Twenty young working chefs and college students are celebrating after receiving the news that they are on their way to the semi-finals of the Craft Guild of Chefs Graduate Awards 2015. Getting through the paper entry of the awards, designed to really test a chef’s skills and get them noticed in the industry, is no mean feat and semi-finalists will need to give everything … [Read more...]
Make an impact with your vegetarian offering: Top 5 tips for hoteliers
Beacon, the leading hospitality purchasing company, works closely with leading produce suppliers Brakes and Total Produce and works with over 1,000 hotels and 400 pubs and restaurants. Drawing on advice from Beacon’s expert suppliers, Emma Warrington, Senior Buyer at Beacon here presents her top five tips for hoteliers to consider this National Vegetarian Week. Tap into … [Read more...]
Shankly Hotel reveals first luxury room for Shankly family visit
Liverpool’s highly anticipated Shankly Hotel unveiled its first luxury room when members of the Shankly family visited the Victoria Street development to mark the first key milestone. The room gives the first glimpse inside the new 83-bedroom £20million development. Shankly family members who attended include Bill’s daughter Jeanette Carline and his grandson, Christopher … [Read more...]
Wetherspoon apologises to Irish Travellers
The Court gave its judgment on Monday 18 May in a case brought by a group of Irish Travellers and their supporters for discrimination when they were refused entry to the Coronet, a JD Wetherspoon public house in Holloway Road, north London, on the 17th November 2011, following the Traveller Movement’s annual conference close by. Door staff had been engaged by the then pub … [Read more...]
Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Group progresses and expands
CityAM reports that Gordon Ramsay managed to keep sales progressing across his Restaurant Group in its last financial year to August 2014, with sales from new openings in South London helping to offset the end of the contract at Claridges. Turnover at the total of 26 restaurants in the Group was slightly down to £44.7m from £44.8m, the previous year, according to accounts … [Read more...]