West Midlands
Regional coverage of foodservice and hospitality activity across the West Midlands, with reporting from key areas such as Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, and Solihull. This section highlights restaurant and pub openings, catering contracts, local supplier news, and policy developments affecting operators throughout the region. Designed for chefs, business owners, and F&B leaders, the content offers insight into trading conditions, investment trends, and consumer behaviour shaping the Midlands market.
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Feb- 2024 -6 FebruaryPubs and Bars
Compass commits over £3m Apprenticeship Levy funding
Compass Group UK and Ireland has announced it has supported 250 apprentice programmes across 170 organisations, committing over £3m of its Apprenticeship Levy. These funds have helped small and medium-sized enterprises, charities and social enterprises to invest in and develop their staff. Large employers that pay the Apprenticeship Levy can…
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Oct- 2023 -3 OctoberFeatures
A career in hospitality doesn’t have to be short-term: Q&A with Cairn Group
What were the key findings of the research conducted by Cairn Hotel Group regarding staff perceptions in the hospitality industry? The findings from our new research are alarming and highlight the concerning feelings of many people towards our sector – something that has been an issue for many years. From…
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Aug- 2023 -31 AugustCafes and Coffee Shops
NHS-funded wellness café opens in Birmingham
Two leading mental health organisations – Living Well Consortium and Birmingham Mind – have partnered to launch the West Midlands’ first wellbeing café, Grounded. The news comes after Nightline, a dedicated helpline that has been supporting students for over five decades, recently reported a 51.4% increase in calls since 2020,…
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23 AugustCatering Companies
Compass Group gifts £500k to fund apprenticeships in West Midlands
Compass Group has gifted £500,000 to West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to boost hospitality and professional services courses in the West Midlands region through the Apprenticeship Transfer Levy Fund. The new funded apprenticeships to WMCA will help budding chefs, restaurant front of house staff or other supporting roles land jobs…
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7 AugustPubs and Bars
West Midlands operator takes on third Star pub lease
West Midlands-based multiple operator, pub@group Ltd., has taken on its third Star Pubs and Bars lease in five years, The Hare and Hounds in Halesowen, with plans to take on a fourth Star pub in the next year. The pub company is undertaking a joint £120,000 revamp of the site…
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Jul- 2023 -26 JulyRestaurants
Italian restaurant Paradiso launches in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter
Paradiso, an Italian Pizzeria and Pasta Trattoria, is opening the doors to its new restaurant in the Jewellery Quarter on 27 July. The new site will be the fourth Paradiso in the West Midlands, with other sites in Oldbury, Bromsgrove, and Hall Green. The Italian dishes on the Amalfi Coast-inspired…
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Apr- 2023 -28 AprilBusiness
Fresh rail strikes to heap ‘further pain’ on hospitality, says UKH
Trade body UK Hospitality has called for all parties involved to “redouble” their efforts to reach a resolution ahead of planned strike action by train drivers. Train drivers from the ASLEF union are set to strike on three dates across May and June dashing hopes of a resolution to the…
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Dec- 2022 -1 DecemberPubs and Bars
Hospitality associations call for ‘urgent resolution’ amid rail strikes
Hospitality bodies have written an open letter to the negotiating parties in the rail dispute stressing the “urgent need for a resolution” ahead of the festive period. The British Beer and Pub Association, British Institute of Innkeeping, Night Time Industries Association, Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street and the…
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Jul- 2022 -14 JulyPeople
Crerar Hotels dishes up four new head chefs
Crerar Hotels Group has welcomed four new senior members to its growing culinary team, with the ambition to “drive the food and beverage offering and ‘field to fork’ positioning within its portfolio of properties”. It has appointed new head chefs to Thainstone House, Balmoral Arms, Isle of Mull Hotel and…
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Dec- 2021 -20 DecemberPubs and Bars
JD Wetherspoon appoints new employee directors
JD Wetherspoon has appointed four employees to the new role of director after it was felt that the company would benefit from having more pub experience at its board level. The appointments are effective from 20 December 2021 and have been made for an initial three-year term. One of the…
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