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The Drinks Trust launches diversity survey
The Drinks Trust has launched its first industry wide survey to gauge how the trade is coping with the pandemic and its views on diversity within the industry.
Survey finds ‘extremely low’ Covid transmission rates in hospitality venues
A survey by UKHospitality has found that Covid-19 transmission rates in the on-trade are “extremely low”, with 0.06 customer infections per venue reported.
Edinburgh restaurant imports ski cable cars for socially distanced dining
A bar and restaurant in Edinburgh has imported six cable car gondolas from the French Alps to help enforce social distancing when it reopens to customers.
Restaurants urged not to exploit business lunch ‘loophole’
The government has warned that a loophole in the Tier 2 restrictions that allows colleagues to meet inside a restaurant for business should only be used by those that have a real need.
Amuse-bouches: The latest restaurant news bites
In restaurant news this week: a loophole is found in Tier 2 restrictions which seems to allow business lunches, Scottish hospitality groups begin legal action against government measures, and Gordon Ramsay Burger is to open its first site outside Las Vegas in Harrods.
67 Pall Mall to host first-ever diversity webinar
67 Pall Mall, the Mayfair-based members’ club for people with a love of fine wine, is set to host its first-ever event on diversity with four wine experts.
NY restaurant mistakenly serves $2,000 wine to couple who ordered $18 Pinot
New York restaurateur Keith McNally has proved that expensive wine mix-ups are not new when sharing a story of how a couple who ordered a US$18 bottle of Pinot Noir were accidentally given a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1989.
Tier three hospitality venues suffer 60% sales drop
Restaurants, pubs and bars in areas of the UK in the ‘very high’ alert tier saw their year-on-year sales slide by as much as 60% last Thursday to Saturday.
Amazon Prime to screen The Wine Show series three this month
A year after it was first announced, series three of The Wine Show, which sees actor Dominic West join the team, will be shown on Amazon Prime on 29 October.
Star Trek cocktail book launches
Mixologists Simon Pellet and Adrian Calderbank have created a colourful compendium of intergalactic cocktails inspired by hit sci fi TV show, Star Trek.