Latin American restaurant group Las Iguanas are opening three sites this spring in Woking, Torquay and Swansea, bringing their total number of sites to 41. The additional restaurants will also create over 130 new jobs for the local areas. Woking At the end of March, Las Iguanas will launch a 170 cover restaurant complete with piazza in the town of Woking on Commercial … [Read more...]
Stonegate’s Classic Estate refreshes food and drinks menu
Stonegate’s Classic Estatehas launched a fresh, new menu for the upcoming Spring season. A wider range of flavoursome dishes have been added to the pub favourites selection and there are also a number of fresh new salads and lower calorie dishes. The new menu sees potted mackerel and salmon pate joining the menu alongside tomato and feta bruschetta as two new starter … [Read more...]
Hotel property: which macro environment to back in Europe?
Europe’s leading hotel property specialist and patron sponsor of IHIF, Christie + Co acts for and advises most of the major players in the hotel sector across Europe. This places it in an ideal position to offer insight into the performance of the European hotel market. Recovery began in 2014 – 17.2% price increase European recovery in the hotel sector began in the UK … [Read more...]
Hotel values rise across Europe
Europe’s hotels witnessed their fifth consecutive year of value growth last year, with properties in the UK and Southern Europe seeing some of the biggest gains, according to the 2015 European Hotel Valuation Index, published this week by global hotel consultancy HVS. Significant value increases “Hotels in several cities have experienced significant value increases … [Read more...]
What’s hot in the US restaurant industry in 2015?
U.S. restaurant industry sales reached $683.4 billion in 2014, making the U.S. market the place to discover new trends, exciting technologies and breakthrough innovations. The American National Restaurant Association surveyed nearly 1,300 professional chefs – members of the American Culinary Federation (ACF) – to find which foods, cuisines, beverages and culinary themes will be … [Read more...]