All the latest news for pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels in the UK hospitality sector and licensed on-trade industry.
As London stirs back to life, a new wave of job cuts at hotels indicates that many of the city’s accommodation businesses continue to reel from the fallout of the coronavirus.
Read more...The COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing lockdown has led to the United Kingdom’s first recession in 11 years, with hospitality being the ‘worst hit, according
Read more...British diners took advantage of the Chancellor’s “eat out to help out” scheme and ate more than 10.5 million meals last week as part of a new Government plan to boost the UK’s hospitality sector, particularly pubs and restaurants after months of lockdown.
Read more...UKHospitality has written to the Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng MP calling on the Government and Ofgem to investigate unfair practices in the energy market.
Read more...Laura Lythall and Sam Hawkes of The Ship Inn, Canary Wharf, have taken on their first Star Pubs & Bars lease, the former The Great Eastern on Glenaffric Avenue on the Isle of Dogs
Read more...The landlord of pub in Staffordshire which has been linked to a coronavirus outbreak has admitted he was “simply not strong enough” in ensuring social distancing measures were enforced.
Read more...Consumer spending declined 2.6 percent year-on-year in July – the smallest fall since lockdown began – as Brits spent more on non-essential items.
Read more...Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has called for the government to publish evidence of Covid-19 transmission in pubs.
Read more...The Craft Guild of Chefs has not let COVID-19 stop them finding ten truly talented chefs to make the National Chef of the Year final this year.
Read more...As Britain’s managed pub, bar and restaurant groups reopened more sites last week, sales across the market also saw an improvement on previous weeks although they remain significantly below pre-COVID norms, latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker figures reveal.
Read more...The number of jobs lost across the embattled restaurant and casual dining sector so far this year is already nearly double the amount shed during the whole of 2019 with experts fearing that the worst is yet to come.
Read more...FTSE Travel & Leisure companies have issued nine profit warnings in Q2 2020, bringing the total number of warnings issued in H1 2020 to 59, according to EY’s latest Profit Warnings Report.
Read more...Grant estimated to cost £1.75bn, yet it would save 375,000 jobs and generate savings to Government of almost £7bn in the first year alone
Read more...More than half of the tickets available for the Virtual Great British Beer Festival, taking place between 11-13 September, have sold out within 24 hours of going on sale.
Read more...Rigorous precautions are satisfying more people that it is safe to visit pubs, bars and restaurants—but returning guests are becoming more demanding as they settle into the ‘new normal’ of eating and drinking out.
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