Leicester
Coverage highlights foodservice and hospitality activity in this key Midlands city, including new restaurant and pub openings, independent operator moves, investment updates, local supply chain developments, and regional consumer trends. Reporting offers insight into how the area’s dining and drinking landscape is evolving, with relevance for operators, landlords, and stakeholders tracking growth beyond major metropolitan hubs.
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Nov- 2018 -27 NovemberFood and Drink
Steak house chain launches the ‘Brexit Burger’
To help Britons count down to the Brexit deadline, steak house chain Steakout will be offering a Brexit Burger and French fries meal. The Brexit Burger will be a “topsy-turvy concoction of cultures” with a British beef patty, smothered in neutral Swiss cheese, Steakout’s own burger sauce, some Spanish Lettuce…
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Oct- 2018 -5 OctoberRestaurants
Twickenham Stadium to open new restaurant in partnership with Tom Kerridge
Twickenham Stadium is to open a new restaurant in partnership with Tom Kerridge as part of an £81m refurbishment. An 18-month construction schedule has seen 6,700 sq mt added to the stadium concourse for 4,500 new hospitality season ticket holders, which will include the 1000-cover restaurant, named The Lock. The…
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4 OctoberApps & Technology
Workers from McDonald’s, Wetherspoons, UberEats, TGI Fridays and Deliveroo hold demonstration
Workers from McDonald’s, Wetherspoons, UberEats, TGI Fridays and Deliveroo are holding a demonstration in Leicester Square from 11am, with some workers on strike. GMB Union regional officer, Steve Garelick, said: “The continued attacks made on workers from rate reduction without consultation to gratuities being hived off show that there is…
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Sep- 2018 -20 SeptemberPeople
McDonalds, TGI and Wetherspoons staff to go on ‘historic strike’ for better pay
Hospitality staff from McDonalds, TGI Fridays and Wetherspoons will be coming together to collectively strike for better pay and union recognition. In what has been described as a “historic move” by the organisers, hospitality workers in the McStrike, TGI Fridays Strike and SpoonStrike [JD Wetherspoon] will stage coordinated walkouts to…
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Aug- 2018 -7 AugustRestaurants
Benito’s Hat secures £1m funding for 10th anniversary
Mexican restaurant Benito’s Hat has secured £1m investment to fund a three-year growth plan in London and throughout the UK. The investment coincides with the brand’s 10th anniversary and is made up entirely from existing investors, the majority of which comes from private equity investment firm Calculus Capital. The investment…
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Jul- 2018 -2 JulyGovernment
40 government officials poisoned by Diwali food
As many as 40 people working for an unnamed government department in Leicester have been struck down with food poisoning after ordering “culturally relevant food” to celebrate the end of Diwali 2017. The incident prompted Leicester City Council to commission a report investigating the incident. It said: “To celebrate the…
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Jun- 2018 -1 JuneBusiness
Catering company Wilson Vale sees record turnover
Catering company Wilson Vale has announced record turnover for the year ending 31 December 2017, rising £5.3m compared with the previous year. The company also confirmed pre-tax profits rose from £2m to £2.4m during the same period. The company won several new contracts over the last financial year, and currently…
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Mar- 2018 -29 MarchBusiness
Nisbets adds another store to its retail portfolio
Catering equipment supplier, Nisbets, has further added to its growing retail portfolio with the opening of a new store in Bayswater, west London. The new store – Nisbets’ 32nd retail outlet – will officially open its doors at 9.00am on Tuesday 3 April. To celebrate the arrival of the new…
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