Whitbread PLC, the UK's largest hotel and restaurant group, has reported its trading performance to 16 August 2012 is showing good sales growth with total sales up 14.8% in the second quarter with brands outperforming the tough economic climate, with like for like sales growth of 4.2% and continued expansion at Costa and Premier Inn. Highlights from Andy Harrison, … [Read more...]
Simon Hulstone’s The Elephant is Chef’s Restaurant of the Week
This week’s Chefs’ Restaurant of the Week is The Elephant, Torquay and courtesy of Great British Chefs The son of a chef, Simon Hulstone was a Roux Scholar, Knorr National Chef of the Year and World Junior Chef by the time he was 30. After working in kitchens like Cotswold House, Cheltenham’s … [Read more...]
Love British Food 2012 delivers
Love British Food 2012 saw some of the biggest names in retail and food service running British food promotions during the Olympics. Running in parallel with the Games, Love British Food 2012 gave shops, pubs, restaurants and community groups a platform for capitalising on Olympic patriotism without incurring the wrath of the Olympic brand police. The promotion was a … [Read more...]
London’s Battersea on the rise with Cattle Grid
Cattle Grid steak restaurant and grill has acquired the lease of The Establishment bar and restaurant on Battersea Rise from Rising Star Leisure. It joins the expanding Cattle Grid operation which now has five sites including Balham, Leeds, Windsor and Kingston. The premises, which total approximately 3,175 sq ft, were assigned on the remainder of a 30 year lease at a … [Read more...]
LDC commits £20 million to new F & B fund run by Hill Capital
LDC, the leading regional UK mid-market private equity house, has committed to invest £20m in a new restaurants-focused, food and beverage fund to be run by Hill Capital Partners LLP, the investment and advisory firm founded and run by Paul Campbell, the former chief executive of restaurant company The Clapham House Group PLC. The investment by LDC will be used to buy … [Read more...]