Hospitality
The room, the economics and the people who run restaurants for a living.
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Double Zero closes after 12 years in the East Village
The plant-based pizza and wine bar on Second Avenue shut this month, four months after reopening next door under its original name and its original chef.
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 lists are not getting shorter, just sharper
Rotterdam sommelier Taco de Vos just won Gold for the country's best short list. His own restaurant won the prize for the best long one a year earlier.
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.
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