By Greg Mangham, founder & CEO of Only A Pavement Away
Greg Mangham, founder & and CEO of Only A Pavement Away, explains how the hospitality industry is helping homeless people, prison leavers and veterans, into employment.
Nine in 10 recruiters (88%) say that labour shortages are one of their biggest concerns for the remainder of 2021, while skills shortages are a major concern for two in three (65%).
Following huge success in highlighting and promoting the best in the business when it comes to gastropubs and cocktail bars, the Top 50 brand is now expanding further into hospitality with the launch of the definitive guide to boutique hotels.
With the growing emphasis on tackling climate change, sports-focused pubs are being urged to lend their support to the first ever net-zero carbon football match.
In a management reshuffle at William Reed, Lorraine Hendle, managing director for retail and manufacturing which includes several brands including The Grocer, will now welcome The Morning Advertiser and Big Hospitality brands into the division.
The average spend per customer on eating out as restrictions have eased has increased by 3.9%, according to the Lumina Intelligence UK Eating Out Market Report 2021.
Increasing pressure on hospitality operators to pay the Real Living Wage (RLW) is likely to prove to be an irresistible force for those who want to employ the best staff, workforce management specialist Bizimply has predicted.
Westons Cider, the Herefordshire-based cider maker, is partnering with Molson Coors and Sky Sports to offer pubs savings of up to 50% on their Sky Sports subscription.
There are currently 117,000 vacancies in the accommodation and food service sector – up from 16,000 for the same period (May to July) in 2020, according to official figures.
