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The Food and Drink Group has seen its turnover leap in the first six months of the year thanks to the purchase of the Henry J Beans restaurant chain last year.
(31 May 2006 17:34:00)
Hospitality businesses in England could be operating under a smoking ban from June 2007.
(31 May 2006 16:06:00)
The Franklin hotel in Knightsbridge, London is set to become the first in a small chain of boutique hotels across Europe planned by its new owner in Rome.
(31 May 2006 15:24:00)
Caffè Nero proved it still hasn’t run out of steam by publishing its 36th consecutive quarter of positive like-for-like sales growth today.
(31 May 2006 14:12:00)
The rapidly-expanding London & Edinburgh Swallow Group has acquired another property north of the border.
(30 May 2006 17:41:00)
Coventry is to get its first luxury hotel after a deal between Radisson Edwardian and developer Oakmoor Deeley.
(30 May 2006 17:22:00)
The US hotel industry had its best year in 2005, generating almost $123b (£65.3b) in revenues and $22.6b (£12b) in profits.
(30 May 2006 17:07:00)
The Hotel and Catering International Management Association (HCIMA) has added three new Hospitable Climate fact files to its portfolio of free-of-charge energy efficiency advisory documents.
(30 May 2006 17:06:00)
London hotels proved the most profitable in Europe in the three months to March 2006, according to the latest Europe HotStats survey.
(30 May 2006 16:32:00)
A hotel in the Lake District has banned any mention of football during the World Cup in an attempt to drum up business from “football widows”.
(30 May 2006 15:53:00)
Lewis Beddington has been named Nottinghamshire Young Chef of the Year.
(30 May 2006 10:43:00)
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Pub chain removing Sky over cost of football matches; Leeds restaurant changing from fine dining to a brasserie; M&C to move £286m of hotel property into investment trust and more...
(30 May 2006 10:26:00)
Area general manager for Moto, Rob Bracken has been named the 2006 Hospitable Climates Champion of the Year by the Hotel and Catering International Management Association (HCIMA).
(26 May 2006 17:37:00)
Growing interest in Eastern Europe as a tourist destination has dramatically boosted the hotel investment market in the region, according to property agent, Jones Lang LaSalle.
(26 May 2006 17:20:00)
The Scottish Executive is avoiding involvement in any decisions over planning regulations for outside structures to accommodate smokers, despite calls for more guidance from the Scottish Beer and Pub Association (SBPA).
(26 May 2006 16:40:00)
Orient-Express Hotels is to purchase a 100% interest in a luxury hotel and villa complex in Thailand’s Koh Samui.
(26 May 2006 16:20:00)
Two UK hostels are the first businesses in the UK to be awarded a top European environmental accolade.
(26 May 2006 15:05:00)
Worldwide electronic hotel revenue continued to grow in the first quarter of 2006, according to research from TravelClick, with the travel agent channel dominating.
(26 May 2006 14:41:00)
FishWorks signed contacts on its 12th acquisition on 25 May, just days after buying restaurant number 11.
(26 May 2006 12:07:00)
Weaker consumer confidence, higher energy and employment costs and the risks presented by the impending smoking ban have not impeded growth in any of Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries’ trading divisions, the company’s interim results reveal.
(26 May 2006 11:51:00)
Executive pay in the hospitality and leisure sector has rocketed over the past five years, outstripping average company profit growth and ordinary employees' pay, according to a new report.
(25 May 2006 16:58:00)
Spirit Group, the food-led managed pub operator, has put the world-famous Rogano seafood restaurant in Glasgow on the market for more than £5.95m.
(25 May 2006 15:46:00)
Buoyant demand for eating out from UK consumers has helped pub operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) record continued growth in the first half of the year.
(25 May 2006 14:14:00)
Employers can now avoid paying national insurance (NI) altogether by paying staff wages wholly out of tips, according to HM Revenue & Customs' latest interpretation of gratuities and tronc.
(25 May 2006 14:14:00)
Caterers this week branded new Government nutritional standards for schools meals "unachievable" without more cash.
