Hospitality News Briefing

About Hospitality News Briefing

UK hospitality news, collated every weekday morning in about five minutes. We summarise the trade press first thing so you don't have to. Each briefing covers the results, the deals, the openings and the people moves that matter to operators, with every story credited out loud to the publication that reported it. We collate, we don't report. The full rundown, with links back to the original journalism, is at ops-club.com/news. Scripted and read by AI from the Ops Club written edition. The stories are the trade press's, the selection is ours. Three things to think about before you get on with your day, then you're done. From Ops Club, the community for hospitality operators. For longer conversations with the people running the sector, find the Hospitality Ops Club podcast (https://ops-club.com/podcast) Find us at ops-club.com for more.

Publisher

Ops Club

Category

news · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Sept 2026

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Monday 19 October: Simmons Bars names Jason Thorndycraft as CEO to lead London expansion

   Simmons Bars appoints Jason Thorndycraft as CEO, while the Chancellor prepares a Budget that could lift 75,000 small businesses out of the business rates net.

2. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Friday 16 October: Hospitality giants pledge 100,000 youth jobs as sector targets NEET crisis

   Major operators including Whitbread and Stonegate partner with government to offer work placements, while Rosa’s Thai and Mollie’s report strong trading results.

3. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Thursday 15 October: Stonegate nears £300m pub sell-off to Heineken to tackle debt mountain

   Stonegate is close to selling 300 pubs to Heineken for £300m, while the industry delivers a 400,000-signature VAT petition to Downing Street ahead of the Budget.

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