Food

‘Food inflation constitutes existential threat to many firms’

12-Apr-2022 By Nikkie Thatcher

Foodservice inflation hit 10.2% in February fuelled by a myriad of challenges, according to recent data.

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Meet the Brand: Birrificio Angelo Poretti – ‘the fastest-growing Italian lager’

11-Apr-2022 By Birrificio Angelo Poretti

Nestled at the foot of the Italian Campo Dei Fiori mountains, the Birrificio Angelo Poretti brewery has been producing crisp, fresh beers for more than a century.

BrewDog to open 27 sites this year

08-Apr-2022 By Gary Lloyd

James Watt, co-founder of craft brewer and bar operator BrewDog, has revealed the business is set to open 27 new sites during 2022.

Calorie labelling rules come into force

06-Apr-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

New calorie regulations, which will bring cost pressures and an increased workload to the sector, come into force today (Wednesday 6 April), fuelling criticism from trade bodies.

Booker freezes prices to help operators for Easter

06-Apr-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Food and drink wholesaler Booker Group has frozen prices on more than 250 of its products until 31 May in a bid to help pub operators keep prices down.

publican awards 2022

Best Premium Food Offer sponsored by Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I - Liberation Group

06-Apr-2022 By The Morning Advertiser

The success of Liberation Group’s food offer in the past year, underpinned by its continuing developments and innovation across all key areas of the business, including its strong people focus, impressed the judges.

Publican Awards 2022

Best Food Offer sponsored by Guinness – Provenance Inns

05-Apr-2022 By The Morning Advertiser

North Yorkshire company Provenance has a passion for high-quality, locally-sourced fresh food in pubs at the heart of the community.

Business leaders' confidence rise but cost pressures threatens recovery

05-Apr-2022 By Rebecca Weller

Multi-site restaurant, pub, and bar leaders are six percentage points more assured about the future than last year, with 65% now confident about the next 12 months of the market, according to the latest CGA and Fourth’s Business Leaders’ Survey.

In Association with Knorr Professional - Bouillon Base

What are Bouillons and how can they help pubs?

01-Apr-2022 By The Morning Advertiser

Speed, consistency and quality are often among the most important aspects of a pub kitchen.

JDW adds 14 new dishes to menu

01-Apr-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

JD Wetherspoon (JDW) has launched a range of new meals across pubs in England Scotland and Wales, including chicken dishes, curries and healthier options.

Top 50 Gastropub the Moorcock Inn set to close early next year

31-Mar-2022 By James McAllister

The owners of the popular The Moorcock Inn in Norland, West Yorkshire, have announced they will close the business in January 2023, five years after taking it over.

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Make the most of the healthy profit opportunity available with brand-new snacking launches

28-Mar-2022 By Joanna Allen, CEO of Graze

As we all learn to live with Covid, and the return of long summer evenings are on the horizon, operators can start to look forward to the surge of customers desperate to get back into their local pub.

‘Food prices to remain high for at least the rest of 2022’

25-Mar-2022 By Nikkie Thatcher

Operators have been warned the impact of the Ukraine crisis is a long-term threat to food prices.

Publican Awards 2022

Meet the finalists: Best Premium Food Offer sponsored by Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I

24-Mar-2022 By The Morning Advertiser

The 2022 winner of the Best Premium Food offer will have impressed judges with a high-quality menu in a business that delivers a successful food offer across its estate.

Publican Awards 2022

Meet the finalists: Best Food Offer sponsored by Guinness

22-Mar-2022 By The Morning Advertiser

This year's Best Food Offer winner at the 2022 Publican Awards will be awarded to the company that delivers a successful food offer across their estate, with food a key part of the firm's total sales.

‘The Diggity Dog’ vegan hotdog wins national prize

21-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

The Diggity Dog, Shepherd Neame’s recently launched vegan hotdog, has been named Best New Menu Item in the national Menu Innovation and Development Awards (MIDAS).

