Category: The Caterer

As the eighth week of lockdown concludes, we look at what operators are doing to maintain and improve properties, manage staff and prepare to reopen in a world with different challenges and opportunities.

More than a dozen former winners of The Caterer’s Hotelier of the Year award have unveiled beards grown during the coronavirus lockdown to raise money for charity.

Catering giant Compass has been successful in its £2b share placing, having yesterday announced the move to allow it to “weather” the profound impact of the coronavirus crisis.

Dalata Hotel Group founder and chief executive Pat McCann has said he sees 2021 as the year of “rebuilding”. While he doesn’t expect 2019 levels of trading by 2022, he hopes the business could be “well on our way to getting there” by then.

A glowing review usually portends an influx of customers, but when the lockdown left Joe Fox and Nick Gilkinson facing the possibly of none, the pair switched to delivery.

Large businesses will be able to access up to £200m under the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) after the scheme was extended by the Treasury.

After insurers turned down business interruption claims for Black and White Hospitality, in-house lawyer Rob Atkinson decided he could not ‘accept the unacceptable’.

UKHospitality has welcomed the progression of a bill to prevent statutory rent demands and winding up orders until 30 June, but said that a long-term solution will be needed.

A hospitality action group is preparing to launch a group claim against insurers Aviva and QBE over “ignored or thwarted” business interruption policies.

Best Western has announced a deal with Hallmark Hotels that will bring 26 properties into the brand, representing the largest group deal in its 43-year history.