All Weekend Press articles
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Weekend PressSupermarket giant Tesco weighs shock takeover bid for Majestic Wine
Sky News reports that Britain’s biggest grocery retailer is among the suitors circling Majestic Wine, whose portfolio includes the Vagabond bars brand
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Weekend PressTravelodge victim calls for hotel security guidelines
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has called for government involvment in setting up and regulating mandatory guidelines that all hotels have to follow, reports the BBC
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Weekend PressCasino owner warns it will shut more than one in three sites over Labour tax raid
Paul Willcock, chief executive of Genting UK, told The Telegraph 13 of the group’s 32 venues would be ’unprofitable or unsustainable’ if the tax raid goes ahead
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Weekend PressProfessor Green swaps charts for chicken as rapper expands fast-food venture
The rapper says lessons learned from the music industry are helping him build a fast-food business, as he opens the first dine-in site for restaurant brand Proper Good
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Weekend PressOdeon writes down cinema estate by £233m as audience recovery stalls
Accounts for Odeon Cinemas Group show the company recorded a £232.7m impairment charge in the year to December 2025, reflecting concerns that audiences may never fully return to the cinema habits they had before Covid-19
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Weekend PressFrom ice cream van to £27m café business: Daisy Green founder shares growth story
Prue Freeman explains how a £3,000 second-hand ice cream van and a disastrous music festival launch helped lay the foundations for what has become one of London’s best-known brunch chains
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Weekend PressResidents campaign to break grip of bookies and chicken shops on west London high street
Uxbridge Road residents are campaigning for a more diverse mix of businesses, arguing the area has become dominated by bookmakers, fried chicken outlets, vape shops and mobile phone stores, the Financial Times reports
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Weekend PressTourist taxes spread worldwide as governments cash in on travel boom
Cities and countries including Barcelona, Venice, Kyoto, Amsterdam and the Maldives have either introduced or raised visitor levies in recent years, the Financial Times; reports
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Weekend PressWhisky strikes are a distraction that Diageo cannot afford
Trade unions should work with drinks company’s management to turn the business around, The Telegraph writes
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Weekend PressOne in three pubs pressuring drinkers to tip at the bar
British establishments turn to American-style gratuity prompts as higher costs squeeze margins, The Telegraph reports
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Weekend PressCinema revival takes the big screen and makes it enormous
Film-goers are attending less often but spending more, splashing out on plush seats, elaborate cocktails and premium screens, the FT reports
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Weekend PressHeineken in talks to buy 300 pubs from Stonegate in £300m deal
Dutch brewing giant close to deal as Britain’s biggest pub company seeks to offload 1,000 of its best pubs to ease burden of more than £3bn of debt, The Sunday Times reports
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Weekend PressPizzaExpress cooks up sale at up to £500m valuation
Company owners, including Bain Capital’s special situations unit and Cyrus Capital Partners, are working with bankers at Rothschild, the FT reports
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Weekend Press‘People are eating less — restaurants must adapt’
Restaurant designer Afroditi Krassa tells The Times how a cultural shift is pushing places like Dishoom, Itsu and the Savoy to roll the dice
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Weekend Press‘Hotel police’ to enforce Burnham’s tourist tax
Tax officers will be able to demand access to hotels, force hospitality bosses to hand over documents and issue financial penalties under government proposals to impose the new overnight visitor levy, reports The Telegraph
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Weekend PressFlorian de Chezelles: ‘We’re only as good as the last salad we’ve made’
The co-founder of The Salad Project speaks to the FT about spotting a gap in the market to serve healthy lunchtime meals to London’s workers, and why he’s taking the brand to Paris
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Weekend PressPremier Inn owner: ‘Tourist tax’ could stop us opening new hotels
Whitbread boss Dominic Paul tells The Times Andy Burnham’s planned levy on overnight visitors would hit an industry already struggling with higher business rates
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Weekend PressThe hotels hiring robots to cut their wage bills
Hospitality bosses are reconsidering automation as labour costs surge, The Telegraph reports
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Weekend PressGail’s reveals menopause plan ahead of new laws
The bakery has become one of the first big consumer brands to reveal a “menopause action plan” ahead of new laws coming in next year, The Sunday Times reports
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NewsVAT is a problem and Britain’s hospitality businesses are paying the price, warns top chef Tom Kerridge
Writing for The Mail, Kerridge said Labour ‘has now recognised that VAT is the lever to pull to drive footfall, support families and back hospitality businesses through its summer VAT scheme’