The Sunday Times reports that the Gaucho steak restaurant chain is for sale. Bankers at Canaccord Genuity have been hired to work on the sale, with private equity firm ICG and Dutch entrepreneur Zeev Godik looking for a price up to £150m. With deals aplenty in recent times - Prezzo, Pizza Express, Ask, Zizzi, Byron and just recently Coco di Mama – it’s no surprise that … [Read more...]
Seasonal produce and recipe: the view from the Kudos kitchen
H&C News is pleased to introduce Kudos Head Chef Richard Webb, who summarises below some of the challenges of event catering, the use of local, seasonal produce – and a delicious recipe for strawberry sorbet. The daily challenge Whether it's your first time or you've been working for years, cooking for several hundred people can be quite daunting. From start to … [Read more...]
Peninsula Hotel planned for Hyde Park Corner, London
Plans have been submitted to Westminster City Council for a new 190-room hotel, to be known as The Peninsula London, at one of the city’s most celebrated addresses. Joint venture partners Grosvenor Britain & Ireland and The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Limited are proposing a new landmark at 1-5 Grosvenor Place, Belgravia in the West End of London. Designed by … [Read more...]
Hungerdog to open in Camden London
Hungerdog, led by Tim and Julie Mills, has announced both its mission - to create a concept that offers hotdogs and other fresh foods like no other – and the opening of its first outlet in Camden later this summer. In Hungerdog’s view, Hotdogs in the UK are a variety of food that has neither been served to a particularly decent quality nor offered in a dynamic venue where … [Read more...]
People 1st launches consultation to drive response to hospitality productivity slump
Low productivity levels need to be urgently addressed in the hospitality and tourism industry with high levels of employee turnover resulting in the sector being 58 per cent less productive (on a per-employee basis) than the likes of manufacturing, a new analysis from workforce development charity People 1st reveals. Campaign to tackle the low productivity In response to … [Read more...]