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Sustainability: engaging with staff and your local community

By Charlie Fryday, Heineken UK on-trade category and commercial strategy director

Charlie Fryday, Heineken UK on-trade category and commercial strategy director, discusses the important role staff and the local community play in the success of your outlet’s sustainability ambitions and how it can help boost sales.

Challenging landscape: vacancies in the sector still 72% higher than pre-pandemic levels (Credit: Getty/	Kobus Louw)

Recruitment landscape remains 'challenging'

By Rebecca Weller

Hospitality businesses are continuing to face an “incredibly challenging” recruitment landscape with vacancies in the sector still 72% higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to trade body UKHospitality (UKH).

Big job: Hand & Flowers head chef Tom De Keyser (right) began working with Tom Kerridge (left) 11 years ago (credit for TDK image: Ten Group, credit for the Hand & Flowers image: Cristian Barnett)

How Hand & Flowers chef got to the top

By Gary Lloyd

Being a chef in any hospitality setting is hard work but Tom De Keyser, who is head chef at the Hand & Flowers, is getting more rewards these days.

Future leaders: Apprentices celebrated at Westminster showcase (Getty/ andresr)

Apprentices celebrated at hospitality showcase

By Amelie Maurice-Jones

More than 200 people from the hospitality sector came together at the House of Commons, Westminster, for the seventh Hospitality Apprenticeship Showcase last week.

Safety first: Night Safe Champion Programme launched at NTIA summit (Getty/ Caiaimage/ Tom Merton)

NTIA launches Night Safe Champion Programme

By Amelie Maurice-Jones

The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and Savenightlife CIC have joined forces with Safeguarding Nightlife to launch the new Night Safe Champion Programme, which will focus on the key challenges faced in hospitality.

What's in the news 10 February

Diversification will be key to success

By Ed Bedington

The Morning Advertiser's Ed Bedington caught up with BII CEO Steve Alton to get his take on the week's news and where the sector is heading in the year ahead.

Deep dive: Fourth data looked at headcount and sales figures across pubs and restaurants during December (image: Getty/10'000 Hours)

Staff headcount down 11% against 2019

By Nikkie Thatcher

The headcount of workers in pubs and restaurants was down by more than a tenth (11%) in 2022, compared to three years ago but 5% higher compared to 2021, new data has revealed.

Driving progress: Be Inclusive Hospitality launches 2023 survey

Be Inclusive Hospitality launches 2023 survey

By Rebecca Weller

Be Inclusive Hospitality has launched its third Inside Hospitality Survey, tasked with examining the current state of affairs regarding equality, diversity and inclusion within the sector.

Next generation of talent: UKH releases new education guide to help improve recruitment and training (Credit: Getty/MarianVejcik)

UKH releases guide to improve recruitment

By Rebecca Weller

UKHospitality (UKH) has launched a new education landscape guide to help businesses understand how to further improve recruitment, training and skills development.

Rising pay: the average hospitality worker saw four times as much wage inflation as the average UK worker, the analysis reveals (image: Getty/FG Trade Latin)

Wages rise 53% in past decade

By Nikkie Thatcher

The hospitality sector has seen the fasted rising wages in the UK over the past 10 years, new research has revealed.

Inaugural report: Be Inclusive looks at its progress since inception

Be Inclusive launches report on race equity progress

By Gary Lloyd

Social enterprise Be Inclusive Hospitality has released a report about the group’s work in its bid to adopting a multi-pronged approach to accelerate race equity throughout the hospitality sector.

Quiet firing: Survey reveals management issues in workplace (Getty/ Prostock-Studio)

Operators urged to improve staff management

By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Operators have been urged to improve the performance management of staff after a new survey revealed poor treatment in the workplace was forcing staff to quit.

The Morning Advertiser Lock In Podcast episode 51

The Lock In podcast

Solving the staffing situation

By Ed Bedington

With the recruitment crisis still causing challenges for many operators, the Lock In team get to grips with staffing (not like that Heath!) and speak to a range of experts to get some practical (mostly) advice on how to handle the situation.

Staff shortages: Philip Smith outlines two approaches to addressing the recruitment issues, which are attracting school and university leavers and over 50s into the sector (image: Getty/MmeEmil)

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Solving the hospitality workforce crisis

By Philip Smith, the Lord Smith of Hindhead CBE and chief executive of the Association of Conservative Clubs

Recent figures from the Office of National Statistics show hospitality has 174,000 vacancies. These staff shortages are growing, and hospitality businesses face rising input costs, as operators compete for staff, as well as causing one in three hospitality...

