hospitality
Stories tagged “hospitality”
England and Wales allow digital ID for alcohol sales
Certified apps from Yoti, Luciditi and the Post Office can now stand in for a passport at the bar, though pubs are not required to accept them.
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.
BITE 2026 gathers global chefs for a gala in Italy
Two days at Antica Corte Ortalli mixed pizza, pastry and fine dining, ending with a 250-seat dinner built around The Best Chef Awards' international roster.
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.
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.
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.
Hospitality VAT cut: 800 businesses press Burnham on 10%
Chefs from Tom Kerridge to Heston Blumenthal and chains from Wagamama to Wetherspoon want the rate halved to 10%. The Treasury says any cut must be fully funded.
Whitbread shuts all Beefeater and Brewers Fayre sites
Premier Inn's owner has closed its last standalone restaurants, ending six brands and around 3,800 jobs as it bets everything on hotel rooms.
Mental health in hospitality: 65% of managers cite work
Hospitality Action's annual survey, run this summer with Agilysys, also reports that 61% of managers were asked to support a colleague in the past year.
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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