Food trends feature

FEATURE: What’s hot in food trends?

21-Mar-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Most of us would like to see the end of the colder months as we, hopefully, usher in the post-peak-Covid world.

Sweet tooth: Mince pie crowned the UK’s favourite sweet pie

18-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Mince pie has been crowned the nation’s favourite sweet pie, with banoffee ranking second, according to data from Top10 Meal Deliveries.

The Lock In Podcast

Upping your game on food

17-Mar-2022 By Ed Bedington

This week’s episode is brought to you from the number one Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropub the Unruly Pig in Bromeswell, Suffolk and includes licensee Brendan Padfield alongside rising chef star Ruth Hansom of the Princess of Shoreditch and Big Smoke co-founder...

Inflation of food and drink more than twice December's rate

17-Mar-2022 By Rebecca Weller

Food prices increases accelerated sharply in January with more prices to come, according to the latest edition of the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index.

Calorie regulations will bring ‘further cost pressures’ to industry

16-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

New calorie regulations will bring cost pressures and an added workload to a sector struggling to recover from Covid, according to operators.

Kerridge joins forces for Ukraine fundraiser

15-Mar-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Gastropub chef Tom Kerridge along with an elite set of celebrity cooks have joined forces to raise more than £70,000 to help people in war-torn Ukraine through a charity dinner and auction.

Operators warned about ‘significantly higher poultry costs for foreseeable’

15-Mar-2022 By Nikkie Thatcher

Pubs have been urged to budget for a hike in chicken prices for the coming months after prices have been impacted by the Ukraine invasion.

The MA's Review of the Week

Menu engineering is key in the face of rising prices

11-Mar-2022 By Ed Bedington

The MA's Ed Bedington caught up with the Parkers Arms Stosie Madi to get her take on the week's news, from rocketing commodity costs and soaring fuel prices through to the need for Government support on VAT.

Less than a month until calorie label rules enforced

09-Mar-2022 By Nikkie Thatcher

Pub groups with more than 250 employees have four weeks to prepare for calorie information regulations, which will come into force from 6 April.

Just one fifth of hospitality businesses know where their food waste comes from

08-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

A joint survey of leading hospitality operators, representing more than 2,3000 sites, has revealed only one fifth of sector businesses track whether their food waste comes from preparation, spoilage or plant waste.

Albert’s Schloss announces Liverpool opening

07-Mar-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Albert’s Schloss – the bar, restaurant and live entertainment brand operated by Mission Mars – is set to open a site in Liverpool as part of a £3m investment.

UK’s favourite pies aren’t actually pies

04-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Shepherd’s pie has been revealed as the nation’s favourite pie, ahead of British Pie Week 2022, which begins on Monday (7 March).

Prospect Pubs expand with fifth site

03-Mar-2022 By Ed Bedington

Prospect Pubs has announced the launch of its fifth site with the opening of the Joiners Arms near Banbury with a sixth on the way.

NWTC to open Botanist site in Edinburgh

02-Mar-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Bar-restaurant operator New World Trading Company (NWTC) will open a Botanist site in the St James Quarter area of Edinburgh later this year.

Pubs make the most of Pancake Day

01-Mar-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Pubs across the country are celebrating Shrove Tuesday today (Tuesday 1 March) through special pancake-orientated menus, fundraising events and build-your-own sessions.

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Callebaut Dessert Report offers operators key insights to boost profits

28-Feb-2022 By Callebaut

Callebaut’s latest Dessert Report provides operators with a comprehensive overview of the ever-changing foodservice landscape, to help pub operators drive their dessert sales.

MA Leaders Club

Standard of food key as consumers return to the pub

25-Feb-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Consumers admit Covid has altered the way they visit pubs but it is the expected standard of food that has proved the biggest talking point.

Delivery and takeaway sales increase by 422%

23-Feb-2022 By Rebecca Weller

Britain’s managed restaurant and pub groups saw delivery sales reach five times pre-pandemic levels in January, the CGA & Slerp Hospitality at Home Tracker has revealed.

