Manchester
Coverage highlights foodservice and hospitality developments across Manchester, with a focus on high-activity areas such as the Northern Quarter, Ancoats, Spinningfields, and Deansgate. Reporting includes restaurant and bar openings, independent brand growth, investment trends, and evolving footfall dynamics. Insight is tailored for operators tracking urban trading patterns, premium casual formats, and consumer behaviour in one of the UK’s most competitive city markets.
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Jan- 2021 -19 JanuaryRestaurants
Prezzo’s chair joins Build Back Better Council
Karen Jones, the executive chair of Prezzo, will represent the hospitality industry on the government’s new Build Back Better Council. The new business council will be co-chaired by the prime minister and chancellor, with the business secretary as a standing member and other cabinet ministers attending as required. Jones is…
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18 JanuaryCoronavirus
Sacha Lord calls for hospitality to reopen alongside non-essential retail
Sacha Lord, Greater Manchester’s night time economy advisor, has claimed that hospitality “must reopen” alongside non-essential retail as part of a return to the Covid-19 tiered system. The comment came in response to Dominc Raab’s confirmation on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show that a phased transition out of national…
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14 JanuaryCatering Companies
Chartwells to add free breakfasts to school food parcels
Chartwells, the UK’s largest school meals caterer, has announced it will add free breakfasts to school food parcels from 25 January. The caterer, which works with more than 3,000 schools, made national headlines when a picture of its free school meals bag went viral on Twitter and was widely criticised.…
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13 JanuaryRestaurants
14-year-old boy charged with murder of stockport restaurant owner
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of Mohammed Islam, a stockport restaurant owner, following a robbery on 8 January 2021. Islam who was also known as Nowab Miah was the owner of Marple Spice, an Indian restaurant in the greater Manchester area. The incident occurred just after…
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6 JanuaryNews
Flight Club eyes Bristol opening
Flight Club, a darts-themed chain of bars, has applied for a premises license at Corn Street, Bristol, according to Bristol Live. The chain already offers its mix of drinks and games in Birmingham, Manchester, and London, with a Leeds establishment also coming soon. With groups of up to 20 allowed…
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Dec- 2020 -23 DecemberFood and Drink
Deliveroo pledges to match customer tips
Deliveroo has announced its pledge to match customers’ in-app tips to local restaurants hit by Covid restrictions. The company said it will match tips paid to eligible restaurants up to a total value of £60,000 from today until midnight on Christmas Eve up to the value of £20 per tip.…
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15 DecemberNews
Tier 3 will cause rise in business failures, UKH warns
UKHospitality has warned businesses will be pushed towards failure and more jobs will be put at risk as a result of the government’s announcement to move London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire into Tier 3 this week. The trade body said that the government’s tier system places an “unfair,…
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10 DecemberCoronavirus
‘No hard evidence’ behind curfew, admits Vallance
Sir Patrick Vallance has admitted there was “no hard evidence” behind the Government’s controversial 10pm curfew rule imposed on hospitality businesses under the previous tiered restriction system. Speaking to ministers on the Commons science committee yesterday, when asked by the committee whether there was any specific modelling behind the restrictions…
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8 DecemberRestaurants
Barburrito secures future with sale to co-founders
Barburrito, the Mexican eatery, has secured its future through an administration sale securing new investment in the business. Barburrito chairman Graham Turner leads a new investment in the business, alongside other private investors, backing the existing management team of Morgan Davies, founder and CEO and Steve Herring, finance director. The…
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8 DecemberComment
Three steps to getting your business ready for Natasha’s Law
From October 2021, all food businesses in the UK selling pre-packed for direct sale food products (PPDS), will be required to clearly label all ingredients and allergens for the benefit of consumers. Food nutrition and labelling experts, Nutritics, have partnered with experts from Manchester Metropolitan University, EuroFIR and the Quadram…
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