Patisserie Valerie plunged into crisis after £40m black hole in accounts, The Guardian reports. About 70 of the cafe group’s nearly 200 stores and concessions will close immediately, with the loss of about 900 jobs. Patisserie Holdings, the parent company that also owns the Druckers Vienna Patisserie, Philpotts, Baker & Spice and Flour
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RESTAURANT group Carluccio’s has announced it will pay for its 1,550 non-British EU employees to apply for ‘settled-status’ to stay in the UK after Brexit. Under the EU Settlement Scheme, all EU citizens living in the UK will need to apply for the right to remain in the UK after Brexit.
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So you thought pineapple on pizza is bad? The latest abomination to grace our plates is banana pizza, which is apparently a standard menu item in Sweden. Bleurgh. One of the most popular banana pizzas in the Scandinavian country is called 'the Afrikana', which has banana, peanuts, mushrooms and curry powder on
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French celebrity chef Joël Robuchon has passed away at the age of 73, his spokeswoman confirmed to CNN Monday. Robuchon owned and ran restaurants on three continents and was the world's most Michelin-starred chef, according to his website and his spokeswoman. Robuchon, who had been suffering with cancer, died in Geneva, Switzerland,
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French butchers say they're under threat from militant vegans. And they've asked the French government for protection. What's at stake, say butchers, is not just the right to eat meat — but a way of life. Didier and Sandrine Tass run their butcher shop on a busy street in Paris' 15tharrondissement.
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9 people dead following Listeria outbreak – Tesco, Aldi, Waitrose, Iceland, Lidl – Issue Product recall. Please please check on old people and loved ones who may not be in the loop, listeria can be more serious for people who have weakened immune systems. Full 43 product list for recall is shown
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It has become a trend where customers of restaurants, bars and hotels want to express themselves on TripAdvisor, Yelp and other public reviews websites. Sometimes these reviews have a very low star rating and complaints which can be justified or plain immoral. One online user named 'Helen E', thought her experience
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This week Twitter totally ate up an old clip of another chef giving Gordon Ramsay the Gordon Ramsay treatment. In the segment from Season 5 of “The F Word,” the executive chef at London’s now-defunct Blue Elephant basically tells Ramsay his pad thai sucks. The Thai chef, whom the host calls “Chef Chang,”
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A GROUP of vegan protestors who demonstrated outside a restaurant had a nasty shock when the owner and chef responded by carving up and then eating a venison steak in front of them, it has been revealed. Michael Hunter owns the Antler restaurant in Toronto, Canada and calls himself “The Hunter
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A pub failed a hygiene inspection and got a rating of zero after a slug was discovered in the freezer and bags of mouldy cheese were found to be more than a year out of date. Ye Olde Starre Inne had a raft of other horrors waiting for food inspectors including
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