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UK pastry chain has plans for two new factories and 800 more branches, despite sales falling in 2025 and analysts questioning brand’s direction An enormous carpet of pastry snakes its way around the factory. Four huge metal urns of meat filling are wai…
Data shows 366 were demolished or converted for other uses as cost pressures took toll on sectorOne pub a day disappeared for good in England and Wales during 2025 as sustained cost pressures continued to weigh heavily on the sector.Analysis of governm…
Celebrity chef will start with branch in London’s Leicester Square, backed by Prezzo owner Brava Hospitality GroupBusiness live – latest updatesJamie Oliver is to revive his Jamie’s Italian restaurant chain in the UK, more than six years after the cele…
Group, which also owns restaurant brands including Toby Carvery, feels impact of increase in employer NICs The All Bar One owner, Mitchells & Butlers, has warned that it is facing about £130m in extra costs over the next year because of a soaring w…
Opening in Alicante airport is the chain’s first move into mainland Europe, and will offer outdoor drinkingBusiness live – latest updatesWetherspoon’s is to open its first pub outside the UK and Ireland, serving alcohol from 6am every day to sun-seekin…
Move to give mayors powers to raise funds through levies, but industry says it will ramp up prices and inflationBusiness live – latest updatesBritish holidaymakers could have to pay a nightly tax on hotel stays and Airbnb-style visits in plans expected…
Sprinklers could save 500-year-old tree that had branches cut off without authorisation in April, says expertThe restaurant chain Toby Carvery is being urged to pay for life support for an ancient oak tree that its owner had chainsawed last spring to w…
Sector is sceptical over government licensing proposals given ‘ever-rising costs’ and ‘reduced consumer spend’Plans to make it easier for pubs to open until the small hours will not offset the “toxic” combination of high costs and hard-up drinkers stay…
Ministers push ahead with plans as part of drive for economic growthPubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of the government’s drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder…
Concern for ‘anchor tenants’ as trade body warns that stores could put up prices or cut jobs to protect profitsUp to 400 large shops are at risk of closure with as many as 100,000 jobs at risk if the government goes ahead with plans to hit stores with …