Up-and-coming restaurants across the country have been given one last chance to enter Startups Awards 2014 after the deadline was extended to Friday 26 September. Sponsored by Simply Business and organised by Startups.co.uk, the number one website for start-ups and small businesses, the 11th Startups Awards are shaping up to be the most exciting in recent memory. Now, … [Read more...]
Kings Head appoints Alan Holmes as Restaurant and Cellar Manager
The hotly anticipated Kings Head in Cirencester has appointed Alan Holmes as its Restaurant and Cellar Manager. Former Sommelier of the Year, Alan brings a wealth of experience from his previous positions held at Marcus Wareing’s Petrus, The Berkeley Hotel in London and Chewton Glen in Hampshire, and will be overseeing all the front of house offering at the Kings Head, … [Read more...]
Improved medium term outlook for the UK eating out market
Eating out participation amongst the UK adult population has grown for two straight quarters for the first time since 2012. Although there has been a marginal decline since Q2 2012, Allegra Foodservice expects that with rising consumer confidence, eating out participation will improve further over the second half of the year. Eating out frequency is down Despite this, … [Read more...]
Organic market strengthens as confidence grows
The Soil Association is announcing new figures showing acceleration in the growth of the UK’s organic grocery market, as well as wider availability in the foodservice industry. The figures from Nielsen, as presented by Mike Watkins at the Soil Association annual market briefing, show growth in the organic grocery market of +3.2% for the 4 weeks to 16 August 2014 compared … [Read more...]
Londoners love their ‘lunch-to-go’ but pay 24% more
Foodservice industry figures from the NPD Group show that Londoners visit fast food outlets and other chains to buy a take-out lunch more frequently than people in the rest of Britain. London comprises 13% of the population of Great Britain but has a 17% share of Britain’s ‘lunch-to-go’ traffic and 18% of Britain’s ‘lunch-to-go’ spend. But Londoners pay 24% more than the … [Read more...]