Monthly Archives: May 2014

Staycity secures £17m Birmingham apartment deal

Leading serviced apartment operator Staycity has signed a £17m deal giving the fast-expanding company 170 further apartments in Birmingham. The property, due to open in May 2015, will consist of one- and two-bedroom apartments in the city’s historic Jewellery Quarter. Dublin-based Staycity currently operates 82 apartments in Birmingham’s Arcadian centre, near New Street Station. Said […]

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‘Gluten-free’, ‘freshly made’ and ‘natural hot dogs’ are top trends at US food show

Peach-flavoured milk, butter with maple syrup, gluten-free dishes, ginger blossom-flavoured drinks, and the  chilli-based flavouring sriracha were just some of the new foods on taste for the first time at this year’s National Restaurant Association (NRA) show in Chicago. The NRA, one of the world’s biggest food and drink trade shows, is traditionally the launch-pad […]

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Moët UK Sommelier of the Year 2014: semi-finalists revealed

The Academy of Food & Wine Service (AFWS) has announced the names of the sommeliers going through to the semi-finals of the Moët UK Sommelier of the Year 2014 following the regional finals held earlier this week in Bristol, two London venues and Stafford. The 2014 semi-finalists are: Loic Avril, The Fat Duck, Bray Romain […]

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Foodservice operators scale back on cost-cutting measures as business confidence starts to rise

Chefs and foodservice operators are feeling more confident about future trading than they were 12 months ago, with 86% of those taking part in a recent survey anticipating an increase in sales over the next year and many less inclined to implement further cost-cutting measures. According to Eating Out-Look*, a new quarterly survey of consumers […]

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Staycity makes three senior appointments as expansion drive continues

European serviced apartment operator Staycity is pleased to announce the appointment of a non-executive board director and two senior executives. Former Accor chief operating officer and member of Accor’s global executive committee, Michael Flaxman, has been appointed to the board as a non-executive director. Flaxman, a much respected hotel operator, spent 27 years with Accor […]

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