Features
The Features section on Catering Today offers in-depth coverage of the people, businesses, and ideas driving the UK hospitality industry. Through interviews, case studies, and long-form reports, it highlights innovation, leadership, and best practice across restaurants, pubs, catering firms, and suppliers. From technology adoption and menu development to workforce strategy and sustainability, Catering Today’s features provide hospitality professionals with detailed insight into the trends and transformations shaping the sector’s commercial future.
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Nov- 2021 -8 November
Q&A with Alan Morgan, CEO of The Big Table Group
What is the history of the business? The Big Table Group was formed last summer to acquire and operate the Bella Italia, Café Rouge and Las Iguanas restaurant brands. In a process handled by AlixPartners, parts of the business formerly known as Casual Dining Group were acquired from administration, preserving…
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Sep- 2021 -29 September
Harrogate welcomes back the Ice Cream and Artisan Food Show
The Ice Cream and Artisan Food Show will be held 8–10 February 2022 at the Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate. In addition to everything that the makers and sellers of ice cream need to run their businesses, the show will also include exhibitors selling coffee and other beverages, cakes, confectionary and…
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21 September
Driving sustainable change
Juliane Caillouette-Noble is the managing director of The Sustainable Restaurant Association, which aims to drive change towards an environmentally restorative and socially progressive hospitality sector. The SRA works with businesses across the hospitality sector to create a unified definition of sustainability within the industry through it’s food made good programme,…
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Jul- 2021 -21 July
Fixing the staffing shortage goes beyond changing self-isolation rules
It’s not new news, the hospitality sector is facing a staffing shortage crisis. A study conducted by CGA and Fourth last month found nine in 10 hospitality business owners expect employee shortages this coming year. Yet, the problem persists without showing any signs of letting up. With the 19 July…
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16 July
Halfords teams up with the Ice Cream Alliance
Halfords’ expert teams at its 750 outlets are providing 5-point vehicle checks and maintenance follow-ups to make sure ice cream vans are in tip-top shape ahead of what promises to be a bumper year for British getaways. The free vehicle check is available to all ice cream van operators in…
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16 July
New dispute resolution service offers fresh hope to solve bank complaints
The Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) launched earlier this year – what does it offer businesses in the hospitality sector? The BBRS helps medium sized businesses find solutions to unresolved complaints against their bank, providing personalised support from highly skilled and experienced dispute resolution specialists. There are around 40,000 current…
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14 July
Becoming a scalable business through successful crowdfunding
It’s one thing to identify a growing market, establish an innovative route into the sector, and reach a point of scalability, but to continually grow a startup is another ballgame completely. Crowdfunding can provide the path needed to beat that game, but also the opportunity to score an unfortunate own…
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5 July
Are apps the answer to tackling food waste in the hospitality industry?
‘Magic bags’ from the surplus food app ‘Too Good To Go’ have become something of a viral sensation across social media channels such as TikTok over the past couple of months. The 30 second videos of savvy consumers bragging about the dozens of baked goods they scored from Greggs or…
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May- 2021 -21 May
Ensure your guests remain charged
It is nearing summer 2021 and we can see how industries have been impacted by the world events so far. Out of these testing times new ideas have been emerging especially when it comes to waves of digital innovation. As the hospitality industry is on the pathway to a full…
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Apr- 2021 -27 April
Luxury dining in the wake of a pandemic
The taste of widely delicious food, a hypnotising tinkle of jazz piano and the reassuring pop of a bottle of the finest red – the luxury dining experience seems, for many of us, a distant memory. However, with vaccine production and distribution well and truly underway, this indulgent practice might…
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