All the latest business news for pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels in the UK hospitality sector and licensed on-trade.
Hotel demand held up over the summer, but consumers trying to keep cool during the heatwave pushed up utility costs and ate into profit margins, according to the RSM UK Hotels Tracker.
Read more...Beefeater has this week closed its remaining 106 UK restaurants, bringing the long-running restaurant brand to an end as parent company Whitbread presses ahead with a major restructuring of its hospitality operations.
Read more...CAMRA’s Pub Heritage Group are appealing to experienced pub owners and operators from across the UK to consider taking on the Star Inn, Netherton before the present marketing period comes to an end.
Read more...UKHospitality has said the Budget on October 28 is a ‘moment for change’ where the new Government should move away from disproportionately taxing employment.
Read more...Mayors across England could soon be handed the authority to charge visitors a new levy on overnight accommodation, under government plans aimed at giving local…
Read more...Village pub, Tafarn yr Orsaf on Ffordd Caergybi in Llanfair PG will officially reopen on Saturday 12th September following a transformational combined investment of £500,000 from experienced licensees, Pauline Nolan and Lee Male and Admiral Taverns.
Read more...Britain is facing a ‘first jobs’ crisis which is costing billions of pounds a year, a new report has revealed. Analysis by Hilton (NYSE: HLT) and WPI Economics estimates that moving one young NEET…
Read more...Mayors across England are set to gain new powers to introduce an overnight visitor levy on people staying in hotels, guesthouses, holiday lets and other…
Read more...A small pub group based in Cheshire is considering going head-to-head with Greene King, one of the largest pub companies and brewers in Britain, over an attempt by the latter to block its trade mark application.
Read more...An elegant horse-drawn carriage drew crowds as the show-stopping centrepiece of the reopening of Mayfair’s oldest surviving pub, The Coach and Horses, following a major refurbishment by independent family brewer and pub company Shepherd Neame.
Read more...Pub operator JD Wetherspoon is set to open its new pub at Manchester Airport on Tuesday 15 September – with the creation of 150 new jobs.
Read more...The Coach & Horses, located on Hyde Road, officially reopened following a transformational investment of more than £332,555. The pub is part of Proper Pubs, the community wet-led operator division of Admiral Taverns.
Read more...Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC has announced the acquisition of ten outstanding pubs from Stonegate for a total purchase price of £35.25 million.
Read more...Card spending grew by 2.1 per cent year-on-year in August, building on July’s 2.0 per cent increase, but remaining below the latest CPIH inflation rate of 3.1 per cent.
Read more...North London pub operator, Enda Murray has taken on a Star lease for The Ship on Tottenham High Road, a one-time Spurs fans’ haunt. This latest venture brings his estate to three.
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