, with Blair Nimmo…
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Applications open for prestigious North East England Tourism Awards
Tourism businesses across the North East are being encouraged to enter the North East England Tourism Awards 2023 as applications which opened this week. The…
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Visit Essex Puts Essex on Gastro Map with Launch of New Food and Drink Campaign
The county’s tourism body, Visit Essex, is launching a campaign to firmly place Essex on the gastro map. Highlighting the county’s boom in Essex wine…
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Delivery and Takeaway Sales Dip Year-on-Year After Covid-19 Constraints Ease
Delivery and takeaway sales at Britain’s leading managed restaurant and pub groups are falling from the peaks of COVID-19 lockdowns, the CGA by NielsenIQ &…
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Record Staff Shortages Causing Hospitality to Lose £21bn in Trade
Staff shortages in the hospitality industry are reaching critical levels, causing nearly half (45%) of operators to cut trading hours or capacity in order to…
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Public Will Cut Out Restaurant Visits if Businesses Do Not Adapt to Rising Inflation, says GlobalData
UK restaurants have been warned that the public will “cut out “ restaurant visits if the hospitality sector does not adapt to rising inflation ….
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Pubs Regain Share of Dinner Occasions and Drive Higher Spend
According to data from Lumina Intelligence’s Eating & Drinking Out Panel, in 12 weeks ending (12WE) 15/05/2022, pubs had a 13.9% share of total dinner…
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Restaurants Risk Failing to Attract Gen Zers and Millennials if They Do Not Keep Up with Tech Revolution
Over four-fifths (84%) of Generation Z and Millennials (82%) choose to visit a restaurant with self-serve kiosks over and above those restaurants without, according to…
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Pubs Across the Fuller’s Estate Raise in Excess of £10,000 for Ukraine
Fuller, Smith & Turner, the premium pubs and hotels business, is supporting team members raising money for those impacted by the war in Ukraine by…
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Star Pubs & Bars Launches New Energy Deal to Support Licensees
Star Pubs & Bars has used its buying power to negotiate a new energy supply deal with British Gas for its licensees to help mitigate…
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Hotel Mentorship Scheme Successful for Fifth Year Running
Launched in September 2018, the innovative Mentor Scheme formed between the Manchester Hoteliers Association (MHA) and Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) paired 14 undergraduate students with…
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New Chairman for UKHospitality Scotland
A leading figure from Scotland’s hospitality sector has taken on the top role at the country’s biggest hospitality trade body. Chris Wayne-Wills, CEO of Crerar…
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BII Licensee of the Year Award 2022…and the Winner is!
The BII Licensee of the Year competition is widely regarded as the most rigorous and hard-fought award for individual licensee operators in the UK. Since…
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Airport Chaos Leaves Thousands of Brits Stranded Abroad
By James Moon, Chief Aviation Officer of aviation tech start-up – TailHail (www.tailhail.com) In a week of aviation carnage, James Moon discusses the need for…
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Are You Missing Out On Event-Led Sales?
By Simon Goddard from Vibe (www.vibe.travel) Selling travel for concert-goers and sports event attendees shouldn’t be like moving heaven and earth says Simon – and…
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