Category: The Caterer

Workers will eventually tire of interacting with their colleagues from behind a screen, predicts Wendy Bartlett.

All restrictions in England are set to be dropped on 19 July including social distancing, health secretary Sajid Javid confirmed this afternoon.

Thousands of hospitality businesses are still fighting to secure insurance payments for coronavirus disruption, with many pursing a fresh wave of legal action.

The former Gezellig site at London’s Holborn Town Hall is to be replaced by a restaurant called Colonel Saab, the first UK venture for Indian hotelier Roop Partap Choudhary.

Royal Crescent general manager Ben Danielsen is set to depart the Bath hotel this week to take up the same position at Cameron House on Loch Lomond.

Extending relaxed rules around outdoor dining and takeaway pints will form part of government plans to ‘level up’ the country, the prime minister is expected to say.

Mowgli founder Nisha Katona has hinted a London opening could be on the cards for the Indian restaurant group, which has 12 sites across the country.

The prime minister is expected to confirm this afternoon whether remaining restrictions in England including social distancing will be dropped next Monday.

Pub group Young’s has agreed to sell 56 of the 63 pubs in its tenanted estate, the Ram Pub Company, to Punch Pubs & Co for £53m.

Plans have been lodged to turn Blackpool’s Grade II-listed former Post Office and Sorting Office into a 148-bedroom Hotel Indigo, IHG Hotels and Resorts’ ‘boutique’ hotel brand, and Indigo Suites.