A new ‘How to Guide’ to help pubs reap rewards from the festive period has been launched by Unilever Food Solutions. The downloadable Pub How to Guide features 12 steps to success and gives easily digestible tips and advice on topics such as costing and marketing festive menus, planning ahead, dietary alternatives and waste avoidance. It also includes an example timeplan to … [Read more...]
AM:PM launches online database of hotel closures
AM:PM Hotels, a leading provider of market intelligence on the hotel sector in the UK & Ireland, has launched a new online database of hotel closures. The AM:PM Hotel Database now incorporates details of more than 22,500 hotels with over 1 million rooms covering the past, present and future of hotel supply in the UK & Ireland. This includes over 6,000 hotel closures, … [Read more...]
Brakspear appoints first executive chef
Henley brewer and pub operator Brakspear has appointed Antony Ely as its first executive chef, to develop food sales across its four managed pubs. Ely will work with the head chefs at each of Brakspear's four managed pubs to develop their food business, including menu development, sourcing products, and sharing best practice across all sites. Ely joins Brakspear from The … [Read more...]
Domino’s flourishes in UK, struggles on in Germany
Domino’s Pizza Group, the leading pizza delivery company, has released its Interim Management Statement covering the 13 week period to 28 September 2014, with David Wild, Chief Executive Officer, commenting: “We are delighted with the like-for-like performance in our core UK business and remain on track for our targeted new store opening programme. We are building on our … [Read more...]
lunch! reports record turnout for 2014
lunch! welcomed a record 6,215 attendees through its doors over 23-24 September - attracting a who’s who of buyers from across the food-to-go sector. Now in its seventh year, the sold out show featured almost 300 exhibiting companies and enjoyed a 5% increase in total unique attendees (excluding revisits), compared to 5,924 in 2013. That’s a 44% increase since 2012. As in … [Read more...]