As today is New Year’s Eve we thought we would take a look back through 2018 and month by month see what was making the headlines, and what was the most read news item each month.
Jan – UK Coffee Shop market continues with robust growth
Feb – M&B apprenticeships awarded ‘best in the country’ at HR Awards
Mar – An open letter from Adam Handling on Central London Business Rates
Apr – Tim Martin switches off Wetherspoons social channels with customers
May – Harry Murray MBE: The impact of Brexit on the British hospitality industry
Jun – BaxterStorey celebrates achievements of 2018’s graduates
Jul – Five minutes with… Thomas Kochs
Aug – Hospitality businesses receive Royal recognition for people training and development
Sep– Chef Ellis Barrie to host quarterly masterclasses at local secondary school
Oct – Costa Coffee trains next generation of baristas using Virtual Reality
Nov – Falling migrant-worker numbers will undermine hospitality sector
Dec – Catering assistant named in BBC’s 100 most inspiring and influential women in the world
An interesting mix with a positive commonality, training, developing, rewarding and recognising talent in our great industry was what readers chose to spend most time reading.
Wishing all our reader’s a very Happy and Prosperous New Year in 2019 !