Eat Out To Help Out scheme serves 10.5m meals in its first three days

Diners queue up for Rishi’s discount dishes: Eat Out To Help Out scheme serves 10.5m discounted meals in its first three days The number of people visiting pubs, cafes and restaurants has tripled in a month  By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 14 August 2020 | Updated: 08:46 BST, 15 August … Read more

Eat Out To Help Out scheme serves 10.5m meals in its first three days

Diners queue up for Rishi’s discount dishes: Eat Out To Help Out scheme serves 10.5m discounted meals in its first three days By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 14 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 14 August 2020 The number of people visiting pubs, cafes and restaurants has tripled in a … Read more

Just Eat will stop using gig economy workers to deliver food, firm’s boss says

Just Eat will stop using gig economy workers to deliver food and instead use staff with more workplace protection, firm’s boss says Jitse Groen, chief exec of Dutch food delivery giant, wants to ‘insure our people’ Gig workers operate on flexible hours and do not enjoy rights such as sick pay or minimum notice periods … Read more

Stay-at-home Brits fuel Just Eat sales: Orders up 32% in first half

Stay-at-home Brits fuel Just Eat sales bonanza: Orders up 32% in first half of 2020 as people turn to takeaways By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 12 August 2020 | Updated: 22:29 BST, 12 August 2020 Just Eat revealed booming order numbers and sales as people stuck at home during the … Read more

Just Eat Takeaway losses soar despite orders rising by a third

Costs of Just Eat Takeaway merger and Grubhub acquisition cause delivery giant’s losses to soar to over £140m despite orders rising by a third Consumers ordered over 250 million meals, helping revenues to surpass €1bn Just Eat’s purchase of Grubhub now awaits regulatory and shareholder approval  By Harry Wise For This Is Money Published: 13:09 … Read more

New ‘use by’ dates on meat sold in supermarkets to provide shoppers 11 days to eat more beef

‘Use by’ dates on meat to be extended to give supermarket shoppers 11 extra days to eat beef as food bosses get set to extend expiry dates before Christmas Shelf life of beef, lamb and pork has been reviewed by Food Standards Agency Chilled beef, including cuts with plastic wrappings, given ten-day use-by labels But … Read more

New ‘use by’ dates on meat sold in supermarkets to provide shoppers 11 days to eat more beef

‘Use by’ dates on meat to be extended to give supermarket shoppers 11 extra days to eat beef as food bosses get set to extend expiry dates before Christmas Shelf life of beef, lamb and pork has been reviewed by Food Standards Agency Chilled beef, including cuts with plastic wrappings, given ten-day use-by labels But … Read more

Franco Manca chief claims there are too many places to eat 

Former Pizza Express boss David Page has built his career on the boom in people eating out – but now he says Britain has too many restaurants.  Observing the ‘Armageddon’ in the hospitality sector, he says 30 per cent of the UK’s restaurants will never reopen after the coronavirus crisis – and applauds the idea … Read more

Surge in restaurant bookings as food lovers enjoy Eat Out to Help Out

Restaurants across Britain have hailed Monday to Wednesday as the new weekend after thousands of diners tucked in on the first day of half-price meals as the Eat Out to Help Out scheme got underway. More than 72,000 venues have signed up to Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s offer of a discount for customers of 50 per … Read more