Legislation

Listing calories on menus will be mandatory for restaurant, café and takeaway businesses with more than 250 employees under new laws being drawn up by government, in a move that UKHospitality has said “could not come at a worse time”.

Jonathan Downey has today sent chancellor Rishi Sunak a revised proposal for a National Time Out (NTO) rent deal for commercial landlords and tenants as he warns time is running out for the government to act.

As the coronavirus crisis continues, swathes of tenants are engaged in fierce negotiations with landlords over rent payments despite the recent forfeiture moratorium designed to protect them from eviction.

Oklava restaurant founders Selin Kiazim and Laura Christie have set up a petition in response to the UK government’s new immigration policy, which under the points system would class restaurant and bar staff as ‘unskilled’.