The culinary Italian empire grows...

Lots of progress lately on the ever-expanding restaurant franchise Jamie's Italian. Jamie Oliver is enjoying continuing success with the cuisine that first captured his heart, and which brought him to our attention in the mid-1990s. Wanstor tech wizes Joe Alexandroff and Mark Andrews have now set up the restaurant IT in the Milton Keynes and Angel, with another expected to be completed at the end of the month at the new Westfield complex in Stratford.

As Jamie Oliver himself notes, the Westfield branch is "probably our most stunning site to date. With some really unique design features including a wall made up of individual Vespa head lights and a gorgeous area for al fresco dining bordered by planters full of herbs".

Thanks, as ever, to Angus Palmer for the updates