All About The Cooks, an online food marketplace, has announced its launch in Bath this month. The online marketplace is a platform for home cooking enthusiasts to share their meals with residents in their area. The company said that its launch in Bristol saw over 1,000 orders of home-cooked food…
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An arm of Goldman Sachs is amongst potential bidders to acquire Subway after the business was put on sale, according to Sky News. Sources said that the Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) joins Bain Capital, TPG and Asda shareholder TDR Capital as potential new owners of the business, all of…
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Award-winning West African restaurant Chishuru has launched a crowdfunding page to help raise money for a new opening in central London. Drawing from her Nigerian heritage, chef and founder Joké Bakare opened the restaurant in 2020 in a 32-cover location in Brixton Village which was originally supposed to only last…
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Jamie Oliver Restaurants has planned to treble its footprint and expand to new geographies in India by opening 40 more casual dining sites. Jamie’s in India is a partnership between Dolomite Restaurants Pvt, the master franchisee of Jamie’s Italian, Jamie’s Pizzeria and Jamie’s Diner in India, and Jamie Oliver Restaurant…
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One in three people in the UK said they can’t afford to tip in restaurants, according to data from digital payments provider Take Payments. From a survey of 2000 people, Take Payments found that 36% of people will always leave a tip with 15% of people saying they have had…
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UKHospitality has revealed that 32% of hospitality firms are at risk of failure within the next year, despite hospitality sales in 2022 surpassing pre-Covid levels. The hospitality association said this is because sales remain “significantly behind 2019” in real terms due to inflation. The UKHospitality Quarterly Tracker, in association with…
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Inflation slowed for the third consecutive month in January to 10.1%, down from 10.5% in December, but remains close to a near 40-year high. According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), on a monthly basis, inflation fell by 0.6% in January 2023, compared with a…
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Sodexo has gifted £2m of its apprenticeship levy to support a number of small companies and not-for-profit organisations across the UK. The food services and facilities management business first took the decision to “gift with purpose” a portion of the apprenticeship levy it pays in 2019. In August 2021, it…
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The hospitality recruitment initiative, Hospitality Rising, has announced that its ‘Rise Fast, Work Young’ campaign has generated some 55,000 applications to fill job vacancies within the sector a year after its launch. At the same time, the campaign also reached almost 10 million impressions on TikTok. ‘Rise Fast, Work Young’,…
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Hospitality businesses are bracing for a 101% increase in energy bills this quarter, compared with the same period last year, according to the joint Q1 Hospitality Members Survey by UKHospitality, the British Beer and Pub Association, the British Institute of Innkeeping and Hospitality Ulster. The figures have been raised directly…
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