Such wonderful news 🤗🤗🤗

Guess who’s hosting Chiddingstone Castle’s first ever Food & Drink Festival! 🏰 That’s right - our own Matthew is set to present the event’s Live Kitchen Stage on Sunday 22nd Sep. Expect a lot of live music, in addition to food & drink vendors, stalls, and family entertainment 🙌

If your work is planning a Xmas party, please ask that it’s held in an independent venue. It could be a lifeline to an independent restaurant, pub or bar. We’re loosing far too many on a daily basis….please do your bit.

Hey Jon, Midweek Motorsport IMSA Radio Just managed to remember to turn on just as we went green. Been doing a huge house tidy today and found this in the garage. Points for whose signatures these are!

Written a couple of posts. But just can't be bothered. - Our lobbyists have failed - Labour has thrown Labour intensive businessss under the bus Budget is a shit show. #Hospitality

This budget has increased my wage costs by £48k Rachel Reeves how is my pub supposed to find that money?? the hospitality industry is facing a wave of closures! Along with other cost increase it will be a miracle if we survive Kate Nicholls OBE I hope your doing everything you can

💯 a table of 3 is actually sat on a table for four. So you’re denying the business of 50% of its potential turnover. Do not do this.

Today MPs are debating the increases to National Insurance Contributions, which are going to impact wage rises in the Spring. Our video helps to explain the issue, and what it will mean for jobs, growth and wages. Please share and find out more here 👉 ukhospitality.org.uk/campaign/natio…

Does anyone in TW do this ? Have you? Dare you even admit it? Do your friends do it? Is this the norm?

Hospitality businesses are up against it. Yesterday, I met with Kate Nicholls OBE, Hippodrome Casino and @Fullers to discuss the impact of the Autumn Statement on the hospitality sector. Their industry needs our support more than ever.

I’ve said it for years, been called all sorts of names because of it. But finally the argument is over. It’s official Disney+ says so. Accept it, it’s over, move on.

"The Budget measures will increase the cost of employing one employee by £2,500." Sir John Whittingdale MP MP for Maldon raised the impact that increased employer NICs will have on hospitality and the need for a delay to implementation, to allow for closer consideration of these impacts.

Why did Lib Dems in Tunbridge Wells this week vote against a motion supporting the Climate & Nature Bill being brought to parliament by one of their own MPs, & worse than that, try to force through a weakening of the council’s own commitment to net zero at the same time? 🧵 1.

“2025 is currently set to be painful for hospitality”. Our CEO Kate Nicholls OBE spoke to Daily Express about what 2025 looks like for hospitality businesses and why changes to employer NICs will be so damaging to the sector. Read the full story 👇 express.co.uk/news/politics/…

I've just watched restaurateur Jason Atherton on Sky News. I 100% agree. If this Government want to take Hospitality seriously they need to appoint a Hospitality Minister. Someone who understands the sector and fights for the sector. Someone who can restore the sector to what

This leaves only Malta, Denmark and the UK as outliers who charge the Full Vat on Eating out.

It’s childish, but sometimes typos just work. Bravo

If Labour want to get back on track, they need to acknowledge the millions of Hospitality voters who feel let down. The millions of small business owners struggling with inflated bills. The millions of people who care about our pubs, our Independents and our High Streets.