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News
Hospitality welcomes proposals to cut red tape
UKHospitality chair Kate Nicholls called for long-term plan to boost high streets and hospitality that sees both a reduction in red tape and business rates, expected in the upcoming Budget
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Tax rises killing off pub summer holiday jobs, warn bosses
Rising taxation risks killing off the traditional pub summer holiday jobs amid a sharp slump in hospitality vacancies
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Interviews
Wasabi CEO: Growing taxation and regulation risk ‘killing the industry’
Henry Birts has said the growing burden of red tape is stifling the hospitality sector, with recent rises in costs leading to higher prices and inflation
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News
Greene King sets out proposals for business rates relief
The pubco recommends the business rates multiplier for pubs should be reduced by 20p, and that rates should be calculated based on profit rather than turnover
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Interviews
Brewhouse & Kitchen: ‘We have less people doing more and more hours’
The pub operator may have reduced its workforce through natural attrition, but the impact of April’s extra labour costs is inhibiting growth and new job creation, CEO Kris Gumbrell tells MCA
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Pub bosses warn government over £1.7bn tax on business
The leaders of JW Wetherspoon, Fuller’s and Greene King have called for the “unfairness” in the business rates system to be rectified if further pub closures are to be avoided
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Weekend Press
Struggling pubs and cafes to get lifeline under new rules
Struggling pubs, cafes and clubs around the country could be rescued under new a new law to let locals take them over, The Mirror reports
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News
Chefs ‘no longer granted access to the immigrations system’
Chefs are to be stripped of their ability to recruit from abroad, alongside 111 ocupations no longer deeemd to have a shortage of workers, under government immigration plans
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Restaurants to be required to report diners’ calorie consumption
The Telegraph reports the industry has been “totally blindsided” by plans to reduce obesity and ease pressure on the NHS
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NIC increases hurts jobs market ‘more than expected’
The governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey said he was seeing a “bit more evidence” that companies were reacting to higher payroll taxes by cutting headcount or vacancies
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News
Mayor of London announces four new al fresco hotspots
Parts of the West End, Shoreditch, Brixton, and Leyton will go car-free at select hours in a bid to support the capital’s hospitality scene
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NIC changes contribute to more than 100,000 job losses
The damaging impact necessitates an urgent review and reversal of the increases, UKHospitality has said
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PizzaExpress among companies named by Government for minimum wage failures
The Department for Business and Trade released a list of 518 employers and businesses that underpaid workers over several years
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Kate Nicholls: Immigration rules risk curbing pub and bar trading hours
The UKHospitality CEO warns that tighter immigration controls could force pubs and bars to reduce trading hours and restrict capacity unless matched with urgent domestic workforce reform
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News
Summer Streets Fund aims to boost London’s hospitality scene
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a new £300,000 fund to support hospitality venues extend al fresco trading and opening hours.
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Weekend Press
Kate Nicholls: ‘Hospitality just can’t absorb these cost increases’
The chief executive of the UKHospitality trade body once helped to save prawn cocktail crisps but she fears what higher employment taxes could do to her sector, she tells The Times
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Analysis & Insight
‘We will be a much smaller employer in the future’: The fallout from the Budget
Reduced hours and reined in expansion plans are just some of the ways operators are tackling the significant uplift in labour costs hitting their bottom line from this month. Featuring comments from Giggling Squid, JW Lees, Butcombe Group, and Wells & Co.
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News
Business rates reform act receives Royal Assent
The potential for long-term business rates reform has edged one step closer after the Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Act was passed into law in “landmark moment”.
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Deliveroo: London restaurants can’t take more tax hikes
Chief business officer Carlo Mocci said the hospitality sector is being “taken for granted” by policymakers
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Simon Emeny: NICs rise a ‘hammer blow’ to sector
The Fuller’s chief executive said he is frustrated by the “lack of joined-up thinking” by the government, and had been forced to review prices in the past week in response to rising business costs