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16th March 2017   Michelin-starred Indian restaurant Gymkhana has reported a boost in turnover and pre-tax profit. The Mayfair restaurant, which is owned by the Sethi family, saw turnover increase to £4,090,00o December 2015, compared with £3,300,000 the previous year. Pre-tax profit was up to £726,000 from £534,000 in 2014.   The Sethi family also operates Michelin-starred […]

15th March 2017     Bradford-based restaurant Mughals has opened a second site in the city. Mughals opened its 150-cover restaurant and sweets centre in Leeds Road in 1988, which now employs 25 people.  The new 40-cover venue opens Horton Road at lunchtime on Friday 17th March.   Owner Mohammad Bilal said: “We have had a lot

14th  March 2017   Wagamama is partnering  has with Meantime Brewing  to launch two Asian-inspired craft pale ales.   The beers – Kikku and Kansho – are exclusive to Wagamama and have been brewed with Asian-inspired flavours to enhance and complement key ingredients used in the restaurant chain’s dishes.   The pale ales have been

13th March 2017   Oddbox has launched London’s first wonky veg box scheme, in order to fight food waste.   The social enterprise scheme  delivers a weekly box directly to South London’s homes and Central London’s businesses. Oddbox are able to buy the produce at a fair discounted price and pass on the discount to their

9th March 2017     The 73-bedroom Clumber Park Hotel & Spa in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, has been acquired by Indian-based MGM Muthu Hotels, for c£7m.   Adjoining the National Trust’s 3,800-acre Clumber Park and near to Sherwood Forest, the hotel  becomes the third UK hotel for MGM Muthu, joining the 88-bedroom Belstead Brook hotel in Ipswich,

7th March 2017   Scientists from the University of Birmingham are calling on innovative British cooling businesses to join them in India as part of a research initiative to help double farmers’ incomes, whilst reducing their impact on the environment.   The Birmingham Energy Institute, supported by the UK’s Science and Innovation team, Department for

5th February 2017   Just Eat, the global marketplace for online food delivery, has increased revenues by 52% to £375.7m to 31 December 2016. Orders rose 42% to 136.4mllion), up 36% on a like-for like basis. Lik-for-like revenues increased 46%.  Pre  tax rose 164% to £91.3 million (2015: £34.6 million). The compnay processed restaurant orders

2nd March 2017   Research company NPD Group says thefood delivery channel has grown by 50% since 2008,  as even pubs begin delivery.    The delivery channel in Britain’s eating-out foodservice market (known as out-of-home or OOH) was worth £3.6 billion in 2016, up 6% on the previous year.   Last year delivery grew 10

2nd March 2017   Nando’s has launched its hottest sauce yet – the Peri-Peri Vusa – containing more chillies than any of its other dressings.     Translated the Zulu for “excitement and fire” in Zulu, the sauce  also contains citrus, garlic and onion to give an “intense, full-bodied taste”.   Nando’s claims Peri-Peri Vusa

1st March 2017   Chinese has been named the UK’s favourite takeaway food in a poll of 2,000 consumers, with 35% of the vote. Indian food came second (24%), with pizza in third place (13%).   The survey by Paymentsense, a low-cost card payment service, also found most people still call a takeaway to place