Hospitality
The room, the economics and the people who run restaurants for a living.
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UK hospitality closures ran at 20 a day this spring
Britain lost 1,839 licensed sites between March and June. It also gained 1,794. The net figure is almost flat, and that is the part worth arguing about.
Whitbread closes 106 Beefeater restaurants on 10 September
The company says the closures are part of a five-year plan to leave branded restaurants entirely and operate as a hotel business, with 3,800 roles affected.
What a tasting menu actually costs to put on a table
Eight courses, four people in the kitchen, two in the room. We walked one Amsterdam restaurant through its own numbers, line by line.
Dutch wine list awards go short as often as long
Restaurant ML in Haarlem wins the Gold Star for the Netherlands' best short wine list, proof that forty well-chosen bottles can out-argue four hundred.
Hospitality staff shortage: 22,000 vacancies are on the floor
Dutch operators describe a chef shortage. The trade body's own figures say the bigger hole is in the dining room, and it is the room nobody has built a career ladder for.
Dutch restaurants struggle to train front-of-house staff
Kitchens have a recognised career ladder. The dining room mostly does not, and Dutch hospitality is starting to feel the cost in turnover and service.
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