27th January 2017 Tesco, the country’s biggest supermarket, has announced a £3.7bn deal to merge with Booker Group, the UK’s biggest food wholesaler. Tesco is to buy the FTSE 250 wholesale, which has more than half a million customers, to “create the UK’s leading food business”. The addition of Booker, which owns the Londis, […]
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23rd January 2017 Cyrus Todiwala’s Assado restaurant at the Hampton by Hilton London Waterloo hotel has closed. The 108-cover Portugese-fusion restaurant which opened in 2014, has been replaced by Greenport, a burger, pizza and roast chicken restaurant. Todiwala blamed for the closure on a lack of demand from the hotel’s US guests who
20th January 2016 The owner of The Purple Olive, Atik Sheik, who has a restaurant in Ellesmere Port and a takeaway in Prescot, has opened a third site on Merseyside, this time in the Hunts Cross suburb of Liverpool The restaurant in Speke Road claims to offer authentic Indian cuisine. “We’ve had the restaurant
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19th January 2017 The Cinnamon Collection, part of by Boparan Restaurants, has announced “Cinnamon Starts”, a chef de partie training programme. Aimed at novice chefs who have completed an NVQ Level 2 or equivalent, the programme will train young chefs for jobs across all four of the group’s London restaurants – The Cinnamon Club,
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18th January 2017 Rickshaw Travel has announced a new three day, two night bite sized trip to Munnar, India, a small town nestled in India’s emerald tea plantations, in the Western Ghats mountain range in India’s Kerala state. Visitors can enjoy the fresh mountain air, a trip to the famous Munnar tea
13th January 2017 The Lalit London, the first overseas property from 11-strong luxury hotel portfolio of Lalit Suri Hospitality Group is opening a £50 million venue in Tooley Street, near Tower Bridge. The Grade II listed property was designed by Edward Mountford (who also designed the Old Bailey) has also housed St Olave’s Grammar School
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12th January 2017 Ten of the most bizarre excuses used by unscrupulous bosses found to have underpaid workers the National Minimum Wage have been revealed. A list of strangest excuses for underpaying National Minimum Wage has been published as part of a government awareness campaign to ensure workers know to how
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11th January 2016 Wholesaler Booker Group has reported non-tobacco like-for-like sales grew 5.1% in the 16 weeks to 30th December 2016. Group non-tobacco sales rose by 4.8% as tobacco sales fell by 1.3% with tobacco like-for-likes down 1.0%. Total sales were up 2.9% and like-for-likes were up 3.2%. The company reported that: “Both the catering
10th January 2017 A legal firm Leigh Day is talking to Deliveroo delivery riders about a “potential legal action” against the food delivery firm, attacking its current business model as “absurd”. Deliveroo deems its delivery staff to be “self-employed”, but solicitors Leigh Day suggests they should be entitled to further rights like a minimum
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9th January 2016 The Whitbread pub and restaurant chain has issued an apology for adding pork to its ‘beef lasagne’ without informing customers. Hundreds of Brewers Fayre, Table Table and Whitbread Inn restaurants have been serving up the altered dish for months. But menus at some outlets had not been changed. The revelation has angered
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