Category: The Caterer

Outsourced key workers on minimum wage at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will get a pay rise of nearly £5,000 following intervention from trade union GMB London.

Protect your employees now as best you can and that loyalty will be repaid later both by staff and customers was the message of participants in a webinar earlier this week run by COREcruitment.

Fast-casual chain Leon has joined forces with actors Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory and Matt Lucas to launch a JustGiving campaign to raise £1m to fund 5,600 hot meals a day for NHS staff.

The 23-bedroom Scalloway hotel on Shetland has fallen into administration following “a difficult couple of years trading” and in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 17 jobs made redundant.

Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has agreed to pay his staff before his company receives financial support from the government’s wage reimbursement scheme, following pressure from almost 100 MPs and widespread media criticism.

China-based CIMC Capital has sold the Hampton by Hilton Bristol Airport for more than £24m to the Ability Group.

The minister for local government and homelessness has urged hotels providing rooms to support homeless people to remain open, and those that have closed to reconsider.

From *The Vegetarian Silver Spoon* (Phaidon, £35)

Vegetarianism and veganism are on the rise in the UK. According to the shopping comparison website finder.com, 12 million people claim they will be vegetarian, vegan or pescatarian by 2021.

The Food Standards Agency has issued guidance to food businesses working during the coronavirus pandemic.