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#234: The News Review, Grumpy Fryers, Scottish awards and the stories shaping hospitality

#234: The News Review, Grumpy Fryers, Scottish awards and the stories shaping hospitality

Update: 2025-11-30
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In Episode 234 of The Ceres Podcast News Review, hosts Stelios Theocharous and David Nicolaou break down the week's most important stories for fish and chip shops and hospitality operators. With their usual mix of clarity, experience and straight talking, they explore what the headlines really mean for independent businesses on the ground.

This episode covers:

  • A quick look at David and Craig's new venture, The Grumpy Fryers, and why fresh trade-led content matters

  • The Scottish awards expanding into England, and how that could raise standards across the UK

  • Thirteen months of decline in hospitality jobs, and what it signals for the industry ahead of the Budget

  • The £50,000 extractor fan that turned into a £2.5 million planning disaster, and the compliance lesson behind it

  • McDonald's under renewed scrutiny over workplace harassment, and the wider safeguarding message for every operator employing young staff

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#234: The News Review, Grumpy Fryers, Scottish awards and the stories shaping hospitality

#234: The News Review, Grumpy Fryers, Scottish awards and the stories shaping hospitality

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