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News & Opinion 4 Fridays scraps free meals for staff 8 News in brief The week’s top stories
Business
16 The Caterer interview Laurence Whittle, general manager, Yotel Manchester Deansgate
20 Spotlight on: EPoS systems Technology to link your point of sale with stocktake data
24 Cover story The team behind Vacherin on navigating the London landscape after CH&Co
Chef
30 Sunday best Rethinking the roast, from Hawksmoor’s new side dishes to Andrew Pern’s luxurious Yorkshire pudding royale
34 Menuwatch Sollip, London
36 Recipe of the week Ume miso-sautéed vegetables from Japan: The Vegetarian Cookbook
Products
38 Chill out The latest refrigeration advances, from blast chillers to temperature monitoring
44 Product news What’s happening in the world of suppliers
People
46 Minute on the clock Marguerite Keogh, head chef, Five Fields, London
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ome years ago there was an apocryphal tale doing the rounds that a well-known fast-food chain didn’t have a property
team, it simply looked at the location of its main competitor and pitched up close by. These days that’s much less likely to
be plausible given the exodus of hospital- ity businesses from our high streets. With falling footfall, the burden of business rates and crippling energy costs, what once was considered a prime city centre site is now more likely to be a burden on the balance sheet. Around the country former restaurant
sites are shuttered as operators leave high streets and, on current evidence, there is little appetite for others to take their place. The latest group to pull back its presence is Prezzo, which this week announced it was to close 46 loss-making restaurants across the country (page 7). It said the high street closures were a
result of the cost of living crisis denting consumer confidence, coupled with soaring inflation putting up the price of everything from spaghetti to pizza sauce. Prezzo’s remaining sites are in locations it said were suited to changing consumer habits, such as shopping centres, retail parks, tourist destinations and travel hubs. There are still some high street success
stories and it can only be hoped that landlords take an open-minded view to supporting their hospitality tenants – many of whom are now being further hampered by Covid-related rent repayments. They are increasingly one of the last remaining reasons for people to visit our struggling high streets.
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