Jungmin Seo

Jungmin Seo

Reporter

Reporter at The Caterer, covering hotels, restaurants, foodservice, pubs and the latest openings.

UK winner of Le Taittinger Prix Culinaire announced News

UK winner of Le Taittinger Prix Culinaire announced

20 November 2023 by

Kamil Nowak, senior sous chef at the Michelin-starred Dysart Petersham restaurantin London’s Richmond, has been crowned[...]

Compass Group profits boosted by 'record year' of new business wins News

Compass Group profits boosted by 'record year' of new business wins

20 November 2023 by

Contract caterer Compass Group reported strong growth in all major European markets, most notably in the[...]

Europe’s first Yotelpad to open in London News

Europe’s first Yotelpad to open in London

17 November 2023 by

Europe’s first Yotelpad, affordable hotel group Yotel’s aparthotel brand, is set to open in London’s Stratford[...]

Wagamama runs first cooking class at a female prison News

Wagamama runs first cooking class at a female prison

17 November 2023 by

Wagamama has partnered with a female prison housing over 300 women to offer cooking classes to[...]

Daniela Prela named BCF Young Chef of the Year 2023 News

Daniela Prela named BCF Young Chef of the Year 2023

16 November 2023

Daniela Prela of the Ritz London has been crowned winner of the British Culinary Foundation’s (BCF) Young Chef of the Year 2023.

IHG boss: ‘50% of our hotels are in the pipeline’ News

IHG boss: ‘50% of our hotels are in the pipeline’

16 November 2023

The chief executive officer of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has revealed the group is “still in the early stages of development”, with 50% of its hotels in the pipeline.

Young’s poised to ‘accelerate growth’ through City Pubs acquisition News

Young’s poised to ‘accelerate growth’ through City Pubs acquisition

16 November 2023 by

Pub group Young’s is set to acquire City Pubs for around £162m, having “closely followed the[...]

Don’t ‘throw away’ money on the wrong general manager, says Hilton executive News

Don’t ‘throw away’ money on the wrong general manager, says Hilton executive

15 November 2023 by

The importance of hotel general managers is “often overlooked” despite them being a key part of[...]

Hotels for Trees eyes UK expansion through Avondata partnership News

Hotels for Trees eyes UK expansion through Avondata partnership

15 November 2023 by

Independent property management system (PMS) provider Avondata has partnered with Dutch non-profit organisation Hotels for Trees[...]

Mateo Garcia Leiva named executive chef at Aqua Nueva News

Mateo Garcia Leiva named executive chef at Aqua Nueva

15 November 2023 by

Mateo Garcia Leiva has been appointed executive chef at Aqua Nueva in London’s Soho.

Minute on the clock: Natasha Sideris, Tashas, Battersea Power Station People

Minute on the clock: Natasha Sideris, Tashas, Battersea Power Station

13 November 2023

Tashas first opened in South Africa in 2005. Its founder talks ahead of her London debut at Battersea Power Station

Loungers ‘firmly on track’ for accelerated growth plans News

Loungers ‘firmly on track’ for accelerated growth plans

13 November 2023

Loungers has announced it is “firmly on track” to open 34 new sites in the current financial year.

Jacobs Media Group is honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 Queen's Award for Enterprise.

The highest official awards for UK businesses since being established by royal warrant in 1965. Read more.

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