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Gordon Ramsay Restaurants passes £100m as Bishopsgate leads
The chef's 34 UK restaurants took £100.7m in 2025 and posted record earnings, but the British business still made an operating loss of £5.8m.
Nobu San Juan: Nobu plans a 50-room hotel in Puerto Rico
The hotel, developed with the investor KTT, will have a Nobu restaurant at street level and a rooftop bar. The release gives a year, 2028, but no address, chef or menu.
Potsdam packaging tax puts 50 cents on every takeaway cup
From 1 October, cafés, bakeries, fast-food outlets and petrol stations in Brandenburg's capital pay a levy on single-use containers and cutlery, with reusables exempt.
Swiss hospitality minimum wages rise 0.6% in 2027
Cooks, waiters and hotel staff covered by Switzerland's national collective agreement get a raise that tracks the official inflation forecast to the decimal, while a new agreement is still being negotiated.
Diageo cuts nearly 2,000 jobs to hit its $1bn target
The Guinness and Johnnie Walker owner shed more than 6% of its workforce in the year to June as chief executive Dave Lewis pushes through a three-year cost overhaul.
Australia bans card surcharges on restaurant menus
From 1 October, cafes, pubs and restaurants can no longer add a card surcharge, and owners are recalculating what a coffee or a steak should cost.
Restaurant delivery sales lift UK at-home trade 9.6% in August
New sites and first-time delivery listings drove the headline figure; on a like-for-like basis the at-home business of Britain's restaurant groups grew just 0.2%.
Dutch hospitality bankruptcies ease from last year's peak
CBS data show hospitality bankruptcies fell fastest of any sector in the Netherlands this summer, even as restaurant sales outrun hotels hit by a new VAT rate.
UK hospitality insolvencies fall 24% in August
The monthly count is the lowest of the year, but the 12-month total still stands at 3,201 and the business rates revaluation arrives before operators can bank the relief.
Yardbird bankruptcy filing opens court sale process
Yardbird Group LLC and ten affiliated entities filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware on September 21, listing $25 million in secured debt as the chain pursues a court-supervised sale.
Stonegate pubs: Heineken in talks over a £300m deal
Star Pubs and Bars is reported to be negotiating for about 300 sites. Neither company will confirm it, and Stonegate says no decisions have been made.
Wendy's biggest US franchisee files for Chapter 11
Meritage Hospitality, which runs 314 Wendy's restaurants, filed for bankruptcy protection after store-level earnings fell 48% in a year.
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