People
The People section on Catering Today highlights the leaders, teams, and professionals shaping the UK hospitality and catering industry. It features executive appointments, career moves, leadership insights, and profiles of influential figures across restaurants, pubs, and catering businesses. With coverage of workforce trends, recruitment, and management strategies, Catering Today provides hospitality professionals with updates and inspiration from the individuals driving innovation, growth, and excellence across the sector.
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Sep- 2020 -18 September
Mayor of London urges government to extend business rates holiday
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and London Councils have joined together to urge the Government to extend the business rates holiday and help protect thousands of jobs in London and across the country. Businesses in the retail, hospitality, leisure and childcare sectors are currently benefiting from 100% relief from…
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15 September
Domino’s Pizza to make 5,000 new hires
Domino’s Pizza has announced that it will make 5,000 new hires after the takeaway chain saw sales increase 5.5% during the first quarter of 2020. Up to 1,000 of these new jobs will be apprenticeship positions under the Government’s new Kickstart scheme. The scheme allows for employers to create new…
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14 September
The Big Table appoints Mike Tye as chairman of The Big Table
The Big Table, which was recently formed to acquire and operate the Bella Italia, Café Rouge and Las Iguanas restaurant brands, has appointed Mike Tye as its non-executive chairman. With “extensive” board-level experience across the out-of-home food and drink market, the company said Tye will work closely with Epiris, the…
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11 September
Institute of Hospitality appoints new chair
The Institute of Hospitality (IOH), the UK based international professional body for the industry, has announced Kellie Rixon as its new chair. The announcement was made at IOH’s annual general meeting, presented online on 10 September. Reporting record results for 2019, outgoing chair, Robin Sheppard, noted the ongoing evolution of…
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9 September
‘Hospitality Titans’ programme to launch in September
A group of hospitality professionals have launched a new platform to help “struggling” industry owners in a post-Covid-19 climate. Entitled ‘Hospitality Titans’, the programme aims to set up key events so members can network with peers, investors and innovators as well as listen to guest speakers and receive important industry…
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2 September
Dominos announces board and CFO appointments
Dominos has announced that Natalia Barsegiyan and Lynn Fordham will join its board as independent non-executive directors, with effect from 16 September 2020. In addition, the pizza chain announced that Neil Smith, the current interim CFO, has been appointed as permanent CFO. Following their appointment, Barsegiyan and Fordham will be…
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Aug- 2020 -27 August
Majority of office workers in catering sector feel unsafe returning to work after Covid-19
Only 28% of office workers in the retail, catering and leisure sector feel safe returning to work after the pandemic, despite new health and safety measures that have been put in place. This is according to new research from insurance provider Protectivity, which asked office workers around the UK how…
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19 August
Michael Caines Collection appoints Liam Finnegan as group executive chef
Acclaimed chef restaurateur and hotel owner, Michael Caines has announced the appointment of Liam Finnegan as group executive chef of the Michael Caines Collection as of 8 September 2020. The news follows Caines’ recent acquisition of the former Rick Stein Restaurant in Porthleven, Cornwall. With a working relationship spanning 14…
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18 August
Ali Nia joins The Drunken Butler as partner and GM
Ali Nia has been named as partner and GM at The Drunken Butler Restaurant in Farringdon. Nia, who was formerly general manager at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, has teamed up with Yuma Hashemi at the Clerkenwell-based restaurant, strengthening its front-of-house and management team. In his new role, Nia will work alongside…
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18 August
Compass Group appoints director
Compass Group, the multinational contract foodservice group, has announced the appointment of Ian Meakins as both non-executive chairman and director of the company. He will join the board on 1 September 2020, and take over as chairman on 1 December 2020, when Paul Walsh will step down from the board. …
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