CODE Hospitality

CODE Hospitality's Happiest Places to Work 2025, in partnership with Planday, and supported by URocked is back! Register your company now to take part and be in with the chance to be listed as one of the happiest places to work in hospitality.   Once registered, you’ll receive an email containing your registration pack and unique links to the questionnaire and survey within 15 minutes. https://lnkd.in/eU-K8Fgk

Congratulation to Hatty Cary, our Food & Drink Studio Producer at Fortnum & Mason, who was recently named as one of CODE Hospitality’s Women of the Year for 2025. Now in its eighth year, and judged by some of the most respected names in food and drink, this annual list showcases the women who are currently shaping the hospitality industry in the UK. The list was announced at an awards ceremony on Monday 31 March. Adam Hyman, Founder of Knife & Fork Media, started the awards in 2018 by consulting women in the industry - such as Lisa Markwell, a chef and journalist who is now editor of The Telegraph Magazine – to establish a critical framework that would help produce a meaningful and impactful list. "I want to say congratulations to all the women on this year’s list, who were picked from over 1,400 nominations. It’s never an easy task but each year we make sure we highlight the women who are going above and beyond in their jobs and are making hospitality a better place for all of the people who work in it." CODE had this to say about Hatty's contribution. "Fortnum’s is much, much more than somewhere one goes to pick up a jar of marmalade or a tin of leaf tea. The storied department store on Piccadilly is a hive of gastronomic activity with the whole third floor dedicated to a Food & Drink Studio, a “playground of delicious discovery”. Former marketing and communications consultant Hatty Cary programmes all the demos, masterclasses, panel talks, and supper clubs that take place there. She looks beyond the famous names to chefs, experts, producers and growers that can really bring something new to the space. She makes the 318-year-old institution feel relevant. So far in 2025, she’s invited in Nadiya Hussain for a Ramadan supper club and Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed to talk gut health." Great to have you on Team Fortnum's Hatty! To find out more about the CODE Hospitality Women of the Year Awards click here: https://lnkd.in/eYTknTgA #teamFortnums #facesofFortnums #foodie #foodanddrink #hospitalitycareers

What happened in hospitality last week? An update from the CODE bulletin newsletter: 1. Friends, business partners, and fellow Mancunians, Johnny Smith and Daniel Willis of Luca in Clerkenwell, have launched a new hospitality group together called Smith & Willis. 2. NYC’s Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer opens a massive London flagship on Glasshouse Street on 17 April. 3. CODE Hospitality's Happiest Places to Work 2025 registrations are now open - register your company now https://lnkd.in/eU-K8Fgk 4. Claude and Lucy Bosi – Lucy is one of CODE Hospitality’s Women of the Year 2025 – have announced the imminent arrival of une deuxième Joséphine, opening 24 April on Blandford Street in Marylebone. Sign up to our free newsletter to get the latest industry news & insight: https://lnkd.in/eaw338ss

Over a decades-long career, Dame Karen Jones has changed the face of hospitality on the high street. From Dome and Café Rouge in the 1980s, to Spirit Group in the early 2000s, and on to the present day and her roles at Deliveroo, Hawksmoor, Frontier Pubs, and Mowgli, Jones has never lost sight of what it’s all about and who it’s all for. Read more about CODE Hospitality’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2025 Dame Karen Jones: https://lnkd.in/eJCxytAJ

'On men, women, sexism, and the elephants in the room' by Will Beckett Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eG_apMUp

Dame Karen Jones, an industry veteran with decades of experience as a founder, entrepreneur and non-executive director, agreed, saying: “If there’s one thing that I would wish for everybody in this room and for every woman in hospitality, or contemplating going into hospitality, it’s confidence. How you get it is a hard one to say. But I do think that in order to nurture it, you need cheerleaders and we should all be cheerleaders for each other.”... Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eHQzryDT

Some of the most influential and inspiring female leaders in British hospitality gathered at The Goring in Belgravia on Monday 31 March for a celebratory lunch to mark the announcement of CODE Hospitality’s Women of the Year 2025, in partnership with Bibendum Wine. The event was an opportunity to honour all 51 of the women on this year’s Women of the Year list and, in turn, to recognise the contribution made by so many women to the UK hospitality industry today. Discover the full list: https://lnkd.in/e9_hJfNb) 🎥 Joe Gollifer

Some of the most influential and inspiring female leaders in British hospitality gathered at The Goring in Belgravia on Monday 31 March for a celebratory lunch to mark the announcement of CODE Hospitality’s Women of the Year 2025, in partnership with Bibendum Wine. The event was an opportunity to honour all 51 of the women on this year’s Women of the Year list and, in turn, to recognise the contribution made by so many women to the UK hospitality industry today. Discover the full list: https://lnkd.in/e9_hJfNb) 🎥 Joe Gollifer

Last week, we hosted our first CODE x OpenTable industry lunch of 2025 at The Parakeet, bringing together some of the amazing people who keep London’s hospitality scene thriving. These gatherings are all about great conversations, connections, and, of course, incredible food! A huge shoutout to OpenTable for making these events happen and The Parakeet for being such fantastic hosts. If this one was anything to go by, we can’t wait for the next event at The Ninth on 7 April! Big thanks to everyone who joined us - Aaron Potter, Wildflowers Adam Caddy, Sessions Arts Club Aya Amer, LYLE'S Ed McIlroy, Four Legs Luci Brierley, Mountain Beak Street Marc Summers, Bubala Rik Campbell, Kricket Group Adam Hyman Blair Millican Angus Raffles Laura D'Elia Sasha Shaker

I LOVE WOMEN! 💪 Every time I get in a room full of women I leave feeling invigorated and inspired. Everything from hen dos, female founder meet ups to today’s CODE Hospitality ‘Women of the Year’ lunch. It was SUCH a privilege to be chosen for the ‘Women of the year’ list, but mostly it just made me want to sing about women from the hilltops. At a time when it feel scarier than ever (in my lifetime) to be a woman, these kind of awards and get togethers mean EVEN MORE. The ambition, kindness, smartness and empathy that filled the room made me feel like together, we can move MOUNTAINS. Thanks CODE Hospitality for reminding me of that. #botivo #founders #femalefounders Botivo Drinks | B corp Drinks | B corp