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Tim Hortons UK&I returns to profit on 5% sales growth
Like-for-like sales rose 5% over 39 weeks at the coffee and bakery chain's UK and Ireland business, its eighth straight quarter of growth, as delivery and new drinks lifted trade.
OpenTable: Brits plan more 'micro occasions' in 2027
The reservation platform's 2027 Dining Trends Report finds Brits eating out more often, waiting less for tables, and marking small wins with a meal.
Vagabond wine bar opens third UK site in Brighton
The tap-and-pour wine group has taken a former Browns Brasserie on Duke Street, its first move outside London and Birmingham.
Britain loses 19 hospitality venues a week
Net closures ran at nearly 19 licensed venues a week over the past year, NIQ data shows, leaving the sector a quarter smaller than before the pandemic.
Shetland shellfish fishery wins MSC ocean award
A Shetland shellfish fishery that closed its own nursery grounds in 2004 has won the Marine Stewardship Council's top ocean prize, two decades before supermarkets began chasing the same label.
Crazy Bear hotels close for good as Brakspear buys freeholds
BDO sold the freeholds of Stadhampton and Beaconsfield to pub group Brakspear three days after Crazy Bear's second administration in under two years, ending about 130 jobs.
Cafe Spice Namaste closes after three decades in London
Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala have shut their pioneering Parsi-Indian restaurant, now at the Royal Docks, describing it as the start of a "new venture" rather than a goodbye.
Liam Nichols opens The Northwic, his first solo restaurant
The Michelin-starred chef behind Store swaps a Georgian townhouse in Lower Goat Lane for an 18-seat counter, two tasting menus and a kitchen he finally controls alone.
The Beaumont opens Pearl above Mayfair's public garden
Chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen brings an all-day Mediterranean menu to a circular pavilion built over a Grade II-listed electricity substation in Brown Hart Gardens.
James Martin's Manchester restaurant closes after 14 years
The chef's namesake dining room inside the Manchester235 casino has shut as his partnership with operator Metropolitan Gaming ends, with no replacement concept named yet.
Common Table Group buys 57 former Whitbread restaurants
Thomas Anderson's new venture is taking over 57 Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Cookhouse sites plus a Premier Inn hotel, promising 700 new jobs and a mid-November reopening.
Wolseley Hospitality Group reshuffles three head chefs
Frank Fletcher, Jenson Santos and Jai Shaikh all move kitchens this month, the latest sign that the Wolseley group prefers promoting its own cooks from within.
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