Founders and owners
Independent operators and group founders, from a first site to a growing estate.
Williams, Stanley & Co. presents
WS Hospitality Summit London
A day for 50 founders, operators and decision-makers. Panels, unfiltered operator insight and a long lunch.
The invitation
Not an accountancy day
We are bringing together 50 founders, operators and decision-makers for a day of honest conversation about what it really looks like to run a hospitality business right now.
Numbers will feature, because labour, margins and cashflow are where the pressure shows first. But this is about hospitality as a whole: coming together as an industry, sharing what is working, and finding new ways to navigate the headwinds ahead.
It is a small room on purpose. Small enough that everyone talks, and senior enough that what gets said is useful on Monday morning. I hope you can join us.
Tom and the WS & Co team
The day
How it runs
Full timings and the panel line-up will be shared closer to the day.
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10:00
Doors, coffee and pastries
Arrive, meet the room and settle in before the first session.
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Morning
Straight-talking panels
Operators, partners and the WS team on labour, margins and cashflow, and what is actually moving them.
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Midday
Unfiltered operator insight
People running sites today, saying what they would tell a friend rather than a conference. Time built in to compare notes with peers facing the same decisions.
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Lunch
A long, family-style lunch
With drinks to finish. This is where most of the best conversations happen.
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16:00
Close
Leave with ideas you can use, and the contact details of people who have already solved the problem you are facing.
Who is in the room
Fifty people who make the calls
Operations leaders
Ops directors and area managers who own labour, rotas, suppliers and the guest experience.
Finance leads
FDs and finance managers who have to turn trading into cash, and explain the gap.
Previous summits
Who has joined us
London, March 2026 at Daffodil Mulligan, then Manchester, June 2026 at Maray. Partners and industry voices so far include these. The November line-up will be confirmed closer to the day.
Onezone
The Portman Estate
Only A Pavement Away
The venue
Daffodil Mulligan
An Irish restaurant and bar from the Corrigan Collection, on City Road near Old Street. The same room where the first WS Hospitality Summit took place in March.
Open in Maps- Address
- 70-74 City Road, London EC1Y 2BJ
- Nearest station
- Old Street
- Date
- Thursday 19 November 2026
- Time
- 10am to 4pm
RSVP
Reserve your place
Places are limited to 50. Tell us who is coming and your confirmation arrives straight away.
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