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Stay ahead with curated reporting on new restaurant, pub, bar, café, and catering openings across the UK. This highlights the latest venue launches, from independents to multi-site operators, and offers behind-the-scenes insights into concept development, site selection, kitchen design, menu strategy, and operational planning. Whether you’re tracking competitors, scouting for inspiration, or evaluating expansion trends, this coverage helps hospitality professionals understand where investment is going and how new openings are shaping the foodservice landscape. Essential reading for chefs, operators, landlords, and F&B executives watching the market evolve.

  • Apr- 2018 -
    16 April
    RestaurantsLemongrass

    Lemongrass Group looks for equity partner for continued growth

    The award winning Lemongrass Group has announced it is seeking a business partner following the opening of its 13th branch. The company, which makes a profit of £15,000 per month per site, will listen to offers for up to 50% of the company from the right partner. Expansion until now…

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  • 13 April
    GovernmentHospitality Apprenticeships

    Low-skilled jobs rebadged as apprenticeships by firms, says report

    Employers are relabelling low-quality, low skilled and and often low-wage roles as ‘apprenticeships’, according to a new report. As part of the government’s wider package of reforms to apprenticeships, groups of employers have come together to write the new ‘apprenticeship standards’. Some employers have used this opportunity to generate high-quality…

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  • 12 April
    PeopleTGI Fridays

    TGI Fridays hit with first ever strike over tips and minimum wage

    TGI Fridays staff members are to be balloted by trade union Unite for strike action over tips and minimum wage. In the first of a series of strikes over the coming months, waiting staff from the chain’s Milton Keynes and Covent Garden restaurants will be balloted from 18 April to…

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  • 10 April
    Food and DrinkBidfood

    Bidfood expands to the north with new Penrith depot

    Foodservice provider Bidfood has expanded its reach in the north of England, with the opening of a new depot in Penrith, Cumbria. The depot was acquired from Blakemore Cash and Carry and its experienced local staff previously employed at the site will be transferred over to the Bidfood team. Alongside…

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  • 5 April
    NewsScottish chef to launch The Scotsman Café and Bar

    Scottish chef to launch The Scotsman Café and Bar

    Scottish chef and Masterchef: The Professionals knockout week finalist Chris Niven has been unveiled as executive head chef of The Scotsman Grand Café and Bar. The new independent dining and drinking venue is set to open in Edinburgh this summer. Located on the North Bridge in the former advertising hall…

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  • 5 April
    Food and DrinkMoro and Morito

    Moro and Morito founders launch bespoke catering company

    Sam and Sam Clark of Moro and Morito are launching a brand new bespoke outside catering company, Casa Moro, and new private dining room space in Hackney Wick, in May this year. Casa Moro will offer Moro and Morito’s unique Spanish, Middle Eastern and Cretan flavours, created and cooked by Morito head…

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  • Mar- 2018 -
    29 March
    BusinessNisbets

    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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  • 19 March
    PeopleBancone

    Former Locanda Locatelli chef enlisted for new Italian restaurant

    Louis Korovilas, a former chef at London’s Michelin-starred Locanda Locatelli, has taken on the head chef role at a new Italian restaurant in Covent Garden. Korovilas has also previously worked at the Michelin-starred French restaurant Pied à Terre. The new eatery, called Bancone, will focus on fresh pasta and is…

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  • 16 March
    Food and DrinkScottish food and drink exports reach £6bn

    Scottish food and drink exports reach £6bn

    Overseas Scottish food and drink exports were worth approximately £6 billion in 2017 – almost £570 million more than 2016. Food exports were valued at about £1.6 billion – a rise of 15% (£214 million) during the same period. Exports of food to Europe were worth £1.1  billion after an…

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  • 16 March
    RestaurantsNorthern Restaurant and Bar

    Northern restaurant and bar scene dominates London

    New analysis by Northern Restaurant and Bar, trade show for the Northern hospitality industry and hospitality data and insight specialists, CGA has shown that the “M62 corridor” spanning Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds has become a hotspot for new restaurants and bars. The number of city centre outlets within those locations…

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