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Receiver KPMG hopes to complete the sale of the four-star, 41-bedroom One Devonshire Gardens hotel in Glasgow by the end of March, along with the Paris and Edinburgh Residence hotels.
(28 February 2002 17:20:03)
Macdonald Hotels has launched a brand identity for its growing leisure club business, which is expected to contribute £6m in turnover this year.
(28 February 2002 17:06:59)
Evening trade is booming, breakfast is fairly busy yet lunchtimes are still too quiet. Managing director Stuart Campbell has decided it's time for some one-to-one marketing at Savannah. There's been no difficulty pulling in the rich and famous, however, as David Jones discovered.
(28 February 2002 16:58:47)
School-meals staff in Yorkshire's East Riding intend to fight proposed changes to their terms and conditions, unions said this week.
(28 February 2002 16:55:25)
Restaurant chain PizzaExpress has bought five restaurants for almost £4m.
(28 February 2002 16:53:14)
Groupe Chez Gérard has sold its 73-seat Brasserie St Quentin in London's Knightsbridge for £330,000.
(28 February 2002 16:51:34)
A US hotel group has introduced specially fitted bedrooms for unusually tall guests.
(28 February 2002 16:49:27)
Morocco Millennium - Millennium & Copthorne Hotels has been awarded management contracts to operate two five-star hotels in Morocco.
(28 February 2002 16:47:34)
Mezzanine Group, owner and operator of Smollensky’s restaurants and London club Attica, recorded a 16.3% increase in turnover in the six months to 2 December 2001.
(28 February 2002 16:46:31)
Entrepreneur Richard Branson has officially confirmed that he has sold his majority stake in Raymond Blanc's country house hotel, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, to Orient-Express Hotels.
(28 February 2002 16:44:19)
Police in Manchester are still investigating two armed robberies at a hotel and restaurant last week.
(28 February 2002 16:42:40)
An international hotelier has returned to the college where he trained to become head of its school of hospitality.
(28 February 2002 16:41:12)
Faces & places is edited by Louise Bozec Contact her at louise.bozec@rbi.co.uk
(28 February 2002 16:39:32)
A fish restaurant chain has become the latest operator to blame last year's foot-and-mouth outbreak for a sharp fall in turnover and pre-tax profits.
(28 February 2002 16:34:18)
Table Talk is edited by Ben Walker Contact him at ben.walker@rbi.co.uk
(28 February 2002 16:32:28)
Derek Quelch, 35, has been executive head chef of the Goring hotel in London's Victoria for four years and is responsible for providing up to 350 meals a day.
(28 February 2002 16:28:41)
AUSTIN TILSLEY has been appointed sales executive with Sodexho in Edinburgh.
(28 February 2002 16:15:16)
Edinburgh hoteliers have enjoyed their best December occupancy levels in 10 years, according to the 44-strong Edinburgh Principal Hotels Association (EPHA).
(28 February 2002 16:10:10)
Hospital caterers are bemused by recent newspaper reports saying that they have been forced to print plain English translations of some of their new menus because patients do not understand what they are being offered.
(28 February 2002 16:08:35)
Steve Edwards is leaving his job as restaurant manager at the two-Michelin-starred Gidleigh Park hotel after 15 years.
(28 February 2002 16:06:23)
Investment analyst Andrea Kirkby looks at how businesses should deal with euro zone customers and suppliers.
(28 February 2002 16:04:48)
The Eton Town House hotel group opened its first hotel outside the capital last week. Ben Walker spoke to the group's founder and major shareholder, Peter Tyrie.
(28 February 2002 15:58:38)
Straight from the USA, customer relationship management is a new concept designed to make hotel guests feel more valued than ever before. Bob Gledhill reports on the latest technological tool to hit UK shores.
(28 February 2002 15:56:09)
We had that buzz of excitement at the thought of two weeks in southern Spain, with no phone, no reps calling, and none of the niggling daily problems that always seem to last longer than they should.
(28 February 2002 15:53:11)
More and more breaded products are being introduced into a packed market, so Caterer put together a Taste Test panel to try some of the latest entrants. Amanda Marcus reports.
