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Hospitality

Restaurants, bars, hotels — what's changing in the UK hospitality merchant base.

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Hospitality ·

Gopal's Corner opens first site outside London at Birmingham Bullring

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UK merchant data ·

Apollo alternatives for UK local business and hospitality

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UK merchant data ·

Brizo FoodMetrics Alternatives for the UK, Ireland and Europe

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UK merchant data ·

DataLane Alternatives for the UK, Ireland and Europe

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Hospitality ·

Taco Bell sets October 6 opening for first Carlisle restaurant

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UK merchant data ·

How many pubs and bars are there in the UK? (2026)

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UK merchant data ·

Lusha alternatives for UK hospitality and local business

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UK merchant data ·

UK restaurant market size: how big is the market? (2026)

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Hospitality ·

Revolut launches 0% fee biometric POS for UK hospitality

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Revolut launches facial recognition checkout as McDonald's commits $8.5bn to modernisation

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Hospitality ·

Stasher's $4m UK hotel locker push names Premier Inn as anchor

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Hospitality ·

Las Iguanas York site set to become Indian Tiffin Room after closure

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Hospitality ·

BrewDog seals five-year Leicester Tigers deal as supplier contracts shift

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Hospitality ·

Giggling Squid buys Thai Express UK out of administration

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Hospitality ·

Chipotle opens 22nd UK site as it pilots Palantir food-safety platform

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Hospitality ·

Queensway Hospitality Group reopens The May Tree in Helston after Whitbread exit

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Hospitality ·

Digital ID apps go live for age checks in England and Wales pubs

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Hospitality ·

Three New UK Openings Give Vendors Fresh Buying Windows

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Hospitality ·

Whitbread closes Brewers Fayre and 89 sites as it exits UK restaurants

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UK merchant data ·

How many restaurants are there in the UK? (2026)

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Hospitality ·

Hotels lose up to 20% of room revenue through OTA gaps, Net Affinity finds

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Hospitality ·

Modulr gets direct CHAPS access, first non-bank across all three UK schemes

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Hospitality ·

Mobile wallets now reach 65% of UK adults as cash falls to 8% of payments

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Hospitality ·

Stripe's $7bn OpenRouter deal and Square's SMB finance push

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Hospitality ·

RCS messaging surges 300% for UK hospitality brands, Infobip data shows

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Hospitality ·

Yuno Raises $45 Million to Push In-Person Payments Into UK Hospitality

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Hospitality ·

Mews Secures First Hospitality OS E-Money Licence Across the EEA

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Hospitality ·

Wingstop pushes for 4am licence in Northampton as late-night fast-food hours stack up

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UK merchant data ·

Two Companies Now Process Most UK Hospitality Payments. That Changes Who You Can Sell To.

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UK merchant data ·

A 10% VAT cut would change who you sell to, not just how much they spend

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Data quality ·

We've Got Too Much Data: What a Pub Group's IT Director Just Admitted About Hospitality

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Data quality ·

Selling To UK Restaurants: A Data Layer Problem

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