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.

Apr- 2020 -

3 April

Domino’s appoints Neil Smith as interim CFO

Domino’s Pizza Group has announced the appointment of Neil Smith as in interim chief financial officer with effect from 15 April 2020. Smith most recently served as the CFO of Ei Group (formerly Enterprise Inns) from 2011 until its recent takeover by Stonegate Pub Company. He has also held senior…
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Mar- 2020 -

31 March

UKH and Caterer.com partner to help hospitality workers find 26,000 short-term roles

With an estimated 500,000 hospitality workers expected to be made redundant or temporarily out of work due to COVID-19, hospitality jobs board, Caterer.com, and UKHospitality, have partnered to create a new jobs hub that will help hospitality workers find short-term roles in other sectors. While the pandemic has reduced the…
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31 March

Domino’s appoints Dominic Paul as new CEO

Domino’s Pizza Group has announced the appointment of Dominic Paul as its new CEO, with effect from 6 April. Paul will also join the board as CEO on 1 May 2020. Most recently, he served as chief executive officer and managing director of Costa Coffee. He led the Costa brand…
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20 March

Co-op creates 5,000 new roles for hospitality staff displaced by Covid-19

The Co-op has announced plans to create 5,000 store-based roles in a bid to provide temporary employment for hospitality workers who have lost their jobs, amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The retailer said recruitment procedures have been simplified so that candidates can apply for positions by walking into their nearest…
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10 March

Domino’s Pizza appoints Matt Shattock as director and chairman

Domino’s Pizza has announced the appointment of Matt Shattock as director and chairman, with effect from 16 March. Shattock will also be a member of the remuneration committee and chairman of the nomination committee. He currently holds the position of non-executive chairman of spirits company, Beam Suntory, which he has…
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5 March

BBPA appoints Phil Whitehead as chairman

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has announced the appointment of Phil Whitehead as chairman, following a vote at the trade associations general meeting. Whitehead will succeed Simon Emeny, chief executive of Fuller Smith and Turner, who has been chairman of the BBPA for two years. He currently holds…
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4 March

Read’s restaurant appoints new head chef

Read’s restaurant, in Faversham, announced it has appointed Frederick Forster as its new head chef. Forster has worked in the restaurant industry since the age of 18, having worked at The Savoy in the early stages of his career. In 1990, he joined Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxford as…
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4 March

TGI Fridays appoints Alan Clark as its new CFO

Restaurant brand TGI Fridays UK has announced the appointment of Alan Clark as its new CFO, among a raft of other appointments. Clark’s appointment follows several changes to TGI Fridays leadership team following the appointment of CEO Robert Cook last year. Prior to joining TGI Friday UK, Cook held the…
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3 March

Hospitality is the most desired career option for over 50s, study finds

Midlife workers could “shift the face” of the hospitality industry, as industry “boomerangs” could help plug the sector’s labour shortage while also meeting consumer demand for workers over 50, new research reveals. The research, conducted by the UK’s largest hospitality jobs board, Caterer.com, revealed that 2.5 million people over 50…
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Feb- 2020 -

28 February

Sodexo appoints new CEO to lead corporate services business

Sodexo has appointed Julie Ennis as the new CEO for its corporate services business in the UK and Ireland, effective 1 March. It follows the expansion of current CEO David Bailey’s role to oversee Sodexo’s corporate services business in North America. Ennis joined Sodexo in February 2019 as managing director…
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