News
The News section on Catering Today delivers the latest updates and developments across the UK hospitality and catering industry. Covering restaurants, pubs, quick service brands, and catering groups, it reports on company announcements, market performance, government policy, and sector-wide trends. With a focus on commercial and operational impact, Catering Today’s news coverage keeps hospitality professionals informed of the events and decisions shaping business conditions and strategic opportunities across the sector.
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Jul- 2022 -5 July
McDonald’s unveils leadership promotions
McDonald’s has announced it has promoted Kevin Ozan to senior executive vice president of Strategic Initiatives, Ian Borden to chief financial officer, and Marion Gross to global chief supply chain officer, effective 1 September 2022. Current global chief supply chain officer, Francesca DeBiase, is set to retire from McDonald’s, effective…
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5 July
BrewDog to open its largest bar in London this August
BrewDog, an independent Scottish craft brewer, is opening its largest bar on 18 August in London Waterloo Station. BrewDog Waterloo will be the biggest BrewDog location in the world at 27,000sq ft, with two floors of craft beer, spirits, food, and entertainment in the centre of the city. The bar…
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5 July
Hospitality sector R&D spending falls 21%
Research and development (R&D) spending in the hospitality industry fell 21% in the Q1 of 2022, according to the latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) data analysed by funding specialist Catax. The ONS published its Q1 2022 statistics for R&D spending on 30 June, Catax states that “spending on R&D…
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5 July
Young’s Q1 revenues increase 39.7%
Young & Co.’s Brewery (Young’s) has announced that in the first thirteen weeks of 2022 (Q1), revenues increased by 39.7% in total and by 34.9% on a like-for-like basis against last year, building on the “strong” trading momentum achieved in the final quarter of 2021. Young’s said that this year…
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5 July
Coaching Inn Group acquires Forest Park Hotel and restaurant
The Coaching Inn Group, a subsidiary of RedCat Pub Company, has revealed it has completed the acquisition of Forest Park Hotel, Brockenhurst for an undisclosed sum. The Country Hotel and Inn is located in the heart of the New Forest, on the edge of the village of Brockenhurst with 40…
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5 July
KERB partners with McCain for Streets Ahead launch
KERB has announced a new partnership with McCain that will see it launch ‘Streets Ahead’, a one-day workshop, which is said to be “the first big move” for a new social enterprise that provides food start-up workshops to over 100 less-advantaged people, free of charge. Following the one-day workshop, all…
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4 July
Gusto Italian to expand South amid ‘resilient’ trading
Gusto Italian, the premium casual dining restaurant group, has announced it is looking to grow its estate and expand further South over the coming year. The announcement comes as the company revealed its turnover hit £12.4m in the full year ending September 2021 and an EBITDA of £585,000, which the…
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4 July
Number of pubs falls by over 7,000 in past decade
The number of English and Welsh pubs fell below 40,000 for the first time during the first half of 2022 with pub numbers having fallen by 7,107 in the last 10 years, new research has revealed. Research by the real estate adviser Altus Group, found that the overall number of…
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4 July
John Lewis launch chef academy to help hospitality sector
John Lewis Partnership (the Partnership) has launched its own Chef Academy to help address the current shortage of qualified chefs in the UK A joint survey released last week by UKHospitality, the British Institute of Innkeeping, and the British Beer and Pub Association, revealed that staff shortages in the hospitality…
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4 July
The Restaurant Group appoints non-executive director
The Restaurant Group has announced the appointment of Loraine Woodhouse as a non-executive director. She joins the company’s board as of today’s date (4 July) and will become a member of both the audit and nomination committees. Woodhouse is currently a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee at…
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