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  • 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,…

  • I have seen a good spectrum of hospitality in operation since ‘Super Saturday’ on July 4th, and a mixed picture emerges of the safe distancing and mitigation measures that are being taken, with some more relaxed or less strict, and others following guidelines to the…

  • Recently, FSC has been part of a collective of agencies contributing to the Pub, Restaurant and Coffee Shop 100 Day Brand, Marketing and PR Playbook. For many smaller operators considering their marketing mix, PR may well be a bit of a mystery, so we like…

  • Just the very mention of 4 July is starting to bring me out in hives, writes guest blogger Katy Moses. We’ve being told that some of the hospitality industry might be able to begin to open, tentatively and with the right hygiene practices and physical…

  • FSC has been part of a collective of agencies contributing to the Pub, Restaurant and Coffee Shop 100 Day Brand, Marketing and PR Playbook. As part of this playbook, we looked at the key role that content plays in helping operators set themselves apart from…

  • It’s hard to believe that, only a few weeks ago, coronavirus was thought of as a localised problem contained in the sprawling, far away city of Wuhan in China, writes Mike Berry. Now (17 April), there are very few places left on earth that remain…