Travelodge, the capitals largest hotelier with 59 hotels and circa 7000 rooms, are looking to re affirm their dominance in London by opening a further 145 hotels in the next 15 years. The hotels will be strategically placed across London, for example they plan to open 6 hotels in Fulham and Hammersmith area due to a shortage of rooms, which will also be significant to the local economy creating 120 jobs and £12million in to the local economy. The 145 hotels will create around 4000 jobs and according to hospitalitynet.org could be worth £290 million to the local economy. Travelodge were the UK’s ... (Read more)

Legendary Football player and fashion icon David Beckham looks to be the latest high profile sportsperson to open a restaurant.   Following on from footballer Rio Ferdinand's Rosso restaurant in Manchester, Jamie Carraghers Cafe Sports in Liverpool and Frankie Dettori's join venture with Marco Pierre White, Beckham is looking to use his brand to ensure his new venture is as successful as his fellow sportsmen.   For the past 2 years there have been rumours that David Beckham has been looking in to owning his own restaurant in the London area. It was revealed on Tuesday (05.02.2013) that the eatery, called Union ... (Read more)

JD Wetherspoon has announced on the back of a successful 2012 that they are going to expand their estate.  There have been question marks around which way hospitality operators will react to the quieter year on the back of an event filled 2012 calendar, but JD Wetherspoon seem to be ready to maintain the growth of their hugely successful concept with 30 venues planned in 2013. Currently JD Wetherspoon operates 860 pub restaurants, including their late night music venues Lloyds No1 and 25 hotels.   With the expansion it would take the company who hit the 800 venue mark in 2011, to ... (Read more)

Whitbread have announced that like for like sales over the 13 weeks to November 2012 have increased 3.3%, in no little part down to a 7% increase in like for like sales at Costa Coffee.  Costa as a business has been going from strength to strength and total sales have increased in the past 3 months by 25.5%. With over 1400 outlets, Costa is continuing to expand and take market share as the UK’s largest coffee chain.  They also plan to open an additional 300+ outlets with the plan to hit the 2000 mark. Whitbread have also announced sales across its entire ... (Read more)

The hospitality sector is renowned for providing top quality apprenticeship schemes and is always looking for ways of training and developing people. With the current focus on apprenticeships by the government and the 11-month review of general apprenticeships, it has been suggested that schemes in some industries need “urgent reform” and that others were in need of improved monitoring. The report also claimed that some schemes are costing too much government money, and that apprenticeships need to be more clearly defined. Hospitality apprenticeships do not stop at entry level, and recently the Institute of Hospitality has introduced a new higher apprenticeship in ... (Read more)

Nando’s had cause for double celebration after being announced as the Best Overall Restaurant Chain and releasing pre tax profit figures for the year to February 2012 of £14.7m. The casual counter service restaurant who operate sites across the UK are showing no signs of staleness as the following for the brand grows.  Nando’s, voted number one in the Sunday Times “Top 25 Best Companies to work for” back in 2010, were voted the best restaurant in a poll by R200 magazine beating off competition from The Restaurant Group, Mitchells & Butlers and Tragus. The chain opened its first UK restaurant in ... (Read more)

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JD Wetherspoon who operates around 860 pubs around the UK has announced that they have enjoyed a summer of success. The group has reported like for like sales for September had increased by 8.4% with sales up 12.8% in total.  The increase has been put partly down to the summer of celebration in the UK with the Queens Diamond Jubilee, Footballs Euro 2012 Championship and the Olympic and Paralympic games.  Wetherspoon took the unusual step of showing the games in their pubs which usually do not show sporting events. Year to date the business has opened 40 new pubs which brings their ... (Read more)

There has been strong figures released again on like for like sales for the top branded restaurants in the UK according to Big Hospitality.  The largest restaurant chains are thriving in difficult conditions and again are outperforming the previous year. The top 10 restaurant groups which include the likes of Nando’s, Pizza Hut, JD Wetherspoon account for a reported £7.3bn. Although the concepts which make up the top 10 are more casual, quick service restaurants there has also been an increase in the turnover of full service restaurants on previous year with the likes of Pizza Express, Jamie’s Italian and Cote ... (Read more)

Contract catering giant Compass have again shown their strength and business stability despite the economic climate.  Compass announced it was in a period of accelerated growth with like for like sales rising 5.7% for the last quarter. With contracts ranging from catering at offshore locations, universities, healthcare sites, sports venues all the way up to their fine dining venture with the world famous chefs Albert and Michel Roux Jr, Compass is a company that provides quality catering services to over 7,000 client sites.  Employing circa 52,000 employees, they also provide a comprehensive range of support services which include reception, cleaning, building ... (Read more)