Category: The Caterer

The owner of London’s Michelin-starred Hakkasan restaurants has been sold to an investment firm owned by online poker billionaire Mark Scheinberg for $550m (£441m).

Sodexo has extended its catering, retail and soft services contract at Queen’s Hospital, Romford, by five years for £140m.

Family-owned Winter Tarn Dairy in Cumbria has invested £150,000 to meet demand for its butter.

London’s St. John Bakery celebrated its official reopening after a year-long refurbishment.

Chef Sven-Hanson Britt has said dropping the £50 booking deposit for his London restaurant to just £5 caused a huge rise in no-shows and cancellations and led to the reservation process becoming ‘dark and negative’.

The Foodservice Equipment Association (FEA) has appointed its new chief executive, John Cunningham, who will take over the role from departing boss Keith Warren.

Belmond has confirmed the UK leg of the famous Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) train is to be scrapped after 41 years due to post-Brexit border controls.

An increase in costs almost inevitably leads to higher rates, but there’s a more strategic way of managing hotel finance, according to research by The Caterer in partnership with IDeaS

Andrew Sheridan has taken on the former site of Michelin-starred restaurant Fraiche in Oxon, Merseyside for his latest project.

Pip Lacey and Gordy McIntyre have expanded their Hicce hospitality portfolio with the opening of Little Pizza Hicce at the Goodness Brewing Co taproom in north London.