Category: The Caterer

Pizza chain Domino’s is recruiting for 5,000 roles as staff who joined the business during the pandemic return to their former jobs.

Fears are growing that ‘Freedom Day’ on 21 June – the day when all restrictions on social contact in England could be lifted – may be delayed and further impact hospitality businesses.

Caffè Nero is to face a court battle over its restructuring plans after a judge rejected the chain’s bid to have the case dismissed.

Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire is to close for a two-year restoration programme which will see its 180-strong workforce “scaled down”.

London food hall operator Market Halls has launched Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) proposals in a bid to save the business.

Daylesford founder Carole Bamford has taken on a second pub with rooms, the Fox at Oddington in Gloucestershire, which is set to relaunch in early 2022.

Sodexo UK has voluntarily published its ethnicity pay gap data for 2020, making it the first company in the hospitality industry to do so, reporting a mean ethnicity pay gap of 5%.

One in four (23.7%) of Britain’s restaurants, pubs, bars and other licensed premises have yet to reopen despite the return of inside service, new Market Recovery Monitor research from CGA and AlixPartners reveals.

UKHospitality is urging sector businesses in England to fully prepare for new rates payments that will kick in from 1 July, with new bills expected to land in the coming weeks.

365 Events has acquired Scotland and Northern Ireland’s largest foodservice and hospitality expos, ScotHot and IFEX.