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The changes, effective from January 2016, see Lynx co-founder John Pinder move to the new role of chairman.

In the year-to-date, total sales are up 0.3% to £586.2m, boosted by a strong performance in non-branded, with sales up 5.3% to £71.6m.

The company behind the Winnow smart meter, which aims to help chefs cut food waste in half, will also use the money to invest in product development.

Contactless payments now account for one in 10 card transactions, and contactless spend is nearing £1bn a month across the whole market.

That’s the view of Prestige Purchasing, which has partnered with CGA Strategy to produce a new price index (the Foodservice Price Index or FPI) that exposes the fact that the level of food deflatio

Deli & Bakery by Jamie Oliver and Jamie’s Italian will be firsts for Norway when they open alongside well known brands such as Starbucks.

The redevelopment, which will also include an extension to the site, will allow its Aqua Pura natural mineral water brand to grow its share of the UK bottled water market.

Brownlow brings with him 25 years of experience in the property industry and will oversee acquisitions in London and regionally throughout the rest of the UK.

On average, a worker in the ‘accommodation and foodservice activities’ industry, which encompasses the hospitality sector, earned £240 a week in September 2015, down £2 from the figures in August 2

The report by accountancy firm KPMG has found that 90% of bar staff, 85% of waiters and waitresses and 80% of kitchen and catering assistants earn below the Living Wage.