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I have a total of eight different hospitality apps on my phone, all downloaded and used to varying degrees over the last few months, writes Katy Moses. It therefore came as no great surprise when KAM’s most recent research revealed that more than half of…

We’re now more than six months on from the fateful day in March when PM Boris Johnson mandated that all hospitality venues should close, followed in quick succession by a nationwide lockdown, writes Mike Berry. The drastic government response to the pandemic left business in…

It’s been a long week. Without wanting to sound too much like Boris (who would want to do that?) there’s little doubt the sector is once more on a war footing, writes Mark Stretton. The last time I contributed to Propel’s Friday Opinion, we were about…

We’ve entered a new period of dining out. The pandemic has transformed the eating and drinking out landscape and the industry has put in phenomenal effort, innovation and creativity to encourage people back into restaurants, pubs and bars, writes Sheniz Ozdemir. From completely adapting venues,…

One of the most interesting things in the industry at the moment is that everyone is behaving differently.  The rules of the game aren’t known, or if they are they keep changing, writes Will Beckett. It feels a bit like March but in reverse (and perhaps…

In the frenetic, kinetic chaos of the early lockdown days, I distinctly remember a conversation with Robin Rowland, former CEO of Yo! Sushi and now partner at restaurant investment group TriSpan, writes Mark Stretton. Amid the turmoil of a hospitality industry reacting to enforced closure,…