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The latest industry news from the business journalists at Catering Today. We bring you the latest on what’s happening in the restaurants, bars and catering industry, with exclusive stories, analysis, best practice and industry comment.
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Aug- 2018 -14 August
London Cocktail Club opens new site in Bristol
London Cocktail Club (LCC), the cocktail bar group founded by world-renowned bartender JJ Goodman and investor James ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, has launched its first venue outside London. The new site is on the Triangle district in Bristol, returning to the city where Goodman and Hopkins filmed the BBC television series ‘The…
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14 August
Carlsberg launches ‘waterfall powered’ pub
Carlsberg UK has launched a ‘Carlsberg Cabin’ pub which was built using only sustainable materials and is powered with hydro and solar technology. The pub follows the rejuvenation of firm’s Carlsberg Export brand and its Danish Way campaign, which taps into the ‘hygge’ trend celebrating nature, work-life balance and cosiness.…
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13 August
Hospitality consumer spending increases 2.5% in July
Consumer spending in the hospitality sector increased by 2.5% in July, according to Visas’ UK Consumer Spending Index. The group said the warmer weather supported solid increases in spend across food and drink and hotels, restaurants and bars categories. However, overall household spending dropped 0.9% in July due to “disappointing…
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13 August
Honest Burgers opens first restaurants up north
Honest Burgers has announced it is to open its first Liverpool and Manchester restaurants, with the Manchester site set to open as soon as this summer. The London-based burger chain is said to be looking at moving outside of the capital due to ever increasing competition. Manchester Hall will host…
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13 August
HIT Training launches new qualification for health and social care sector
HIT Training has become the first training provider to launch a Level 2 Award in Professional Cookery in Health and Social Care. The company will be working in partnership with St Andrew’s Healthcare to deliver it to an initial cohort of learners. The qualification, which is specifically for people who…
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13 August
Corbin & King launch ‘learn while you earn’ apprenticeship scheme
Restaurant group Corbin & King has launched a new apprenticeship scheme, giving its employees the opportunity to learn while they earn. The scheme was designed to address the industry-wide shortage of skilled chefs and underpins the group’s mantra: ‘hire for will, train for skill’. The scheme has been devised in…
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13 August
Lush to offer free coffee
Cosmetics retailer Lush is to offer free coffee in an attempt to cut down on single use coffee cups. Customers in Lush’s Soho store will be eligible for the coffee if they bring along a reusable cup between 7am and 3pm in the four weeks commencing 14 August. The coffees…
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13 August
Star Pubs & Bars hires Greene King’s Paul Hunter as soft drinks buyer
Star Pubs and Bars has appointed Paul Hunter as its first dedicated soft drinks buyer as the group works to boost its soft drinks category support. To take advantage of the growing popularity of soft drinks, the group is also making Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) its official category partner, installing…
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10 August
Wagamama ‘outperforms competitors’ consistently for four years
Restaurant chain Wagamama has said it “traded ahead of the competition consistently for over four years (220 weeks)” as its latest financial results showed a 7.4% like-for-like sales growth in the year to 29 April 2018. The group’s turnover increased 11.1% to £71.1m in Q4 and it reported 7.7% UK…
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10 August
Stonegate Pub Company invests £205,000 in pub garden
Stonegate Pub Company has announced it has invested £205,000 in the pub garden at its Minories pub in London’s Tower Hill. The refurbishment has seen the garden double in size with the new area able to seat 200 people. The land the garden has expanded into was previously out of…
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