Catering and Hospitality

The boom in dining may be waning for Portugal’s restaurants sector, particularly in Lisbon and other large cities, according to the business daily Negócios. Over the past 10 years, and even more [...]

Lisbon’s Belle Epoch 1920s café and patisserie ‘Versailles’ and steak house ‘Café de São Bento’ each celebrate milestone anniversaries this year. The café Versailles, named after the famous [...]

Restaurant Brands Iberia has notified the competitions authority that it has purchased the Burger King franchise in Portugal. The notification of the acquisition by RBI for the exclusive control [...]

The Portuguese hotel, catering and allied business association AHRESP have come up with measures which it says could help ease the chronic lack of staff in the country’s tourism sector. The move [...]

Almost 50% of Portugal’s restaurants saw their income fall by over 40% in January while a third of accommodation businesses lost more than 60% as a result of the continued fallout from the [...]

You’ve heard of Uber Eats and Glovo, the restaurant delivery service. Well, now the virtual supermarket concept has been launched onto the Portuguese market. Blok and Gorillas are the two new [...]

By the end of 2021 one in four eateries in Portugal will be technically bankrupt according to estimates from the Bank of Portugal. The BoP forecasts that 26% of companies in the restaurant and [...]

The Portuguese parliament has thrown out a call for tax relief to help beleaguered guest house owners operating in the country through local accommodation and airbnb schemes. Last week several [...]

Portugal’s hospitality industry faces implosion warns the industry’s association as many salaries for January have yet to be paid. Says the Portuguese hospitality association AHRESP, the [...]