The Clink Training Restaurant, operating from HMP Brixton, has announced it is launching Clink@Home for its customers from today. Delivering to homes within a five-mile radius of HMP Brixton covering Brixton, Crystal Palace, Mitcham, Camberwell, Putney, Battersea and over the river into Westminster, Fulham and Mayfair. Serving customers a delicious range of dishes via a new … [Read more...]
Casual Dining Group sale in final stage showdown
The casual dining sector has possibly been impacted from Covid-19 more than any other, and many brands that were synonymous with casual dining are no more. Casual Dining Group owns and operates Bella Italia, Belgo, Café Rouge, Huxleys, Oriel and Las Iguanas, and prior to the current crisis employed circa 6,000 people across its diverse restaurant portfolio. Nearly one third … [Read more...]
Eat Out to Help Out – goes LIVE
Restaurants and other establishments serving food for on premises consumption can now sign up to a new government initiative aimed at protecting jobs in the hospitality industry and encouraging people to safely return to dining out. The Eat Out to Help Out registration page went live this morning on GOV.UK, allowing businesses to join the scheme announced last week by … [Read more...]
No Shows survive Covid-19 while restaurants may not, unless things change
Booking anything and expecting the provider to reserve a place, expecting them to spend time preparing for your booking, and then not showing up shows a lack of honesty that cannot and should not be tolerated any longer. This applies to the booking of anything including restaurant seats and tables. In the past three to four months the restaurant industry has been decimated, … [Read more...]
Uber acquires Postmates for $2.65 billion
Uber has announced a deal to acquire Postmates for $2.65 billion that is expected to complete in Q1 2021. Uber strategy is to run the Postmates app separate from its Uber Eats app and keep both brands operating. The acquisition announcement follows quickly after Uber's failed deal with Grubhub, enabling Just Eat to make the $7.3 billion acquisition announced last … [Read more...]
Jess Glynne throws a major tantrum at Sexy Fish
Jess Glynne has taken to throwing a major tantrum on Instagram claiming she was a victim of ‘discrimination’ on being refused admission to Sexy Fish in London’s Mayfair. She was refused entry to the restaurant for being too scruffy. If you take a look at the image on the left, this is what she looked like at the time as she posted herself on Instagram mid tantrum. Surely … [Read more...]
US QSR market sees another acquisition completed
US burger chain BurgerFi has announced they have been bought for $100 million in a cash and stock deal with Opes Acquisition, providing $40 for immediate expansion plans. BurgerFi operates at 130 QSR locations across the US mostly on the east coast, with sales of circa $146 million. The existing BurgerFi executive management team stay and will welcome the Opes Chairman, … [Read more...]
CDG signal multiple offers on the table amidst administration
As the casual dining sector looks set to be one of the worst to be impacted from the Covid-19 crisis in hospitality, Casual Dining Group, now in administration, has received multiple bids to save part of its portfolio. Entering into administration sees 91 CDG venues close immediately with 1,900 workers losing their jobs, almost a third of the 6,000 total. That still sees 159 … [Read more...]
Michael Caines acquires Rick Stein Restaurant
Michael Caines has announced the acquisition of Porthleven Restaurant in Cornwall, a former Rick Stein Restaurant. Caines may just have outmaneuvered Gordon Ramsay in completing this acquisition as it had been reported widely he was not only eyeing the restaurant but was looking to make a move. The reports were always unconfirmed and currently closures like the recent ones in … [Read more...]
Le Gavroche Mayfair reopening
Michel Roux Jr has announced that bookings for Le Gavroche in Mayfair will be open from July 7th, and that the two Michelin-starred restaurant which first opened 53 years ago has an extensive Covid-19 health and safety program ready to be implemented to provide every reassurance for everyone’s comfort and wellbeing. “It’s a challenge we’re happy to take on,” he says. … [Read more...]
Marco Pierre White opening new restaurant in Salisbury
Marco Pierre White has announced the opening of a new restaurant in Salisbury, The Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill. The new restaurant will have 80 covers and is located at The Stones Hotel just in time to start to welcome customers towards the end of the summer. Replacing the hotel’s on-site restaurant, the move to open one of the famed chef’s … [Read more...]
TGI Fridays rebrands as Fridays
Fridays is set to re-open the doors for dining at 66 locations on Monday 6th July, and will on the same day reveal a new brand. The changes will be unveiled at six restaurants, with new elements introduced across the rest of the estate. Fridays first opened in New York in 1965, now 55 years later, it’s proudly celebrating its unique heritage. Its simplified menu … [Read more...]
McDonald’s hail digital channels for reopening results
McDonald's have released details of worldwide financial performance during the COVID-19 crisis. Strong digital reach and delivery systems are credited by McDonald's leading to optimistic sentiment in its strategy to deal with the impact from Covid-19 globally. With about 95% of McDonald's restaurants now operational across the world, sequential improvement in … [Read more...]
New ‘biggest beer garden’ to open in Glasgow
Glasgow's Rotunda building in Finnieston has revealed plans for Glasgow's ‘biggest beer garden’ as soon as lockdown restrictions allow. Cranside Kitchen will be a new free-to-enter outdoor venue, open seven days a week with a food market and beer garden. Under the new plans, the areas currently used for parking and private patios, will be used as an outside space to offer … [Read more...]
