Hospitality Industry

Food forecast

From Brexit to breakfast: what does 2017 hold for pub food?

03-Jan-2017 By Daniel Woolfson

Is it all doom and gloom for food in the pub sector, or is there a light at the end of the tunnel? 

VAT campaign

VAT Club proposes staggered tax reduction

02-Sep-2015 By Mark Wingett, M&C Allegra Foodservice

The hospitality VAT cut campaign has put forward a plan to the Government for a staggered reduction in the level of the tax for hospitality businesses.

Charity

Team Margot: Operators join forces for #LiveYourLife day

28-Jul-2015 By Mike Berry

A number of operators across the hospitality industry will be joining forces on Thursday (30 July) to raise funds for Live Your Life Day, a new charity initiative.

M&B and Whitbread team up with charity for new initiative

22-Jun-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Mitchells & Butlers and Whitbread have partnered with workforce development charity People 1st and several other high profile companies in the hospitality industry as part of an initiative to boost career opportunities for low paid workers in the...

Beannchor MD Bill Wolsey is made OBE

16-Jun-2014 By John Harrington

Bill Wolsey, managing director of Northern Ireland-based hospitality firm Beannchor, has become an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Hospitality Guild reveals campaign to raise awareness of apprenticeships

05-Feb-2013 By Gurjit Degun

The Hospitality Guild has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of apprenticeships.

Peter Salussolia and Patrick Dempsey receive OBEs

18-Jun-2012

Peter Salussolia, founder of pub, bar and restaurant company Glendola Leisure, has received an OBE for services to the hospitality industry in the Queen’s birthday honours list.

Feast opens first pub

03-Jan-2012 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Feast, the Gloucestershire-based premium catering and hospitality company, is to operate its first pub after securing the Swan in Berkshire.

Treasury vows to examine VAT cut plan

08-Sep-2011 By John Harrington

A Government minister has promised to look at the arguments for cutting VAT for the hospitality sector, but stated reasons why it would be difficult to reduce the level.

Hosts to air views on 120 pieces of legislation

05-May-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Licensees will have the chance to comment on 120 pieces of legislation affecting the hospitality industry in the Government's "Red Tape Challenge"...

SIBA chief: drop VAT to help pubs

24-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney

A brewers' trade group has urged the Government to halve VAT for the hospitality industry as a positive way to rejuvenate the sector. Julian...

Hospitality key to job creation

10-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team

The Prime Minister's jobs summit emphasises the importance of the hospitality industry as a jobs creator, says Ufi Ibrahim, BHA chief executive.

Health & safety: Throw some light on the matter

17-Jun-2010

One of the areas most taken for granted throughout the hospitality industry is that of lighting. Yet there are many separate issues with regard to...

Health & safety: Covering all your bases

26-Oct-2009

Reduce risk. This has, for many years, been the mantra for everyone involved in the hospitality industry. And in these uncertain times it should be...

BHA chief to step down next year

03-Sep-2009

Bob Cotton, chief executive of the British Hospitality Association (BHA), is to leave the trade body in July 2010, after the general election....

Health & safety: Don't play with fire

15-Apr-2009

If there is one word guaranteed to strike a raw nerve for the hospitality industry it is… 'fire'. The high cost of a fire is often counted in lives...

Back to Basics: Surviving a terror attack

09-Jun-2008

The explosion at the Giraffe bar-restaurant in Exeter on May 22 was a sharp reminder that the hospitality industry, including pubs, is a potential...

ePub: Symphony fine-tunes pub chains

06-Nov-2007

Web-enabled software designed specially for the hospitality industry to help it control pricing and data management has been launched by EPoS company...

Pubs refuse to play ball

19-Nov-2003

A glittering event is aiming to unite the hospitality industry - but the pub trade is showing little interest in taking part. Michelle Perrett...

You have to admire my good friend Stuart Neame for his persi

05-Jun-2003

There will be a certain amount of horse trading between the two Houses, which will hopefully mean that the trade will win an important victory on the...

The Little Barrow Hotel, Beacon Street, Lichfield, has sold

10-Apr-2003

The Little Barrow is a well known and respected three-star commercial hotel with 26 spacious en-suite bedrooms, bar, restaurant, and function rooms....

Industry urged to modernise attitude to workforce

24-Oct-2001

Employment relations minister Alan Johnson has urged the hospitality industry to modernise its attitude to its workforce.Speaking at the launch of a...

DTI launches guide to tackle high staff turnover

08-Oct-2001

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has linked up with the hospitality industry to launch a guide aimed at tackling high staff...