KFC restaurants are going to look and feel very different in the near future. Covid-19 has boosted revenues, and parent Yum! Brands are investing in adapting to drive those increased revenues even higher. The impact from Covid-19 has seen hospitality adapt to survive in a new business landscape that has changed the fundamentals of how people eat out. KFC revenues of circa … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2020
Hospitality Group Action Claim: Hospitality businesses owed millions from TBLs working together
New data shows that hundreds of affected hospitality and catering businesses across the UK qualify to join a major High Court claim against Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank. Today, All Square Finance Ltd (allSquare), a specialist provider of claims management and litigation support services, announced the final phase of its bookbuild for a major High Court case against … [Read more...]
Tom Aikens backs Hospitality Against Homelessness SOS Challenge
Only a Pavement Away, the charity that supports people who are facing homelessness into jobs within hospitality, is raising funds through a new campaign, the ‘SOS Challenge. The campaign is in association with Tom Aikens, who is encouraging everyone to get creative in the kitchen and make a five ingredient soup, to raise awareness and much needed support for the charity’s … [Read more...]
The Clink extends home delivery helping families struggling to eat
The Clink Training Restaurant, operating from HMP Brixton, has announced this week its partnership with the Albrighton Community Fridge on London’s East Dulwich Estate as well as launching its winter menu for the Clink@Home delivery service for its customers. Due to the success of the Clink@Home delivery service launched in July 2020, we have extended our delivery zone to … [Read more...]
London’s Broadgate to welcome Italian hospitality and 300 new hospitality jobs
Italian food market and restaurant Eataly will open its doors to the UK in Broadgate, London early next year with the creation of 300 new jobs in hospitality. Eataly London will host three restaurants, including the finer dining concept Terra, opening in summer 2021. Eataly will also host London’s biggest Italian winery, food to go, and a zero-waste produce refill … [Read more...]
Oxford follows Cambridge and other Universities in removing beef from campus menus
The London School of Economics Students’ Union earlier this year passed a motion to ‘ban beef’ from all menus on campus. Last year, Goldsmiths University also removed beef from all of their menus. The University of Cambridge has successfully removed all beef and all lamb from their menus and replaced the carnivorous options with plant-based ones. The move also … [Read more...]
100 most influential Black Britons features one from hospitality
Tevin Tobun, CEO of GV Group has been named one of the 100 most influential Black Britons for the third time. Featured alongside the likes of Formula one driver Lewis Hamilton and footballer Marcus Rashford, Tobun is the only person from the hospitality sector to be named in The Powerlist 2021. His business, GV Group, is a multi-sector company focusing on food … [Read more...]
Beyond Green: Leadership in sustainable global tourism
The launch of 'Beyond Green' was made to a group of hotel industry people around the world today taking part in a globally connected online conference. Introducing the event Lindsey Ueberroth, CEO of Preferred Hotel Group told us: “Never before has there been a greater need to promote a kinder and gentler way to explore our beautiful, yet fragile planet." The … [Read more...]
Brexit supply chain chaos now looking Machiavellian
If a writer of political fiction depicted the current state of affairs, or affairs of state we as a nation currently face, adding a mind numbingly complex Brexit scenario into the script would seem to stretch the imagination too far, but here we are. Amidst the greatest threat to the economy and health of the nation the very last thing needed is Brexit, and what Brexit is … [Read more...]
Letter to Boris Johnson: Hospitality clairvoyants and telepaths need lockdown help too
Dear Prime Minister, Without confirmation that the national lockdown will be lifted on 3 December, and your colleague Michael Gove stating live on TV that there may not be a defined end date, hospitality businesses are unable to plan anything and everything in the run up to Christmas. Over the past few weeks the government has not issued a definite confirmation that … [Read more...]
Casual Dining Show 2021: Back with lunch! and Commercial Kitchen
Diversified Communications UK, the organiser of the Casual Dining trade show, has confirmed the show has sadly been postponed from next March due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and government restrictions. The UK’s only event dedicated to the casual dining sector (multisite and independent restaurants, pubs and bars) will now take place on 23-24 September 2021 … [Read more...]
Supreme Court opens business interruption insurance test case, as time ticks painfully for hospitality claimants
Today sees the supreme court start a four day process to judge on the test case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority against eight insurers. The case looks at how despite selling business interruption insurance the insurers have not paid out on claims by their customers. The stakes are high as many of the circa 200,000 policy holders have little chance of avoiding … [Read more...]
The Clink Christmas Gift, giving doubled in one click
If you are looking for something different as a Christmas gift this year, for family, friends, work colleagues, why not take a look around The Clink Charity gift shop. The Clink Charity works to reduce reoffending. We are a unique charity, training serving prisoners in catering skills, within a real-life work environment whilst helping them gain academic qualifications. … [Read more...]
McDonald’s lead in a plant based future
The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the world of hospitality, changes that are profound and ongoing. Anyone looking back and expecting a business landscape even resembling bye-gone days will become another casualty of the pandemic. Business fundamentals have changed, are changing, and will continue to for some time before they settle down and become the … [Read more...]
Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala announce closure of Café Spice Namaste
Café Spice Namaste in Whitechapel East London is without doubt one of the warmest welcomes in hospitality. Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala for 25 years welcomed diners in a way only they can. Unfortunately today we have the responsibility of announcing the closure of Café Spice Namaste. Early in the New Year, the Todiwala’s will be moving to different premises, not too far … [Read more...]