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Your restaurant has great food. The service is excellent, the staff are friendly and, most importantly, your customers like it. But in these economic times,...

THE Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh has picked up a top award. The Royal Mile venue was named Best Visitor Experience 2011 by the Association...

THE chief executive of trade body BII has left the organisation after three years at the helm. Neil Robertson has taken the role of director...

CHRISTMAS has come at a good time for the Kama Sutra Restaurant Group. The Glasgow-based Indian food operator, which was formed in September last year,...

SIMON Howie, the chairman of Perthshire-based butcher Simon Howie Foods, has been awarded the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Business Award. Howie started his career in...

TWO leading lights of the Scottish hospitality scene have been recognised by universities for the contribution they have made to the sectors they’ve forged...

STAFF rotas, holidays, deliveries, local events, board meetings – there’s no shortage of important dates operators need to keep track of. That’s why SLTN has...

A CELEBRATORY dinner was held late last month to mark the refurbishment of the Macdonald Inchyra at Falkirk. Some £4 million is said to have...

HOSPITALITY industry charity HIT Scotland has confirmed its next Emerging Talent Conference will take place in Glasgow. The event, which will see around 80...

The owners of three licensed venues in Wigtown are facing financial meltdown – after being stripped of vital weekend trading hours back in March. Sinead Farrell and Derek Hart told SLTN they have endured a severe downturn at the Crown Hotel in Newton Stewart since the licensing board cut its trading hours from 2am to 1am on Friday and Saturday nights.