9th June 2024 Netherlands-based Korean fried chicken concept Sojubar is looking to expand in the UK using a franchise model. Sojubar launched in Rotterdam in 2021, with a beer and soju (a Korean distilled alcoholic drink traditionally made from rice) offering with fried chicken and other Korean dishes. It has four sites in the Netherlands and […]
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10th June 2024 Street food cafe franchise Chaiiwala has secured a site for its second drive-thru location. The brand launched the UK’s first Indian drive-thru, on Manchester Road in Bolton. The petrol station forecourt site was launched in partnership with EG Group, which has more than 1,000 sites in the UK and Ireland. “Following the
8th June 2024 Indian restaurant brand Delhi House Café is to open its second UK site later this year, with an opening in Liverpool. The café-restaurant concept, which debuted in Manchester in 2020, will occupy a 3,00 square-foot site in Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock. Delhi House Café, which is led by the Lamba family, made
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6th June 2024 Sacha Lord, the Night Time Economy Adviser for Greater Manchester, has called on an incoming government to appoint a minister for hospitality. Speaking ahead of the publication of party manifestos this week, Lord believes that many of the issues the sector has faced in recent years would have been prevented had a
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4th June 2024 The Asian Catering Federation [ACF] has criticised restaurant takeaway delivery platforms for undermining the hospitality sector, and in turn High Street trade in general, ahead of a presentation to leading chefs and restaurants at the House of Lords. ACF committee member, Binod Baral, a Goodwill Ambassador for the Ghurka Centre in London,
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28th May 2024 Many of the country’s leading chefs have competed in a live cook for one of the hospitality industry’s most prestigious accolades, the Asian Oriental & Chef Awards. The contest was held in the Pillars Restaurant at the University of West London on 19th May – the former alma mater of Home Secretary James Cleverly.
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23rd May 2024 Chefs have overtaken computer programmer as the most common occupation of migrants arriving in Britain on a skilled worker visa, according to Home Office official data. Some 6,203 chefs were granted skilled worker visas in the year to March 2024, a rise of 54% on the previous year In the same period,
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22nd May 2024 The Dishoom restaurant group is battling to end the trademarked phrase ‘Ruby Murray’, to be freed for anyone to use. The term was registered under the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) as a food and drink trademark by London businessman Tariq Aziz in 2019. However, Dishoom’s lawyers have applied to the IPO to
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21st May 2024 Dev Biswal, owner of The Cook’s Tale restaurant in Canterbury, will receive one of the hospitality industry’s most prestigious accolades, following a national cook off competition in London. Competing in the Asian Oriental & Chef Awards at the University of West London on 20th May, Chef Biswal was named ‘Best Asian Chef – Outside London’,
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20th May 2024 Leicester based Indian takeaway Bombay Bites has opened a fourth site, its first site outside of the city, as it seeks to expand through franchising. Bombay Bites was founded in 2007 by the Wahid family and has since opened three sites in Leicester – at Braunstone Gate, Evington Road and Granby Street.
