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Tortilla open 25th restaurant and make key appointments
Tortilla, the burgeoning Mexican restaurant group, has opened the doors to its 25th restaurant at Kings Cross St Pancras. Just a stone’s throw away from Kings Cross station, the restaurant will serve...
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ALMR members favour flexibility and clarity on tipping
Businesses need to retain the flexibility to invest in their teams and recognise great service in any review of the rules on tips. Those rules need updating and strengthening, with the emphasis on...
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Nutritional training to help hospitality and catering join the war on obesity
With obesity on the rise in the UK as a result of people exercising less and eating out more, Frank Post of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) makes the point that the catering and...
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Bistrot Pierre introduces Family Activity Pack to ensure ‘quality time’
New research shows that more people than ever are choosing to eat out with their family to spend ‘quality time’ together. The study found almost 75 per cent of families questioned now visit...
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Debenhams begins expansion of food and drink offer with Ed’s
Debenhams has broadened its food and drink offering in its Manchester store with the opening of a new branch of Ed’s Easy Diner. The new Ed’s Easy Diner, will create around 30 new jobs using...
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Insight: how to draw in the suits
The lunchtime trade is alive and flourishing in cities – not just London – and towns across the UK. But not every restaurant, despite its location, attracts the lunchtime ‘suits’. Here, Nicky Richmond...
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Chilango plans five-fold expansion
Described as “London’s hottest new fast food chain”, Chilango is launching its second investment round on Crowdcube in the form of an equity crowdfund that aims to raise £1 million from investors in...
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Free app’etiser with every download of the TGI Fridays app
TGI Fridays has launched a brand new app offering rewards, features and benefits for those who sign up to be a friend of Fridays, from free burgers to Apple Watches – and even a free appetiser with...
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The new look of Purnell’s Restaurant
Chef Glynn Purnell has opened the doors of Purnell’s, his Michelin-starred restaurant in Birmingham’s Colmore business district, to welcome guests into the newly refurbished space. This follows a...
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Arc Banyan Project success leads to more work for NoChintz
Amidst the excitement of the redeveloped Corn Exchange in Manchester, Northern Quarter based creative studio NoChintz, has completed designs for the £1.5m Banyan restaurant and bar situated within the...
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Feeling peckish? Elior UK hatches new chicken concept
Elior UK has launched a new street food inspired chicken concept in response to the rising popularity of street food and ‘chickenisation’ on the high street. Chicken now accounts for 31% of all out of...
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LEON secures £11.5 million funding
Naturally fast food brand LEON has secured a funding package worth £11.5 million from new banking partner, HSBC. The facility will fund LEON’s plans to expand both nationally and internationally and...
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Food Porn Awards for the North West
The Food Porn Awards has launched its search to find the best looking food from restaurants, pubs, bars and eateries across the region. Chefs in the North West are being encouraged to enter images of...
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PAUL adopts national living wage now
In advance of the introduction of the mandatory National Living Wage next April, the 34-strong French bakery and café brand has announced that it will increase the starting hourly rate to £7.20 per...
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The Cafe Rouge Rejuve arrives in the city
Café Rouge, Britain’s best-loved bistro since 1989, has completed a £500,000 refurbishment of its flagship site opposite St. Paul’s Cathedral. The largest scheme to be undertaken by the brand as part...
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Brasserie Blanc Christmas Cards donate profits to Shelter
Brasserie Blanc, the 18-strong restaurant group led by CEO Mark Derry and acclaimed chef Raymond Blanc, will launch limited edition Christmas cards to raise money for housing and homelessness charity...
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London Union launches £3.5m crowdfund to create world-class streetfood market
London Union, parent company of the highly successful Street Feast, has launched one of the biggest crowdfunding bids in history, looking to raise £3.5 million to build a world-class, permanent street...
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Chi Kitchen brings a new dining experience to Debenhams Oxford Street
Chi Kitchen, a new pan-Asian restaurant, will launch on the ground floor of Debenhams’ flagship Oxford Street store on Saturday 7th November. The dining concept and brand are exclusive to Debenhams,...
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Wringer & Mangle for London Fields
This winter London Fields will be in a spin over the new project from East End drinks maverick and founder of the award-winning Hoxton Pony and Hoxton Gin, Gerry Calabrese. Opening in a former...
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Operators realistic: growth in food sales expected to slow
Confidence remains relatively strong amongst the UK’s eating out operators, with nearly two-thirds of those taking part in the latest Eating Out-Look survey saying that their food sales had increased...
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