Category: The Caterer

Trinity Hotel, a consortium of private investors, has agreed to take a new 100-year lease at Wroxall Abbey Hotel & Estate, which closed and fell into administration last year.

Jamie Oliver’s parents have sold their Essex pub, the Cricketers in Clavering, after 44 years.

Cook-chill specialist Robert Croft of RC Associates has died aged 78. His wife Lettie was with him when he passed away peacefully at home on Sunday 25 October.

UK hotel trading performance is set to decline significantly in 2021 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research from PwC.

The restaurant sector is notoriously thriftless, says Neil Rankin, but it’s about time we ditched our wasteful ways.

The leaders of 40 British food and drink associations have warned prime minister Boris Johnson that they may stop trading in Northern Ireland following Brexit.

Trade bodies representing Scotland’s hospitality sector have written to the first minister and MSPs proposing a “workable strategic framework” for the sector.

Revolution Bars has launched a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) to shed sites, reduce rents, “and improve the profitability and return on capital of the group over the long-term”.

Muse in London, Ocean restaurant at the Atlantic hotel in Jersey, the Ritz London and the Latymer at Pennyhill Park in Bagshot, Surrey, have all been awarded four AA rosettes, while a record 26 premises have received three rosettes.

Premier Inn owner Whitbread has dropped from a £219.9m pre-tax profit in its 2020 financial year to a statutory loss of £724.7m in its interim first half results of 2021.