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Bill Protects Workers' Tips

A Bill was successfully passed in the Seanad last night which will ensure bar and restaurant workers keep their tips.

Sinn Féin's Bill to give staff a legal right to their tips has passed Committee stage in the Seanad with all-party support. tipping

It will make it illegal for employers to take their workers' tips and ensure that employees are protected by the law.

It means businesses would have to display their tipping policy to ensure customers have full transparency as to how their tip will be shared.

Hotels RevPAR rise

Hotels across Ireland have reported positive revenue per available room (RevPAR) for January, according to analysts employed by Davy Stockbrokers.

RevPAR rose 0.9% in Dublin during the first month of the year, with the capital's occupancy being down 0.8 percentage points and its average daily rate being up 2.1%, while RevPAR in regional Ireland grew 4.9%, with occupancy being up by 0.5 percentage points and the average daily rate rising 3.9%.

The positive RevPAR results come despite a 4.5% increase in the hospitality industry's VAT rate, which rose from 9% to 13.5% on January 1.

ASAP Directory raises standards

The association for serviced apartment providers has launched an official directory, as it bids to showcase Quality Accredited serviced apartments – helping to improve the standard of delivery for guests.

The Association of Serviced Apartment Providers (ASAP) has launched the directory in an endeavour to create transparency around quality accredited serviced apartments, as it leads the way in ensuring that standards within the industry are met.

In order to be added to the directory, serviced apartment providers must demonstrate that they are delivering a consistently high standard of customer care, comfort and health and safety – with guests confident that booking via one of the listed operators will guarantee not just certain standards, but also peace of mind.

Liberties Distillery Opens

The Dublin Liberties Distillery opened its new €10m whiskey distillery and visitor experience on Old Mill Street in Dublin’s Liberties. After two years of construction, An Tánaiste

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- Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade, Simon Coveney T.D., officially opened the new distillery, by closing the still door and commencing spirit production. More than 20 new jobs have been created at the new distillery and visitor experience.

Production of the Dublin Liberties Distillery’s whiskey portfolio – which includes award-winning brands, The Dubliner and The Dublin Liberties – has now commenced at the distillery under the supervision of Master Distiller, Darryl McNally (pictured). The range of products icurrently sell in more than 30 countries with sales in excess of 37,000 cases (9L) in 2018.

The new distillery site hass a cocktail bar and a visitor experience, providing an addition to Dublin’s increasingly vibrant whiskey tourism scene, which saw over one million visitors to Irish distilleries and whiskey experiences in 2018. The visitor experience will open to the public on Monday 25th February.

KFC owners in Centre dispute

A legal di sputehas broken out between the owners of the Omni Park shopping centre in Dublin, which includes the McKeon family of builders and private clients of stockbroker Goodbody, and an Irish Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise owned by Raju and Sundeep Tuli, Scottish investors who have extensive Irish interests.

The dispute concerns the decision by the Tuli brothers, who also own major Costa Coffee and Pizza Hut franchises in Ireland, to shut down the KFC restaurant at the Omni centre last year. The Santry-based Omni’s owners have instigated a High Court action as part of a financial dispute over the move.