(28 February 2002 15:50:53)
In the first of a new series profiling general managers, Sara Guild talks to the Halkin hotel's Tom Orchard.
(28 February 2002 15:40:29)
Catering Forum Young Guns is back for a second year, on the lookout for two exceptional students.
(28 February 2002 15:34:12)
Chef Anthony Demetre shares the British passion for duck, whether he's eating it or cooking it. Gaby Huddart went to west London to discover his fair ways with fowl.
(28 February 2002 15:29:58)
Refurbished after a fire, Soho's Red Fort restaurant has been transformed into a bright and elegant eaterie with a separate floor for the bar, combining European minimalism with the flavours of India. Carmen Konopka reports.
(28 February 2002 15:14:54)
The Transport & General Workers' Union (T&G) has provided two worker safety advisers for the hotel and catering business.
(28 February 2002 15:05:09)
Former Essex pub tenants Pete Dale and Laura Anderson have moved to Derbyshire's Peak District to start their own restaurant. Janet Harmer found out how they were faring.
(28 February 2002 15:03:30)
A contract catering site might not be the most obvious setting for a secret agent, but "spies" are becoming common in staff restaurants. It's not James Bond exactly, but the highly confidential art of mystery shopping. Amanda Marcus reports.
(28 February 2002 14:57:05)
The news that the industry is to benefit from a major new Government-backed campaign to boost the number of overseas visitors to the UK - in the wake of the foot-and-mouth outbreak and the events of 11 September - is to be applauded.
(28 February 2002 14:54:12)
Is German wine still stuck in the Liebfraumilch rut? Fiona Sims and a Caterer tasting panel find out.
(28 February 2002 14:05:58)
A scary development at the Consumers' Association, warns Michael Gottlieb.
(28 February 2002 13:55:09)
Rocco Forte Hotels has recruited Gerhard Schaller as general manager of its Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh.
(28 February 2002 9:19:18)
Japanese-style food continues to grow steadily in popularity, and M&J Seafoods has extended its value-added range with the introduction of two tempura-style products.
(28 February 2002 9:18:25)
A new range of café tables and chairs is available from GGI Office Furniture.
(28 February 2002 9:17:24)
Ever popular as a starter, individual chilled timbales are the latest introduction from Larderfresh.
(28 February 2002 9:16:04)
Woodland Fruit Pudding is the latest frozen individual dessert from Fairway Foodservice.
(28 February 2002 9:15:11)
A range of premium frankfurter sausages has been launched by Snowbird Foods.
(28 February 2002 9:14:40)
Kellogg's has filled a gap in its cereal range with the launch into the catering market of a luxury muesli that, it claims, has 20% more fruit and nuts than the market leader.
(28 February 2002 9:13:59)
Bernard Lambert, former chief executive of the Le Méridien hotel group, has been made chief executive of Monaco-based Société des Bains de Mer (SBM).
(28 February 2002 9:13:04)
Administrator Casson, Beckman and Partner is hoping to achieve a speedy sale of the Neat restaurant in London's Oxo Tower Wharf, which closed its doors in late January.
(27 February 2002 18:53:12)
London police are investigating allegations of theft and fraud at the high-profile Conrad Gallagher at Shaftesbury Avenue restaurant, which last week parted company with the Irish chef whose name it carried.
(27 February 2002 18:51:39)
One in four hotel and catering firms in Britain lost more than £50,000 in business because of foot-and-mouth, says a survey from Lloyds TSB.
(27 February 2002 18:47:19)
Reviving England’s health spa industry could pump an extra £650m into the economy and create 20,000 jobs, says the English Tourism Council (ETC).
(27 February 2002 18:45:58)
London may need a special quality standard for hotels because too many offer inconsistent service or are over-priced, suggests a consultation document issued by the London Development Agency.
(27 February 2002 18:40:56)
Hotels and tourist attractions in London need to be spread out more evenly across the city, the London Tourist Board (LTB) said today.
(27 February 2002 18:36:55)
Supplier of frozen Continental bake-off goods Bakehouse has added three products to its range.
(27 February 2002 18:23:30)
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