Unprecedented conditions: staffing costs now a big worry for hospitality businesses (Credit: Getty/andresr)

Economic pressure holding recruitment back

By Rebecca Weller

Average regular pay rates saw the strongest growth outside of the pandemic from July to September 2022, figures released today (Tuesday 15 November) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed.

Recruitment crisis: Everyone deserves a chance to build a career (Getty/ Hispanolistic)

Pubs should keep ‘open mind’ in recruitment

By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Employers should keep an open mind when recruiting those facing homelessness, who can prove invaluable members of a team, according to founder of Only A Pavement Away.

World Menopause Day 2022: awareness and support are essential to retain skilled workers (Credit: Getty/NickyLloyd)

Menopause awareness essential to retain staff

By Rebecca Weller

The hospitality sector must do more to recognise how menopause can impact staff before it loses more skilled workers, according to Irwin Mitchell Solicitors partner Jenny Arrowsmith.

Stifling growth: despite three consecutive quarterly falls the number of job vacancies in the UK has remained at historically high levels (Credit: Getty/millann)

Unemployment levels 'stifling growth'

By Rebecca Weller

Hospitality sector's efforts to attract new employees are "beginning to pay off" but unemployment levels have continued to stifle the industry's "ability to drive growth” trade body UKHospitality (UKH) has stated.

Huge misconceptions: apprenticeships at all levels could help sector combat staffing crisis (Credit: Getty/10'000 Hours)

Training 'misconceptions' holding sector back

By Rebecca Weller

Misconceptions associated with lifelong learning have continued to hold the sector back amid ongoing staffing crisis but offering apprenticeships at multiple levels could be the key to combatting shortages, new research from HIT Training has revealed....

Reservations kept: more consumers appear to be honouring their bookings at hospitality venues (image: Getty/AlxeyPnferov)

Cost of no-shows slashed by £5bn

By Nikkie Thatcher

The likelihood of no-show diners has almost halved from 11% to 6%, reducing the cost of customers who make reservations and don’t turn up by £5bn a year in revenue, research has found.

Championing sector: Hospitality Apprenticeships Week 2022 is set to take place from Monday 3 October to Sunday 9 October (image: Getty/Peter Muller)

Sector unites for Hospitality Apprenticeships Week

By Nikkie Thatcher

A number of industry leaders have joined forces to promote this year’s Hospitality Apprenticeships Week and are calling on the wider sector to get behind the initiative.

Unemployment rates lowest level since 1974: figures show importance of hospitality sector as employer (Credit:Getty/skynesher)

ONS figures show 'importance' of sector

By Rebecca Weller

Latest unemployment figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show how “important” the hospitality sector is as an employer, according to trade body UKHospitality (UKH).

Time for change: chefs need improved technology and training to encourage creativity

Chefs need improved technology and training

By Rebecca Weller

Two fifths of catering staff believe a lack of training, technology and resources has caused low morale amongst their teams, a survey of contract catering firms across the UK has revealed.

Official data: wages have risen since January but lag behind the current rate of inflation, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics (image: Getty/KanawatTH)

Staff wages rise by 6.4% since January

By Nikkie Thatcher

The average monthly wage of a hospitality worker has increased by 6.4% since the beginning of 2022, official figures have shown.

Job vacancies: British Beer & Pub Association boss Emma McClarkin called on the Government to make it easier to recruit and retain staff (image: Getty/skynesher)

Vacancies up more than a third on 2021

By Nikkie Thatcher

Job vacancies in the hospitality sector have risen by 44,000 (34%) compared to last year despite a small fall over the past three months, according to official figures.

Sustainability credentials: operator of the Green Man in Eversholt, Bedfordshire Candice Brown has partnered with the guide

First Green Pub Guide launched

By Nikkie Thatcher

The first ever Green Pub Guide has been launched to highlight venues that are looking to be kinder to the planet.

In-depth education and training: Bluestone Academy launches hospitality apprenticeship programme (Credit: Getty/SolStock)

Bluestone Academy new training programme

By Rebecca Weller

Training facility, Bluestone Academy, has announced the launch of a new apprenticeship programme set to benefit West Wales’ tourism and hospitality sector and due to start this Autumn at Bluestone National Park Resort, in Pembrokeshire.

Fourth Hospitality Workforce Report: data shows staffing numbers near pre-pandemic levels but sector still struggling  (Credit: Getty/Hispanolistic)

Staffing number near pre-pandemic levels

By Rebecca Weller

Hospitality staffing numbers have neared pre-pandemic levels with employee headcount in pubs, bars, hotels, restaurants, and quick service restaurants (QSRs) up 21.7% compared to June 2021, the latest data from Fourth has revealed.

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