Last Friday we published a news item relating to Delaware North, match day caterers at Arsenal Football Club. The news was that they were not paying their ‘casual’ staff during the Covid-19 crisis. Arsenal are paying their casual staff, people who do the same job, but are employed by the club. The imbalance of empathy was infuriating employees, and Arsenal fans across North … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2020
Knightsbridge hotel caring for disadvantaged locals
Chefs at the five-star Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge are making more than 1,500 meals a week for local disadvantaged residents. Volunteers are delivering the meals to people in sheltered accommodation or those on low incomes. The volunteers are also delivering from local grocery shops to help people who are unable to go shop through isolating. Newly-elected council … [Read more...]
Government reject £750m help for breweries
The Government has rejected a deferral of beer duty payments due on 25th April relating to beer produced in March. Beer duty for the whole of the next quarter, amounting to £750 million, April-June, will also not be deferred. Brewery sales to pubs currently is about zero, and this is due to pubs following Government Covid-19 guidelines. The relationship between pubs and … [Read more...]
Launching Covid-19 Clink Graduate Emergency Support Fund
As the nation is still experiencing lock down and the restrictions this brings, The Clink Charity are busier than ever. And we welcome more support. Our Clink Restaurants, Café, Gardens, Kitchens and Events training projects are all temporarily closed. Our Clink Support Workers are working tirelessly. Working to ensure that our Clink Graduates in the community, and those … [Read more...]
Arsenal & Compass 2 Delaware North 0
Delaware North, the provider of match-day catering and hospitality at Arsenal FC, is under fire from casual staff, and locals, for not placing staff into furlough. The crux of the complaints focus on casual staff directly employed by Arsenal being paid through the Covid-19 crisis, while Delaware North’s casual staff at the stadium are not. The Islington Tribune in North … [Read more...]
D&D London exporting NHS learning to New York
D&D London is supporting NHS charities and hospitals by providing over 2,000 free meals a day to key workers across the UK. Led by Alexander & Björck’s Head Chef Henry Osborn, D&D London is utilising its UK restaurants with help from many of its furloughed staff. A combination of volunteers including D&D chefs and their restaurant brigades (Gary Foulkes from … [Read more...]
Shankly Hotel Liverpool Administration
Shankly Hotel, the hotel named after one of Liverpool’s most loved sons has been placed in administration. The parent company, Signature Living is reported as ‘unaffected’ by the process. London firm, Duff & Phelps have been appointed as administrators of the Signature Shankly Ltd. Signature Shankly's parent company, Signature Living said in a statement: "Due to Covid-19 … [Read more...]
Sodexo entertain virtual Salsa
The Student Living by Sodexo team has launched its residential living programme as a virtual service for students at Sodexo managed university student accommodation sites across the UK. Building on Sodexo’s existing Residency Living programme the new virtual service has been developed to help students maintain their mental wellbeing and offer them the opportunity to learn new … [Read more...]
Friday Fun, Kitchen Outtakes
Friday Fun invites you to have a quick laugh. Social media can very often be precisely that, social. When people, businesses and brands engage, it can lead in many directions. Yesterday we were invited by a woman called Tina to view her YouTube Channel, Bear Food Kitchen. On arrival at YouTube Channel, Bear Food Kitchen there are a selection of videos about healthy, fun, and … [Read more...]
Hospitality rent protection announced by Government
The Government has announced new measures to prevent aggressive rent collection in the wider commercial sector. The measures will temporarily ban the use of statutory demands and winding up orders where the non-payment is due to Covid-19. UKHospitality has welcomed the announcement of measures to protect commercial tenants including swathes of bars and restaurants that are … [Read more...]
A GM’s perspective… People, people, and people
One afternoon, sitting in my office during the run up to Christmas, I heard a confident knock at my door. A team member entered, this being early in her second week with us, and she said she wanted to tell me that two years ago she, and a cohort of students from her school, were my guests for breakfast and a tour of our business. She went on to explain that when her school … [Read more...]
Free school meals from Publicans
Free local school meals provided to children in need Two Kent publicans are raising both spirits and money to support their communities with the provision of free school meals for children. Ben and Luck Chell, the owners of the Sans Pariel, Wainscott, decided to run a free school meal delivery service for those in need. Government halts free school meals The Government’s … [Read more...]
London Club hosts key military workers
London Club hosts workers, helping those that are helping us most. The Victory Services Club in Marble Arch London has transformed into a hotel to accommodate key military workers. The Club has 100 rooms available, of which 50 to 60 are currently being used to support military personnel deployed in London combating Covid-19. Operations Director at Victory Services Club, Mark … [Read more...]
Antunes Egg Station 50% Off, While Stocks Last…
Equipline have announced that during the Covid-19 pandemic all Antunes cooking equipment is on sale at 50% of their normal RRP. All equipment comes with full warranty. Antunes Egg Station 50% Off, While Stocks Last... The Antunes cooking equipment is particularly suitable for all hospitality outlets looking to take the opportunity to diversify and operate a click and collect, … [Read more...]
Hospitality looking at a million job losses
Hospitality looking at a million job losses. An extended period of social distancing could cost one million jobs unless measures to protect hospitality businesses are put in place. Professor Chris Whitty yesterday warned that social distancing measures could last beyond 2020. Prompting UKHospitality to write to Michael Gove MP. Michael Gove in an interview last weekend … [Read more...]
