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| Finalists for UK Restaurant Manager of the Year 2010 announced |
| The names of the six restaurant managers who have made it through to the final of the UK Restaurant Manager of the Year 2010 awards have been revealed. The finalists in the competition, organised by front-of-house service training body The Academy of Food & Wine are... |
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| Von Essen names Hotel Verta general manager |
| Von Essen has announced the appointment of Andrew Thomason as the general manger of the soon-to-be-launched Hotel Verta. Due to open at The London Heliport in Battersea in July 2010, the 70-bedroom Hotel Verta is Von Essen´s first hotel in the capital and the second hotel in its Metropolitan set. |
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| Eight Chicago Rock Café venues up for sale |
| Property agent Colliers CRE is to market eight Chicago Rock Café venues and two other sites owned by 3D Entertainment, following the bar operator's collapse into administration. |
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| Marriott International to double portfolio |
| Marriott International plans to double its portfolio of hotels in Europe by 2015. The company currently has 174 hotels with 40,000 rooms throughout the continent, and expects this to increase to 80,000 rooms over the next five years. |
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| Sodexo Prestige wins £5m contract with Tyne & Wear Archive & Museums |
| Sodexo Prestige has won a £5m contract to provide event and banqueting services for at number of venues for Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM). Sodexo will provide locally-themed menus at the Discovery Museum, Laing Art Gallery, South Shields Museum and Art Gallery, and Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum. This is in addition to the Great North Museum: Hancock, for which Sodexo won the contract last May. |
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| London´s Montcalm hotel offers personal scents |
| The five-star Montcalm hotel in London is claiming to be the first fully-scented hotel in the world. In conjunction with interior landscape company, Ambius, the 153-bedroom hotel is inviting guests to select their personal room aroma from a selection of exotic fragrances when making their reservation... |
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| UK hotel bosses downgrade hopes for 2010 upturn |
| UK hotel executives have reversed their prediction that the hotel market would see a sustained upturn in 2010, with just 2% now expecting its fortunes to improve this year. A year ago, 37% hoped that 2010 would bring solid growth but most hoteliers have been forced into a rethink. |
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| Weekly hotel revpar rises by 10.6% in London |
| Hotel revenue per available room (revpar) rose by 10.6% in London but fell by 1% across the regions in the week ending 20 February 2010, according to figures from hospitality research company STR Global. Revpar at London hotels increased to £101.52, up from £91.79 in the equivalent week of 2009. |
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