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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Oct- 2020 -12 OctoberCoronavirus
PM unveils three-tiered lockdown system
Prime minister Boris Johnson this afternoon announced a new three-tier lockdown system that will see some hospitality businesses in the North-West forced to close from Wednesday. Under the new system, different rules for regions will be classified as being on ‘medium’, ‘high’ or ‘very high’ alert depending on the rate…
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12 OctoberCoronavirus
Almost 50% of hospitality staff remain on furlough, study finds
Approximately 43% of the hospitality workforce remains on the government’s furlough scheme, according to new research from hospitality software provider Fourth. The latest joint study indicates that many hospitality workers’ jobs “hang in the balance”, and that nationwide footfall is falling again, despite the momentum generated by August’s Eat Out…
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5 OctoberComment
Unprofitable hotel kitchens cannot be sustained, but food delivery holds the answer
Nationwide lockdown is over, staycations are booming, and yet across the hotel industry, thousands of venues are struggling with low occupancy rates, particularly hotels in city centres, not to mention the considerable costs incurred as owners go to extreme lengths to make patrons feel safe during their stay. In an…
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Sep- 2020 -17 SeptemberRestaurants
Albert’s Schloss co-founders plan new Manchester restaurant
Albert’s Schloss co-founders, Adelaide Winter, Joel Wilkinson and Daniel Mullen, have submitted a licence application for a new café, bar, restaurant and event space to be part of the major “40 Swan Street” development in New Cross. Swan Street Firehouse will be constructed inside an old MOT station on the…
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14 SeptemberCoronavirus
A quarter of licensed premises yet to reopen
Nearly a quarter of licensed premises were yet to reopen at the end of August, according to the latest market recovery monitor from CGA and AlixPartners. Its latest data found that the London market was “particularly slow” to recover, while only 76.3% of sites have returned to trading since the…
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10 SeptemberNews
Hospitality sector to ‘Walk for Calm’ amid mental health crisis
Leading hospitality organisations, alongside mental health charities, are backing the ‘Walk for Calm’ initiative to promote better mental health in the industry. Fronted by charities Hospitality Action and CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), the initiative will see multiple socially distanced, 20km fundraising walks take place in London, Birmingham and Manchester. …
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3 SeptemberRestaurants
Naveen Handa acquires East Coast Concepts out of administration
An investment group led by Naveen Handa of leisure company The Cairn Group has acquired restaurant and bar group East Coast Concepts out of administration. The Manchester-based restaurant and bar group, which operates the Neighbourhood and Victors brands, has five sites across the UK, including Hale, Alderley Edge, Liverpool, Leeds…
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Aug- 2020 -27 AugustRestaurants
Wahaca to shutter a third of sites
Wahaca is set to shutter more than a third of its sites, following impacted sales due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The group is now planning to close 10 of its 28 sites. Branches affected by the closure include sites in Bluewater, Kent; St Pauls, London; Liverpool; Manchester and Bristol. Alongside…
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12 AugustCoronavirus
Manchester pubs flouting guidance, undercover report finds
Pubs and bars in a Manchester borough are ignoring Covid-19 guidance and potentially endangering customers, an undercover Sky News investigation has found. A team of undercover reporters posed as walk-in customers at a range of pubs and bars in a Greater Manchester suburb, and discovered the majority of sites were…
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Jul- 2020 -23 JulyBusiness
Chilango set to call in administrators
Mexican fast food chain Chilango is reportedly set to call in administrators, potentially putting 152 jobs at risk of redundancy. According to The Guardian, the move could lead to the closure of Chilango’s 12 restaurants located in London, Manchester and Birmingham. Further to this, investors who contributed to the group’s…
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