Category: The Caterer

Hospitality businesses in rural areas will require government support until 2021 in order to survive the coronavirus pandemic, Robin Hutson has said in a letter to Boris Johnson.

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Jon Knight, former chief executive of the Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, has joined the Restaurant Group (TRG), which operates brands including Wagamama and Frankie & Benny’s.

The government has been accused of basing its exclusion of tronc and service charge from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on a “completely mistaken assumption”.

Anne Pierce, chief executive of Springboard, is to retire after 23 years at the helm of the charity.

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has raised approximately £141m through a share placing and has said it is starting to plan for a reopening of its sites in late June.

The new National Food Strategy is arguably Henry Dimbleby’s biggest challenge to date. The co-founder of Leon is working across government and with the public to map out a new revolutionary vision for the UK’s beleaguered food and farming system.

Business rates experts at Colliers International are concerned about the lack of urgency many local authorities are showing in paying out much-needed grants to businesses and about how fairly many of these have been allocated.

Results revealed today from a survey of hospitality businesses paint a gloomy picture of low expectations from operators in a sector that is the UK’s third highest employer.