11/6/2024 8:38:49 AM Autumn 2024 Budget: The THREE main take aways for the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Sectors By Aaliyah Freemantle The 2024 Autumn Budget was intended to bolster the UK economy. We will look at the three main ways in which it will impact the Retail,...
6/14/2024 12:21:57 PM Ping Pong: bouncing back after introduction of "brand fee"? By Lydia Christie In April, the dim sum restaurant chain Ping Pong announced the trial of a new policy: it banned its customers from paying service charges...
12/18/2023 11:36:00 AM Hospitality Insights…Draft Code of Practice published for Tipping Act By Lydia Christie The Government has published the long-awaited draft Code of Practice (the Code) to promote fairness and transparency in the distribution...
5/25/2022 4:54:29 PM Commercially occupied | How does the change in the Use Class Regulations impact your dark kitchen? By Howard Kennedy Planning Permission and Dark Kitchens The Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 (''the regulations'') introduced...
4/25/2022 5:46:21 PM Retail Transformation: causes and effects on business operations By Layla Dribble Howard Kennedy's Retail and Leisure team recently hosted a panel discussion exploring how businesses have been forced to reconsider their...
7/23/2020 10:17:01 AM Food for thought: Things to consider when transitioning your business online By Howard Kennedy As the Covid-19 pandemic has swept across the globe over the past 6 months, many businesses in the retail and leisure sectors have had to...
7/1/2020 8:48:22 AM The Clink Charity By Adam Walford Phenomenal statistics and results about the excellent work The Clink Charity does. Initiatives such as The Clink Charity doing good for...
4/23/2020 12:00:00 AM Call for hospitality businesses to give evidence for UK Pathways to Recovery By Howard Kennedy Inquiry into measures for UK hospitality and tourism business recovery The All Party Parliamentary Group for Hospitality and Tourism has...
3/24/2020 12:00:00 AM Software provider to give away software to set up delivery service for hospitality outlets By Howard Kennedy Boutique Hotelier has announced that EPoS provider Access Hospitality is to provide its software to set up delivery and/or "click and...
3/18/2020 12:00:00 AM Restaurant Dine-Ins to Takeaways By Antonia Frangakis As quickly as one change comes in (suspension of business rates for small businesses), another swiftly follows (blanket suspension on...
3/17/2020 12:00:00 AM UKH hospitality faces "existential risk" as Best Western proposes hotels as isolation hospitals By Howard Kennedy Existential risk UKHospitality , the UK's hotel and catering industry body, has today called on the UK Government and the devolved...
7/4/2019 12:49:11 PM Food Delivered...to your table? By Antonia Frangakis The food delivery market has been growing steadily in recent years, marked by both successes and failures. Amazon closed its food...