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In a recent interview Marco Pierre White commented on the importance of the front-of-house experience in a restaurant. We take a look at ways to measure the effectiveness of customer service in a restaurant or cafe.

As part of the preparations for Brexit, supermarkets have been buying up non perishable foodstuff. How could the anticipated shortage of fresh food affect the F&B and hospitality industry?

With the National Living Wage coming into effect soon, many will be considering how it will affect their staff and industry as a whole. Statistics from Fourth make it seem less daunting for small businesses in hospitality than you might assume.

As the repercussions of Brexit come closer, more and more industries are discovering unexpected ways they will be impacted. For many this will involve a reduced pool from which to hire employees. This particular problem will hit the hospitality, food and beverage...

Childcare Vouchers (Old scheme) – This employer led scheme allows you to provide a member of staff with childcare vouchers worth up to £55 per week completely tax free. You can gift the vouchers instead of salary (salary sacrifice). You save the employer’s national...

Gifts – As of 6th April 2016, “trivial” benefits up to the value of £50 are tax and N.I. free.This covers gifts to your staff such as a bottle of wine, chocolates, flowers etc. However, cash gifts and gift vouchers are excluded from this. Entertainment – You can pay...

HMRC have changed the rules on the re-imbursement of expenses to employees. Expenses are no longer treated as taxable income and do not need to be reported on a P11D annually as before. Expenses qualify for this treatment if, had the employee borne the cost personally they would be entitled to claim a tax deduction for it….

AIA which provides 100% tax relief on qualifying Capex has been set at £200,000 from 1st January 2016. This has now been made permanent. Annual Investment Allowance has fluctuated throughout its history. It started at £50,000 in 2008, rose to £100,000, fell again to...

For the last 43 years firms who registered for VAT were able to claim back VAT paid on stocks and assets held at the date of registration. HMRC have changed its interpretation of the rules to a “pro rata” basis. For example a van bought by a business a year prior to...

National minimum wage increased on 1st October from £6.50 to £6.70 for employees aged 21 and over. On 1st April 2016 the National Living Wage will be introduced requiring employers to pay £7.20 per hour to employees aged 25 and over. Also from 6 April 2016 the...