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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Jul- 2018 -17 July
Equinoxe Solutions appoints new chairman
Purchasing group Equinoxe Solutions has appointed Mark Aylwin as its new chairman. Aylwin has been in the food and drinks industry for more than 35 years, having served on the Boards of Booker Group, Blueheath, Conviviality, Musgrave GB and Safeway. He has also made an equity investment in the business…
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17 July
UKHospitality expresses concern over ‘dwindling immigrant’ numbers
UKHospitality has reacted with “considerable alarm” at the news that net EU migration has fallen to 100,000. According to figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), migration to the UK from the EU reached its lowest point in four years. This figure is still higher than the government’s aim…
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13 July
Wimbledon caterers paid same hourly rate for night shifts as day
Caterers at Wimbledon tennis championships are being paid the same hourly rate for night shifts as day shifts by catering company Compass Group, it has emerged. The caterer’s wages are below the London Living Wage at £8 per hour it was discovered by The Guardian. It is not illegal to…
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12 July
Pret to open outlet run by former homeless staff
Sandwich chain Pret A Manger has announced plans to open an outlet run by staff who were once homeless. Pret has run a ‘Rising Stars’ programme for 10 years, where it trains people who are homeless in an effort to break the cycle of homelessness. In a blog written by…
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11 July
Pep Guardiola makes first foray into restaurants with Tast
Manchester City FC manager Pep Guardiola is set to open his first restaurant in the city alongside Michelin star chef Paco Perez and the Fazenda Group. The restaurant, named Tast, is set to open on 20 July specialising in food native to the pair’s home of Catalonia. Guardiola, alongside his…
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10 July
Chef Andrew Wong to open new Kym’s restaurant
Chef Andrew Wong’s latest restaurant Kym’s is set to open its doors in London later this year in September. The new outlet will be located in Bloomberg Arcade, at Bloomberg’s new European headquarters in the City, with aims to be a modern premium casual Chinese restaurant with a relaxed and…
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5 July
Emily Roux to open first restaurant with husband Diego Ferrari
Emily Roux, the daughter of Michel Roux Jr is to open her first restaurant alongside her husband Diego Ferrari – head chef at her father’s twice Michelin-star-winning Le Gavroche restaurant. The restaurant – called Caractere – will open in Notting Hill, focusing on simple French and Italian dishes. The couple…
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4 July
Pierre Koffmann and Marco Pierre White launch new restaurant
Chefs Pierre Koffmann and Marco Pierre White are working with The Abbey Hotel in Bath to launch a new restaurant in September 2018. Called Koffmann & Mr White’s, the joint venture is a brasserie style eatery that will serve a mix of English and French classics that gained the two…
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3 July
Suffolk pub let to award-winning restaurateur
The Queens Head in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk has been let to local award-winning restaurateur, Ben Hutton, who currently operates Ben’s Restaurant, just four doors down from The Queens Head. Hutton’s food offering will focus on ‘Food to Fork’, ensuring that the meat is sourced locally from free range Suffolk…
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2 July
Millennials account for 30% of hotel and restaurant revenue
Hoteliers and restaurateurs estimate that a third of their annual revenue now comes from the millennial generation, according to new research. In a report, ‘Finding the balance: human touch vs high tech’, international law firm CMS showed millennials – people who reached adulthood in the early 21st Century – were…
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