All Weekend Press articles – Page 3
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Weekend Press‘Overheads have gone up’: Britain’s hospitality sector faces tough time this summer
Pubs and restaurants report rising costs including food price inflation, labour and NICs while employing fewer seasonal staff, The Guardian reports
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Weekend PressBank of England forecast to cut interest rates amid rising unemployment and Trump tariffs
City predicts quarter-point drop to 4% when MPC meets on Thursday, The Guardian reports
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Weekend PressStarbucks takes aim at Chinese rival Luckin in Manhattan coffee showdown
US chain upgrades stores and offers customers a different approach to revive sales, the FT reports
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Weekend PressDiageo makes a £50,000 whisky while investors drown their sorrows
Shares in the drinks giant have plunged, sales are down and the chief executive has gone as people turn away from alcohol. But it sees hope in luxury Scotch, The Sunday Times reports
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Weekend PressThe rise of early eating: restaurants adapt as diners shun late nights
A change in habits has led to a battle of the discounts and a move towards surge pricing, the Financial Times reports
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Weekend PressDown in one: how private equity swallowed the BrewDog Unicorn
All the shares sold to retail investors, the 130,000 so-called “Equity Punks”, will probably be worthless unless a generous buyer suddenly appears for the lossmaking BrewDog, the Financial Times reports
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Weekend PressBusiness rates hike would drive up food prices, chancellor told
Rachel Reeves has been warned that plans to increase charges on larger retail properties will result in costs being passed onto consumers and add to inflation, The Sunday Times reports
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Weekend PressChancellor’s tax raid spells last orders for rural pubs
Thousands of struggling village pubs could be forced to close next year because of a punishing tax raid by Labour, The Mail on Sunday reports
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Weekend Press‘Too hot to shop’: Misery for High Street retailers as UK heatwave sees shopping trips melt away
June’s heat caused a meltdown on Britain’s high streets. Shopper numbers fell 1.8 per cent year-on-year as it was ‘too hot to shop’, said the British Retail Consortium
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Weekend PressRevealed: The war over Britain’s fried chicken future
A fried chicken war has broken out in the UK after two American restaurant chains hired private detectives and lawyers to fight over Britain’s fast food future
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Weekend PressLabour’s ‘ludicrous’ state-funded restaurants plan sparks backlash
Restaurateurs grappling with tax rises deride the idea of Second World War-style diners, The Telegraph’s Hannah Boland writes
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Weekend PressHow Labour gave British pubs an almighty hangover
As tax bills go through the roof, the pint glass looks decidedly half-empty for publicans, The Telegraph reports
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Weekend PressOwner of Cote restaurant chain cooks up sale plan
Partners Group, which bought the French-themed hospitality business five years ago, is working with Interpath on a process which could trigger further closures, Sky News learns
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Weekend PressThe female chef exposing restaurants’ sex and drug culture
She’s the anonymous figure whose Slutty Cheff Instagram account lifts the lid on the darker side of the restaurant world, from drug binges to the harassment of female staff, The Times reports
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Weekend PressCould M&S’ strawberries and cream sandwich be taxed?
Experts say M&S’s viral summer sando could be hit with 20% VAT for looking a bit too much like dessert. The Independent’s Hannah Twiggs explores the issue
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Weekend PressStruggling 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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Weekend PressGeneral Atlantic is exploring US IPO of Joe & The Juice
Private equity firm General Atlantic is exploring a potential US initial public offering of Joe & the Juice as soon as next year, Bloomberg reports
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Weekend PressHow I learnt to stop worrying and love uncool restaurants
You say small plates, I say pornstar martini, writes Marina O’Loughlin in the FT
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Weekend PressNational insurance hike hits hospitality as 69,000 jobs go
Chancellor’s increases in national insurance blamed for cuts by pubs, restaurants and hotels, amid industry fears that 200,000 people could lose their roles, The Sunday Times reports
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Weekend PressSelfridges to open private members’ club in battle to revive fortunes
The luxury retailer is transforming the fourth floor of its Oxford Street store into bar, dining room and terrace