SLTN Award-winner Zach is a champion for Scotland’s bartenders
Zach Sapato, who was given the 2023 SLTN Hospitality Hero Award, started his bartending career in Illinois, going on to win US-wide cocktail competitions for Amaro Montenegro and Angostura.
Simon Keane’s strategy for Malone’s pubs and spirits – go big or go home
At a time when many hospitality businesses have battened down the hatches against the economic storm, the Malone family has correctly read the conditions and steered a course to success.
Young adults are the biggest consumers of low and no alcohol alternatives
44% of 18-to-24 year olds surveyed said that they had drank alcohol alternatives occasionally or regularly, a big increase on the 31% recorded in 2022.
Hospitality industry workers three times more likely to be smokers
Health experts have called on hospitality venue operators and management to do more to wean their staff off cigarettes, as the sector has become a stubborn bastion of the unhealthy habit.
Parliamentary praise for Peterculter’s The Ploughman restaurant and bar
The Ploughman, a local pub and restaurant noted for its traditional Scottish fayre, is co-owned by Alistair Dornan and Simon Cruickshank, who assumed ownership of the business in 2019.
Hospitality must offer inclusion for non-alcohol drinkers too
While the trend towards ‘low&no’ drinks has been around for a while now, it would be a mistake to assume that everyone - on either side of the bar – fully understands the category.
Crerar reports turnover and gross profit growth as new owners come in
The group’s portfolio cumulatively notched up a 31% increase in turnover, with summer sales exceeding pre-Covid levels, and a gross profit increase of more than 30%.
Plans submitted for SWG3 hotel that will ‘redefine Glasgow’s Clydeside’
The hotel is a further phase of the GRID initiative - the Glasgow Riverside Innovation District - a project aimed at promoting industry and innovation in the communities close to the Riverside
Scottish Budget an ‘extreme disappointment’ to the hospitality sector
Hopes that ScotGov would match the 75% business rates relief enjoyed by England’s hospitality businesses were dashed as the latest Scottish Budget offered only scraps of comfort for the trade.
Virgin Hotels Glasgow staff jobless as business shuts ahead of Xmas
The closure, whilst unexpected, did not come out of a clear blue sky - the owner of the Glasgow hotel, Lloyds Developments Limited, had fallen into administration at the start of this month.
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