The Restaurant Group (TRG), which operates Brunning & Price pubs among its brands, has reported its Pubs division has outperformed its respective markets in life-for-like (lfl) sales, for the 52 weeks ended 1 January 2023.
Late night bar and restaurant concept Little Door & Co. has reported record-breaking Christmas trading, with overall revenue up by 116% throughout December 2022.
For the last few years, it feels like the hospitality sector has been thwarted in every direction, no matter how efficiently we run our businesses, and operating a pub/restaurant with rooms has never been harder.
ETM Group and Maven Leisure owner Ed Martin has announced anyone who works in the hospitality sector will be given 50% off food and drinks at its sites on rail strike days.
City Pub Group, which owns and operates 44 premium pubs across the south of England and Wales, has reported accelerated like-for-like (lfl) sales growth of 7.8% versus 2019 in the fourth quarter (Q4) of its financial year.
A former dentist who became a leading light in funding research into vasculitis has been honoured in what is believed to be a first for the pub industry.
Small businesses are at the “mercy” of utility providers, a south-west London-based licensee has stated after being hit with an £11,000 bill for allegedly incorrect meter readings.
Pub operator and brewer Wells & Co has raised £10,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust through an initiative that saw a £1 donation taken from each Christmas meal sold.
Customers have flooded to social media in solidarity for the Ship in Southwark, central London, which has shut permanently due to circumstances beyond its control.
Pub operator and brewer Fuller, Smith and Turner has raised £5,000 with plant-based burger sales through its partnership with cookery school and emergency food support service, Made in Hackney.
The only pub in the village of Broughton, Oxfordshire, has been forced to shut its doors until spring due to the cost-of-living crisis, according to its owner.
Trade at gastropubs picked up in the Christmas ‘party period’ following a dire early December, but operators are now buckling down for tough months of trade.
Pub operator and brewer Wells & Co is offering free meals throughout the festive month for healthcare workers who are committed to supporting teenagers with cancer.
Community pub the Lion at Treorchy has donated £10,000 to Love Treorchy after winning the Community Hero category at the Great British Pub Awards (GBPA) 2022.
Liberation Group, the UK and Channel Islands brewer and pub operator has merged with Cirrus Inns – which runs 22 sites from south-west London across to the Cotswolds.
Admiral Taverns has lauded its acquisition of the Hawthorn pub estate in 2021 as a “transformational event for the business” as its group turnover reached £152.8m.
Business is better than ever at the Saddle Inn, Chester, Cheshire, but there’s more to running a pub than “dripping in gold” according to its licensee.
One London operator has seen cancellations mount this morning (Monday 12 December) after the parts of the country saw heavy snowfall, resulting in yellow weather warnings in a number of areas including the capital.
There will be economic storms in the new year, but entertainment packages and premium drinks could help city venues stay afloat, according to the joint owner of the Phoenix Arts Club in Soho, London.
Energy suppliers are using the hospitality industry as “piggy banks” and “profiteering” from the ongoing energy crisis, according to one Chester-based operator.