(25 May 2006 12:27:00)
Pan-Asian dim sum restaurant chain Dim T is set to open up to five more restaurants this year, Caterer has learnt.
(25 May 2006 12:27:00)
Essential news from around the world, including: UAE capital to gain another hotel; Middle East hotels see massive boost in sales; Pillow mints to be replaced by yoga videos; Fairmont sale completed; German hotels set for kick off
(25 May 2006 11:48:00)
One of Europe’s leading resort developers and operators has snapped up the Hustyns hotel and holiday cottage resort in North Cornwall for £10.5m through property agent Savills.
(25 May 2006 10:12:00)
Robert Gilpin is the new owner of North Yorkshire’s Hare and Hounds village inn.
(25 May 2006 10:10:00)
The Loch Tay Highland Lodges and Equestrian Centre in Perthshire has been sold off an asking price of £2.75m to Rupert Barratt from Twickenham.
(25 May 2006 10:09:00)
First-time pub buyers Tony and Tracey Wilkins have bought the Lion freehouse in the village of West Somerton in Norfolk.
(25 May 2006 10:08:00)
James and Sara Evans have snapped up a leading three-star hotel in North Cornwall’s Poldark country, so-called after the novels of Winston Graham that are set in the area.
(25 May 2006 10:06:00)
Chun Kong, owner of the Cantonese Mayflower restaurant in Cheltenham, plans to replicate its format in Cirencester on the site of the former Polo Canteen.
(25 May 2006 10:04:00)
The Beulah House hotel in a residential area of Thornton Heath in Surrey has been sold after 20 years under the same ownership.
(25 May 2006 10:03:00)
Pub managers Chris and Shirley Cooke have bought the Racehorse country inn and restaurant in the Cambridgeshire village of Catworth.
(25 May 2006 9:58:00)
The Lattendales residential centre for wellbeing offers a rare opportunity to develop a country hotel in the highly-desirable Lake District area of Cumbria.
(25 May 2006 9:55:00)
London hotels boosted revenue per available room (revpar) by 16.9% in the week ending 21 May, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.
(25 May 2006 9:53:00)
Scottish hotels increased revenue per available room (revpar) by 10.8% during the month of April.
(25 May 2006 9:52:00)
London restaurateur Claudio Pulze is to open his 16th London restaurant in Mayfair this autumn.
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
My husband and I stayed in a large, corporate hotel at the weekend and have to say how disappointed we were by the standards of such a high-profile international group.
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
A bed tax? Nice one, Tony. Great idea! Get more money into the local government coffers - that's the ticket.
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
I write in response to your article "Students steer clear of contract catering" (Caterer, 18 May, page 12). Along with four other food service providers in the Kent area, we have been working with Thanet College for the past three years.
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
With regard to the editorial piece by James Garner and the story by Tom Bill on 3% of students entering contracting (Caterer, 18 May), they have made the classic mistake of taking a statistic in isolation and have oversensationalised one aspect of a greater issue.
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
I think it is outrageous that the AA insists on charging a fee of £40 a year just for maintaining a hyperlink from their website to ours.
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
Hot on the heels of Bethnal Green's Redchurch Bar & Café and Green & Red, this quintessential English pub opened in north London this week. The bar stocks more than 40 bottled beers as well as 40 malt whiskies.
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
I own a hotel with what I consider to be a good quality restaurant. But I'm a few miles out of town and suffer from very poor diner numbers. How do I improve my turnover?
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
The UK's leading gourmet pie company has taken over the long-standing Burger King site in Heathrow's Terminal 1. It's the group's fifth outlet in five years, and promises the usual range of quality pies, including the upcoming World Cup specials.
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
Hotel industry consultant Melvin Gold explores the impact of holiday periods on hotel trading
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
The team behind Brecon's Felin Fach Griffin, former AA restaurant of the year for Wales, has revitalised this old roadside inn. The dining pub with rooms limits wine mark-ups to £10 a bottle and there's nothing at more than £20.
(25 May 2006 0:00:00)
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