Business
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Santerra closure: Madrid loses a Michelin-starred game restaurant
The Madrid restaurant, known for its game cooking and a twice-awarded croqueta, has closed after its operating company entered pre-insolvency proceedings in May, according to Spanish media.
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Osaka restaurant bankruptcy: LIAISON operator owes ¥1.2bn
The DINING, which opened the Michelin-starred French restaurant LIAISON in 2017 and grew to about 30 outlets, has stopped trading with some 300 creditors.
Card payment mandate: Germany targets cash-only restaurants
Finance minister Lars Klingbeil wants every shop, café and restaurant to offer at least one digital way to pay from 2027. Dehoga says the fees are the real question.
Beefeater closure: Whitbread shuts its last 106 restaurants
The carvery chain's final site traded on September 10, the last of three closure dates that also emptied Table Table, Cookhouse + Pub and Brewers Fayre this month.
Spain restaurant prices rise 4.4% as inflation catches up
Fuel pushed Spain's headline inflation to 4.3%, almost level with menus. Eating out still rises twice as fast as food shopping, and operators say margins are shrinking.
DoorDash Wonder deal invests $425m in robot kitchens
The delivery platform buys Wonder's campus-dining arm for $300 million and adds $125 million to its funding round, valuing the ghost-kitchen chain above $9 billion.
Nova Scotia tables a law to protect workers' tips
Bill 256 guarantees that tips go to the staff who earn them, closing a gap in the province's Labour Standards Code from April 2027.
Rotana hotel jobs to grow by 5,000 across 40 sites
The Abu Dhabi hotel group plans 5,000 new jobs alongside 40 properties in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Somalia and Georgia, while its CEO points to zero layoffs during the downturn.
Wales business rates to fall 30% for pubs and cafés
The Welsh government will replace a temporary hospitality discount with a permanent, deeper one from April 2027, funded by higher rates on the most valuable properties.
US restaurant menu prices outpace grocery inflation
Full-service meals rose 3.5 percent over the year to August, a point ahead of supermarket food, as BLS data shows the dining-out gap holding firm.
Southern Glazer's settles bribery probe for $12.5m
The US Department of Justice says employees funnelled cash, gift cards and luxury trips to California retailers for eight years before Southern Glazer's agreed to a two-year compliance overhaul.
Australia's food delivery minimum wage turns four weeks old
Uber Eats and DoorDash predicted price shocks of up to 300 percent. A month into Australia's new pay floor for 250,000 riders, neither has happened yet.
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