Punk music helps Michelin-starred chef cook

23-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Stephen Harris, head chef at the Sportsman gastropub in Kent, has shared the creative process behind his dishes. This comes after his pub retained its Michelin star in the 2022 Michelin Guide last week.

Industry campaign to slash cost of no-shows by nearly £4bn

18-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

The industry could save £3.8bn a year lost in sales due to a decrease in no-shows, following the launch of the #ShowUpForHospitality campaign in September 2021.

New Bib Gourmands awarded this year

16-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Two pubs have scored Bib Gourmand awards, which are dished out by the Michelin Guide to recognise restaurants that “will leave you with a sense of satisfaction, at having eaten so well at a reasonable price”.

PETA UK urges M&B to reopen pub with ‘animal-friendly’ name

15-Feb-2022 By Rebecca Weller

PETA UK has urged operator Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) to reopen ‘England’s oldest pub’ under a new name and a completely vegan menu.

Celebrity chef Glynn Purnell to open Warwickshire pub

14-Feb-2022 By Joe Lutrario

Michelin-starred Birmingham chef Glynn Purnell will launch a pub in Henley-In-Arden late next month.

Couple bring slice of Mediterranean to Shepherd Neame inn

10-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

A couple have scored success as customers take to their new Mediterranean food offering at the Canterbury-based White Hart Inn, after the pair honed a taste for Turkish cuisine in Istanbul.

Kerridge: ‘I haven’t looked at TripAdvisor in 12 years’

10-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Head chefs of Tom Kerridge’s pubs the Hand & Flowers and the Coach in Marlow, which ranked in the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropub list 2022, discuss the inspiration behind dishes that have been slammed for their expensive prices.

Pepperoni crowned Brits' fav topping for National Pizza Day

09-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Take your pizza offering to new heights with meat toppings as pepperoni, donner pizza and meat feast all score a place in Brits’ top five types of pizza.

23% of pub trips involve burgers

08-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Almost a quarter (23.15%) of times people ate out at pubs from November 2020 to January 2022 included burgers, data from Lumina Intelligence Eating and Drinking Out Panel has revealed.

Alchemy acquires Brasserie Bar Co

08-Feb-2022 By Georgi Gyton

Brasserie Bar Co has been acquired by Alchemy Partners for an undisclosed sum, understood to be around £40m.

Freemasons at Wiswell: ‘As we’ve matured, the menu’s matured’

03-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

At Lancashire-based gastropub Freemasons at Wiswell, the current menu revolves around making classic dishes the best they can be, while always keeping customers at the forefront.

Half of pub visits include chips

03-Feb-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Some 50.7% of times people ate out at pubs from November 2020 to January 2022 included chips, data from Lumina Intelligence Eating and Drinking Out Panel has revealed.

Property round-up

Diageo to open £73m Guinness site in London, Bar + Block to reach 20 sites

01-Feb-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Property news this week includes Diageo's plans for a £73m Guinness microbrewery in London, Whitbread's Bar + Block brand to reach 20 sites and multiple operators take third site with Star Pubs & Bars.

Bar and mini golf concept backed by Wales footballer to open

01-Feb-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Par 59, a Cardiff bar, restaurant and mini golf concept backed by Wales footballer Gareth Bale is set to open on 18 March with bookings available from the first week of February.

Bar + Block brand to reach 20 UK sites with double launch in London

31-Jan-2022 By Gary Lloyd

Pub-restaurants and hotel operator Whitbread will take its Bar + Block steakhouse concept to 20 sites UK-wide including six in London, with the opening of two new branches in the capital.

Calorie labelling rules to come into force at ‘very challenging time’

31-Jan-2022 By Rebecca Weller

UKHospitality (UKH) has called for a delay in the implementation of new regulations regarding labelling calories, due to come into force in April 2022.