Growing consumer interest in beer styles and heritage, along with ever-higher expectations of quality, are prompting more pub and bar operators to sign up their staff to training courses run by the Beer Academy. Along with a 20% year-on-year uplift in bookings onto its range of beer appreciation courses, the leading global beer education body is increasingly responding to … [Read more...]
Village London sells The Garrison to The City Pub Eis Fund
Village London - the group behind The Garrison, Village East and the Riding House Cafe - has sold The Garrison on Bermondsey Street to The City Pub EIS Fund for an undisclosed sum. To coincide with the sale of The Garrison, co-founder Clive Watson has confirmed his immediate departure from Village London, which he co-founded with Adam White in 2003. White will continue his … [Read more...]
Galvin Brothers search for further pub sites
Christie + Co, specialist property advisers, have been appointed by the Galvin Brothers to search for pubs sites to add to their already hugely successful restaurant portfolio. Galvin Restaurants is a family run collection of French restaurants founded in 2005 by Michelin-starred chef brothers Chris and Jeff Galvin. The idea behind establishing Galvin Pub Co is to create … [Read more...]
New Commercial Kitchen show to launch at the NEC in 2016
Diversified Communications UK, organisers of the highly successful Casual Dining and lunch! events, has announced the launch of Commercial Kitchen – a major new trade show for the UK’s £1bn catering equipment sector. The latest addition to Diversified UK’s growing trade show portfolio, Commercial Kitchen will take place at the NEC Birmingham on 7-8 June 2016. For all the … [Read more...]
The Eater Archetypes that define the foodservice consumer landscape
Today, foodservice operators need to know who their customers are and what drives them to dine out. To help such industry stakeholders understand and get ahead of consumer expectation, Technomic's Consumer4Sight has now defined the 7 Eater Archetype (EAT) segments that compose the foodservice consumer landscape. UK foodservice businesses will certainly identify many of the … [Read more...]