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  • 10 October 10am - 5pm
  • 11 October 10am - 7pm
  • 12 October 10am - 5pm
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Hotel Chocolat: Café concept launches, fine dining restaurant next

Cocoa grower and chocolatier Hotel Chocolat has opened Roast + Conch, a casual café concept serving cocoa-based food and drink, in London's Seven Dials district of Covent Garden with plans for a fine dining restaurant in the UK to follow.
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World Travel Awards open for nominations

UK hotels are being encouraged to enter the World Travel Awards (WTA) as nominations open for the 2012 programme of travel industry awards.
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Premier Inn expansion continues with new hotels in Bristol & High Wycombe

Premier Inn, the UK’s largest hotel chain owned by Whitbread, has secured planning permission for a new £10 million, 175-bedroom property in Bristol’s city centre.
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'No room for complacency' as hospitality administrations soar

The number of hospitality businesses falling into administration increased by 19.3 per cent in 2011, indicating that the sector was one of the worst hit by the economic crisis.
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SRA launches new website for diners

The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has launched a new website to provide diners with a easy-to-use means of finding places to eat out that match their values.
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Jamie Oliver to open first Union Jacks site outside London

Jamie Oliver has acquired a site in Winchester for the first Union Jacks restaurant outside London it has been confirmed, while the successful Italian casual dining concept Jamie’s Italian will see five more openings before Autumn amid plans for a further venture at Gatwick Airport.
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Scottish Steak Club at Macdonald Burlington and Singaporean Dinner at Pollen Street Social

Restaurants, pubs and hotels, including Macdonald Burlington, Pollen Street Social, Barracuda and Best Western tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they're running to attract more customers.
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Fuller’s acquires 15 pubs from Enterprise Inns in £23m deal

Fuller’s, the brewer and pub operator, has announced they are to acquire 15 freehold, tied and tenanted pubs from the pubco Enterprise Inns in a deal costing the London-based company £22.9m.
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Locatel launches in-room entertainment solution for hoteliers

Locatel has launched a new multimedia ‘infotainment’ system that hoteliers can connect to in-room TVs to provide guests with news feeds, TV, radio and on-demand films.
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Pearls of Wisdom: Richard Muir

Richard Muir has worked in the industry for the past 30 years, starting out as a chef before moving into corporate catering. He was managing director of Sodexo’s UK corporate business and opened restaurants for Gary Rhodes before buying and redeveloping the Carmelite Hotel in Aberdeen. He currently owns Cafe Fish in Edinburgh and has just formed the company SBG Restaurants with former Paramount chairman William Rollason.
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IHG reveals meetings sector ambitions for Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza

Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) has revealed ambitions to establish it's managed estate Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza brands as market leaders in the meetings industry after 14 sites secured accreditation from the Meetings Industry Association (MIA).
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Jason Atherton to open restaurant in Singapore

Jason Atherton is to open a restaurant in Singapore in June called Pollen.
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Queen's Jubilee and Olympics to put focus on 'Great British' cooking in 2012

With two major events happening in Britain this year - the Olympics and the Queen's Jubilee, food trends agency The foodpeople is predicting a rise in demand for classic British dishes on menus in 2012.
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Secret survey reveals ‘shockingly poor’ deaf awareness of hotels in London

Hotels in London are being warned that they could be putting the lives of guests with hearing loss at risk by not having appropriate procedures in place for emergency situations.
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Von Essen's Cliveden House hotel sold to Livingston brothers

Cliveden House Hotel, the former Von Essen property in Buckinghamshire, has been sold to the billionaire property developer brothers Ian and Richard Livingston.
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Arena to hold London 2012 Olympics lecture

Jan Matthews, head of catering, cleaning and waste services for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), is set to present the Arena Savoy Lecture on 20 March.
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McCain gives restaurants and pubs opportunity to serve chip shop style chips

McCain Foods has added a new ‘chip shop’ type chip to its Classics potato products range which is says could enable restaurants and pubs to drive sales of traditional fish and chip-style dishes, save time in the kitchen and even introduce a fish and chip takeaway service.
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