Brighton
Coverage highlights foodservice and hospitality activity across this coastal city, with a focus on vibrant districts such as The Lanes, North Laine, Kemptown, and the seafront. Reporting includes restaurant and bar openings, independent brand growth, tourism and festival-driven footfall, sustainability-led concepts, and community dining culture. Insight is geared toward operators navigating high-street performance, weekend trade peaks, and local demand for casual, experiential, and plant-forward formats.
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May- 2020 -7 MayComment
The role food monitoring is playing in helping companies adapt to Covid-19
Adapt and pivot. These are two words that have grown in significance for the food and drink industry since the emergence of Covid-19. Bars, cafes and restaurants have closed their doors or shifted to pick-up or delivery-only services to adhere to social distancing rules. It is an uncertain time for…
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Mar- 2020 -26 MarchCoronavirus
Giggling Squid halts takeaway service
Giggling Squid has announced the temporary closure of its takeaway and Deliveroo services in light of the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The Thai food chain had originally continued operating a takeaway service from all of its sites across the UK, but has made the decision to close all its sites entirely…
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24 MarchCoronavirus
Deliveroo announces M&S partnership
Deliveroo has announced it will begin delivering a range of Marks and Spencer groceries to those who are self-isolating at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The takeaway delivery service signed a deal with Marks and Spencers that will now enable them to deliver essential items to families from participating stores…
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Feb- 2020 -28 FebruaryNews
8 great cities in the UK to launch a street food business our guide
Are you considering putting up a food business to break into the hospitality industry? There are many opportunities available to you, and some of them won’t require millions to fund. A street food stall or a food truck are both great models to follow, and you have plenty of options…
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13 FebruaryRestaurants
Police charge UK’s first cannabis restaurant owner with supplying cannabis
The owner of the UK’s first cannabis restaurant has been charged by Sussex police with supplying the drug. According to Brighton and Hove News, the owner of the Canna Kitchen in Brighton, Sammy Ben Rabah, believed his restaurant was working within the law until it was raided in May of…
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5 FebruaryRestaurants
Purezza ‘triples the size’ of Camden site
Vegan pizza joint, Purezza, has announced plans to “triple the size” of its Camden branch, making it “one of the biggest vegan restaurants in the UK”. The extension, which marks the first part of the restaurant’s expansion plans for 2020, includes a new sheltered garden for al-fresco dining, as well…
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4 FebruaryRestaurants
The Vurger Co. eyes 2020 expansion amid £1.4m investment
Vegan burger restaurant The Vurger Co. has secured a £1.4m investment as it continues its period of “rapid growth” in 2020. The vegan burger restaurant, which opened its first site in Shoreditch in March 2018 and its second in Canary Wharf in November 2018, will open two more sites in…
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Jan- 2020 -30 JanuaryNews
Lawrence McCarthy to join The Salt Room as head chef
Lawrence McCarthy will be joining The Salt Room as head chef, the Brighton restaurant has announced. McCarthy moves from his recent role as head chef at Michelin-starred Tristan’s in Horsham. Prior to this, he worked at two Michelin-starred Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley, and spent six years at The Ledbury…
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13 JanuaryComment
The future is digital: Why more restaurants are going cash-free
Only one in 10 transactions in the UK will use cash within the next decade. Or at least that’s what ITV’s Cash Free Britain? predicted on an ITV news report just last week. And this prediction is not as bold as it may seem upon first glance. Businesses and customers…
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Dec- 2019 -11 DecemberCafes and Coffee Shops
The Breakfast Club appoints Charlie McVeigh as chairman
The Breakfast Club has appointed Draft House founder and chairman, Charlie McVeigh as chairman. The news of the appointment follows the restaurant reporting record sales and “positive” like-for-like growth for the year. It revealed the first seven months of the current financial year ended with £9.7m worth of sales, increased…
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