Hospitality

Small Business Saturday UK

Hope springs eternal — and seasonal — for UK retailers

SMALL and independent retailers in the UK have high hopes for the coming year. Confidence in business growth came from 89 percent of those canvassed...
Landfill, bulldozer, waste management

Effective waste-management: a duty, not an option

A WELL-STRUCTURED waste management plan can affect the internal and external perspectives of a company. It can also make a company more desirable to work...
PET plastic waste, plastic pollution

Wrapping up hospitality’s plastic problem

CLIMATE-tech startup (and top five percent B Corp) Skoot is taking an innovative approach to the problem of plastic pollution in the hospitality industry. A...
Bear Robotics Servi

Guess who’s coming to dinner…?

By HAL WILLIAMS FIRST ChatGPT came for your literature, now AI’s coming to dinner — but it promises to behave itself. Bear Robotics is launching Servi,...
Ready Burger - vegan fast food

Plant-based, and growing strong: vegan burger funding hits £2m

ON A MISSION to bring a vegan menu to the high street, plant-based pioneer Ready Burger has closed its first funding round with Crowdcube,...
Sessions Market food selection (Photo: Justin DeSouza)

Sessions Market cooks up an incentive to beat chef shortage

SESSIONS Market has launched a chef incentive and recruitment scheme to boost an industry hard-hit by the Covid pandemic. Founder Dan Warne, previously MD at...
Stella Artois Non-Fungible Token

‘Endless tips’ with your tipple as NFTs move to the boozer

NON-FUNGIBLE Tokens, or NFTs, are taking the art world by storm, powered by the blockchain technology that supports Bitcoin. Stella Artois, part of the Budweiser...
Bar, interior, people drinking

No beer, no problem! Programme that beats poor habits is blooming

A MOVEMENT to change the world’s relationship with alcohol, One Year No Beer, saw its biggest intake last year. Which is odd, because if ever...
Orbital Assembly Corporation - Voyager Class Space Station

Out of this world: Space tourism touchpaper is lit

By HAL WILLIAMS A BV REPORT on space tourism seemed like a glimpse of a more distant future when it was published in Summer, 2018,...
Tyne Bridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Northern England in reverse: ‘14 years of growth may be lost’

REGIONS in the North of England could lose up to 14 years of growth in the wake of the pandemic, a study warns. The North...