Category: The Caterer

Hospitality bosses have warned that a relaxing of self-isolation rules from 16 August will be “too little, too late” to save the industry from a potential staffing crisis as restrictions ease.

Wahaca co-founder Mark Selby has said the group expects to make a swift recovery once its restaurants are able to fully reopen.

A look at the latest restaurants, hotels, pubs and bars to open their doors.

As operators struggle to find the staff to fully reopen post lockdown, *The Caterer* is holding a Staffing Summit to explore the options open to hospitality business to expand their people pipeline.

Jay Rayner of The Observer writes that “the dear chicken is lifted far above the humble” at Humble Chicken in London’s Soho

Dalata Hotel Group has confirmed that seven hotel openings are on course for the next year, but the Maldron hotel in Birmingham will not be among them.

A number of JD Wetherspoon staff have joined a campaign calling for double pay for those working on bank holidays.

The Scottish government has launched a campaign encouraging people to choose a career in the tourism and hospitality industry.

Former Claridge’s general manager Philippe Leboeuf has been appointed managing director of Raffles London at the OWO, the hotel being developed at the Old War Office that is due to open next year.

Why bother with the one-course only, non-drinking, middle of the day diner, asks Neil Rankin.