POLPO Knightsbridge will open on the Fifth Floor of the iconic Harvey Nichols store on Monday 8th February - whilst in Leeds, the restaurant will launch in the heart of the city centre on the Fourth Floor of Harvey Nichols on Friday 26th February. Both restaurants will take their inspiration from the rustic back-street wine bars of Venice and feature an array of simple but … [Read more...]
Hounslow Mayor Opens the Chartwells Creative Kitchen
The £250,000 investment by Chartwells, Compass Group UK & Ireland’s specialist provider of catering to the education sector, is part of the Feeding Futures joint venture with the London Borough of Hounslow. On Thursday, 1 January, the Mayor of the London Borough of Hounslow, Councillor Nisar Malik opened the exciting new Chartwells Creative Kitchen facility. The event … [Read more...]
Completion of acquisition of building in Manchester
easyHotel, the owner, developer, operator and franchisor of “super budget” branded hotels, confirms it has now been granted planning permission for a 116 room easyHotel at Bradley House in Manchester and the acquisition of the building has completed. The hotel is expected to open in 2016/2017 financial year. htm sponsor hotel information at H&C News … [Read more...]
Pret empowers over 100,000 customers to ‘make someone smile’
New initiative enables customers to give the gift of free coffee. Since news of Pret A Manger’s “alternative loyalty programme” made headlines last April, delighted customers around the world have taken to social media to share their free coffee experiences.* Today the company is launching a new initiative to “Make Someone Smile” and spread that joy … [Read more...]
Twitter leads to chefs bearing souls @guardian
It’s Sunday so we are planning to trawl our favourite news websites and see what’s happening and hot, but before we do we need to check social notifications and feeds to see who’s talking with us. Quite a few tweets, like this one from Paul Heathcote MBE on news feeds pointing to a series of articles by John Hind at The Guardian titled, The Chefs’ Guide to life. They are … [Read more...]