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Last published 17 Oct 2026 — the TableSpark team, London
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September 2026

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FIG. 182 Ordering and payments
Ordering and payments 2026-09-09

The supplier's bank details changed by email. A headcount decides which door you claim through.

Reimbursement covers individuals, microenterprises and charities. On ONS bands two in five licensed restaurants are outside the ten-person limb — excluded from one route, not all.

FIG. 183 Menus and allergens
Menus and allergens 2026-09-09

The free refill is the one promotion rule restaurants are not excluded from

The restaurant exclusion in the promotion rules is real, and it stops one regulation short of the free refill. What decides the risk is a fifty-employee headcount, not the sector.

FIG. 184 Rules and compliance
Rules and compliance 2026-09-09

The food waste disposer under the sink: what a restaurant may send to the sewer, nation by nation

Three nations put the duty on the drain itself; no England food waste rule was located, but discharging without the undertaker's consent is its own exposure.

FIG. 185 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-09

TUPE on a restaurant sale: the staff transfer automatically, and their claims arrive with them

Nobody signs for the staff: they transfer on completion with their service and their claims. The 28-day list, the repealed words printed beside it, and the £500-a-head risk.

FIG. 186 Rules and compliance
Rules and compliance 2026-09-09

The right to work check reaches sub-contractors from 1 October 2026

From 1 October the illegal-working penalty reaches individual sub-contractors and online matching services. Which people in this restaurant are inside the scheme, line by line.

FIG. 187 Rules and compliance
Rules and compliance 2026-09-09

The tribunal window doubles on 1 October, and the date that decides it is not the date the claim arrives

From 1 October 2026 the window for a tribunal dispute with a former member of staff doubles — but only where the 'relevant date' falls on or after that day.

FIG. 188 Rules and compliance
Rules and compliance 2026-09-09

Statutory sick pay from the first qualifying day: what a sick shift now costs a UK restaurant rota

A Saturday-only kitchen porter who calls in sick now costs money, and what it costs turns on a qualifying-days question most small restaurants have never answered in writing.

FIG. 189 Rules and compliance
Rules and compliance 2026-09-09

The table-meal exception cited for bottomless brunch was deleted in 2014

Operators are told a bottomless brunch is safe because it comes with a meal. The exception they cite was removed in 2014, and the page owners land on still shows it.

FIG. 190 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-09

Digital waste tracking from 1 October 2026 in England and Wales: your restaurant is not in the record

Waste tracking goes digital on 1 October 2026 in England and Wales, 1 January 2027 in Scotland. The producer is missing from the record, but not from the risk.

FIG. 191 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-09

The retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier: how to tell whether your restaurant qualifies

A restaurant that had the 40% relief last year can be excluded from the new statutory definition this year, and the bill states the multiplier without the reasoning behind it.

FIG. 192 Building the website
Building the website 2026-09-05

Is “free parking” legally binding? What a restaurant's car park page commits it to

Describing parking as “free” is automatically unfair where the guest ends up paying to park — and the cost of getting it wrong lands on the restaurant, not the car park operator.

FIG. 193 Running the site
Running the site 2026-09-05

A delivery platform suspended the account. The UK deleted Articles 15 to 18, not the duty.

The listing is blocked, the notice names no order and no rule, and three services pass before anyone answers. The duty behind that silence buys damages, not the listing back.

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