Introduction Andrew Turner is the new executive head chef at London’s Café Royal and the chef who bought the `grazing concept menu` to London. Having learnt from the masters including Albert Roux and Anton Edelman, Andrew created his own new style `the grazing concept` which he has mastered and made his own – and has since won many awards. Andrew describes his cooking as … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2013
Fifty Quid of Fashion for the Table!
For every £500 spent on Villeroy & Boch Products with any of our Partners we will give you £50 of Fashion for the Table! Choose from:- Caffe Club for a great coffee experience, Nek vases to bring the best to your table centre, glass buffet plates and serving dishes and oven to table Cooking Elements plus many more trendy design pieces. CLICK HERE to e mail a copy of … [Read more...]
£3,000 up for grabs to employ an apprentice … but only on a first come, first served basis!
Hospitality is an exciting sector to work in, but retaining young talent remains an on-going challenge for employers. Young people starting their professional career in hospitality need to be reassured that they will be able to gain valuable qualifications that will help them progress. Apprenticeships do just this: they offer young people the opportunity to gain qualifications … [Read more...]
Liverpool Exhibition Centre and hotel plan approved
Plans to create a world class exhibition centre and hotel in Liverpool – propelling the city into the premier league for hosting large scale trade and consumer exhibitions – have been given the green light. Ambitious plans for the new £40m Exhibition Centre Liverpool and £27m integrated hotel at Kings Dock were approved by the city’s planning committee on 23 July, with work … [Read more...]
Convivial London Pubs for sale
The Board of Convivial, which owns a portfolio of primarily freehold, managed pubs in London , has engaged Christie & Co to offer the company for sale on a share, or individual asset basis, with offers in excess of £16.9m sought. The Company recently exchanged contracts for the sale of the Pakenham Arms for cash of c£1.4m, with completion expected in October 2013. The … [Read more...]
Travelodge calls for urgent review into extortionate community infrastructure levy
Paul Harvey, Managing Director of Travelodge, London’s largest hotel brand, has written to Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State at the Department of Communities & Local Government calling for an urgent review into how the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is being exploited by London boroughs in an attempt to raise revenue – when in reality it is putting the capital’s … [Read more...]
Zero hours contracts: the case for the hospitality industry
Hospitality consultancy, Solutions 4 Caterers, has responded to the plan by Business Secretary Vince Cable to review the use of zero hours contracts, after fears that workers are being treated unfairly. Strong case for keeping zero hours contracts Peter Flaxman, Director of Solutions 4 Caterers, says: “While it may seem to outsiders that zero hours contracts are unfair, … [Read more...]
Pubs are GREAT posters revealed by pubs Minister Brandon Lewis
The British Beer & Pub Association and Pubs Minister Brandon Lewis MP joined forces 29 July to launch the key images for their new campaign: Pubs are GREAT. The campaign is a new feature of the successful and high profile GREAT Britain initiative, led by the Number 10 team, Visit Britain and UKTI. The GREAT campaign sets out to promote Britain abroad as a place to invest … [Read more...]
Costa plots global growth with appointment of Director of Brand & Innovation
Costa has appointed Carol Welch as Brand and Innovation Director, reporting to Managing Director, Christopher Rogers. In this newly created role, Carol will be responsible for continuing the development of the Costa brand as it expands globally and ensuring that Costa remains at the forefront of innovation. Carol joins Costa having held senior Marketing and Innovation roles … [Read more...]
Chef’s Recipe of the Week, by Marcus Wareing
This week’s Chefs Recipe of the Week is Queen Anne's artichoke Tart by Marcus Wareing and courtesy of Great British Chefs. This artichoke tart recipe by Marcus Wareing makes a wonderful vegetarian tart fit for a Queen. The artichokes in this tart are prepared ‘à la grecque’, but you can replace this process by simply using sliced artichoke hearts from a jar, if you … [Read more...]
Driving business into restaurants with the London Restaurant Festival
Now in its fifth year, The London Restaurant Festival will run between 3 and 21 October and is the only festival that actually takes place in London’s restaurants, right across the city. ‘Restaurant-hopping’ tours and set-price Festival Menus Restaurants involved will see a new customer base come through their doors via organised ‘restaurant-hopping’ tours and set-price … [Read more...]
Ceviche to open Virgin Atlantic’s first Pop-Up Restaurant
This August, Martin Morales, Founder of Ceviche, has teamed up with Virgin Atlantic to offer the airline’s first ever pop-up restaurant, at Heathrow Airport. From pop-up to pop-up! Ceviche, the Peruvian restaurant, started life as a pop-up in London last year before finding a permanent home in Soho last March, fast becoming one of the most critically acclaimed restaurants … [Read more...]
ARAMARK wins University of Bedfordshire £4 million contract
ARAMARK has scooped a wide-ranging services contract with the University of Bedfordshire. Operating across two campuses, in Bedford and Luton, ARAMARK will provide a food court, Costa coffee outlets, summer school services, hospitality and vending at each site. The three-year contract, with scope to extend for a further two, began in April 2013 and is valued at around … [Read more...]
Catering in shopping centres: diversity brings opportunities
For shopping centres worldwide, catering has become a key part of the retail and leisure experience on offer to visitors. As such, the catering developments and changes made by the shopping centre operators send important signals to the watching industry: what’s going on, and why? In the UK, such changes have been highly visible in West London and at the Olympics, whilst … [Read more...]
Starbucks bounces back in the UK
Starbucks recently announced the best ever performance in its history for the latest quarter: revenue up 13% globally to $3.7 billion, including 2% growth for the EMEA region covering Europe. It now has 19,000 stores worldwide, and its Starbucks loyalty card grew the dollars held on it by 30%, demonstrating its success in attracting/retaining customers. What of the UK? … [Read more...]
