Royal welcome: Queen attends official opening of long awaited Elizabeth Line May 17, 2022 The Queen amazed everyone when she attended the official opening of the Elizabeth Line on Tuesday morning. The monarch was pictured at Paddington station, where she was welcomed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, London mayor Sadiq Khan and Transport for London (TfL) commissioner Andy Byford. The Queen, 96, met with Crossrail workers and was presented [...]
McDonald’s to launch on Deliveroo as app seeks to be ‘definitive’ online food firm May 17, 2022 Hungry Londoners will be able to order McDonald’s through the Deliveroo app in the coming weeks as the firms forge a UK partnership. The fast food titan will join the restaurants listed on Deliveroo in the UK during the second quarter of 2022. It comes after McDonald’s yesterday revealed it was injecting £250m into redesigning [...]
Tesco to increase payments to pig farmers by £6.6m amid ‘unprecedented costs’ May 16, 2022 Supermarket giant Tesco has announced it will increase payments to pig farmers by £6.6m, as the industry faces price hikes for wheat and soya. Total support for Tesco farmers will stand at £10m since March, as the farming sector faces staggering commodity price inflation. Feed prices have shot up since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier [...]
Hammersmith: Picton snaps up office and retail space for £13.7m as it bets on Olympia redevelopment May 16, 2022 Real estate investment trust Picton has completed a freehold takeover of a mixed-use space in Hammersmith for £13.7m. Charlotte Terrace, on Hammersmith Road, includes four adjoining buildings, with a total of 28,500 sq ft of office space and 4,400q ft of retail space. The office space was redeveloped in 1990 behind a Grade II listed [...]
Here’s a tip: Hospitality bosses call for movement on service charge protections amid labour crunch May 16, 2022 As the hospitality industry faces a labour crunch threatening to bring it to its knees, bosses have said legislation to protect workers’ tips could help freshen its image. Ministers have promised legal protections for employees’ tips since 2016. In a further blow, the Employment Bill, set to contain this framework, was scrapped from the Queen’s [...]
Delivery design: McDonald’s to inject £250m into upgrading venues to cater for online orders May 16, 2022 McDonald’s has announced it is pumping more than £250m into redesigning its restaurants in the UK and Ireland, to dedicate more space to online orders. In a four-year upgrade scheme titled ‘Convenience of the Future’, the fast food titan said it will seek to provide diners with an even speedier experience. Some 200 restaurants across [...]
Greggs opens 49 new shops after sales of chicken goujons soar May 16, 2022 Sausage roll seller Greggs has seen shares dip after admitting city sales still lag behind the rest of its sites. Although the bakery chain said it had had a “good” start to 2022 on Monday, shares were down some 2.8 per cent in the afternoon. The firm has been reshaping its portfolio of stores to [...]
Nightclubs warn of ‘tragedy’ without government intervention into bouncer shortage May 16, 2022 Nightclubs have warned of a “tragedy where lives are lost” unless the government intervenes to ameliorate a shortage of bouncers. Late-night venues are “running out of time” as a busy summer season approaches, bosses at the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and UK Door Security Association cautioned. Nightclubs are eagerly awaiting their first full summer [...]
Women ‘driven out of the workforce’ by pricey childcare costs May 16, 2022 Pricey childcare is exacerbating the country’s gender pay gap and driving women out of the workforce, according to a London thinktank. Ministers have been urged to take further action to provide cheaper childcare, by The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) in a new paper today. Some 30 per cent of two-earner household incomes is dished [...]
West End: Shaftesbury investor raises concern with £3.5bn merger with rival Capco May 15, 2022 Concerns have been raised over West End landlord Shaftesbury’s planned £3.5bn merger with rival Capital & Counties Properties (Capco), by a key investor. Shareholders could be left worse for wear, Chris Hills, chief investment consultant at Investec, which has a 1.65 per cent stake in Shaftesbury, told The Times. As Shaftesbury trades at just an [...]
