The UK’s most sustainable food service businesses will be honoured at the Sustainable Restaurant Awards next month, with two new awards on offer recognising the significant growth in the sector. The new awards, for most sustainable global restaurant, and most sustainable caterer, mark the continued expansion of the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA), which will be … [Read more...]
Loungers opens first of fifteen for 2014
Loungers, the Bristol-based café/bar operator led by Alex Reilley and Jake Bishop, opens their 42nd site in Glossop, Derbyshire on 22 January, as the group sets out to meet its target of opening 15 sites in 2014. The 4,500 sq ft Glossop site, called Pico Lounge, is located within the Howard Town Mill scheme and is the groups’ 36th Lounge site. Loungers have invested £400k … [Read more...]
New Casual Dining show targets food-led pub operators
With food sales becoming an increasingly important income stream for the UK’s pub and bar sector, operators looking to expand their menu offering will find a host of new ideas at next month’s Casual Dining trade show. Taking place at the Business Design Centre in London, on 26-27 February, the new launch is now just five stands away from selling out of all exhibition … [Read more...]
New GM for Vapiano, Great Portland Street
Italian fresh casual dining restaurant group Vapiano has appointed Dagmara Glesmer-Salamon (pictured) as general manager of its restaurant in Great Portland Street, London, overseeing 100 staff. Dagmara joined Vapiano (Great Portland Street) as an assistant manager in September 2012 and succeeds Alex Fisher who has been named as general manager of Vapiano’s new restaurant in … [Read more...]
Bumper Christmas and New Year for pub and restaurant groups
Britain celebrated Christmas and New Year by going out to eat and drink. Latest figures reveal that the nation's leading pub, bar and restaurant groups enjoyed a festive season boost, with collective like-for-like sales up 3.3% on last year. Total sales were ahead 6.1%. Results from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker, the sector's leading sales barometer, for the six weeks … [Read more...]