All Azzurri Group articles – Page 8

  • Coco Di Mama
    News

    Founders step down at Coco di Mama

    2017-06-06T09:40:00Z

    Daniel Land and Jeremy Sanders are to leave Coco di Mama, the quick-service Italian concept, which they founded in 2011

  • News

    Coco di Mama strengthens City presence

    2017-06-01T08:23:46.627Z

    Coco di Mama has further strengthened its presence in the City with an opening adjacent to Leadenhall Market

  • News

    ASK secures prime Leeds site

    2017-05-31T08:23:00Z

    ASK Italian is to further strengthen its presence in major UK cities, with an opening in Leeds

  • News

    Zizzi launches click-and-collect ordering

    2017-05-25T08:31:09.350Z

    Zizzi has partnered with online ordering platform Orderswift to launch click-and-collect ordering across its 145-site estate

  • Opinion

    Bolt-ons key to next phase of M&A

    2017-05-11T08:19:43.660Z

    Altium’s Sam Fuller explains why a slowdown in M&A was always going to be a possibility in the casual-dining market, and shows where the light at the end of the tunnel can be found

  • News

    Radio Alice to double up

    2017-05-03T08:33:00Z

    Radio Alice, the fast-casual pizza concept, is to open its second restaurant after securing a site in Clapham

  • News

    Fawcett role at Azzurri expanded

    2017-04-21T16:04:50.030Z

    Johanna Fawcett has seen her role at the Azzurri Group, the operator of ASK and Zizzi, expanded

  • News

    Dalton appointed ops director at ASK

    2017-03-10T16:14:46.313Z

    ASK Italian, the Azzurri Group-owned chain, has promoted Jan Dalton to the role of operations director

  • ALMR letter on business rates
    News

    Government must act quickly over rates concerns

    2017-02-22T08:16:00Z

    The government must act quickly if it is to mitigate against the crippling rises facing the restaurant and pub sector, ALMR chief executive Kate Nicholls has warned.

  • News

    Azzurri completes refinancing

    2017-02-10T16:49:00Z

    Azzurri Group, the operator of ASK Italian and Zizzi, has completed a refinancing that has seen a “significant upsizing of its senior debt facilities”

  • News

    Coco di Mama links up with Theo Randall

    2017-02-01T08:28:46.717Z

    Coco di Mama is launching a new special range of seasonal pasta sauces on 1 March, created with chef Theo Randall

  • News

    Coco Di Mama secures Westminster site

    2017-01-27T16:15:00Z

    Coco di Mama, the Azzurri Group-owned, quick-service Italian concept, has secured its first site in Westminster

  • News

    Eagle Eye joins Flypay’s Flyt platform

    2017-01-27T08:23:00Z

    Flypay has added Eagle Eye to the growing number of partners integrating with its Flyt platform

  • Simon Longbottom
    News

    Operator predictions for 2017

    2016-12-23T13:55:00Z

    MCA talks to leading operators across the sector about their predictions for 2017, including challenges, opportunities and the concepts to watch over the next 12 months.

  • Analysis & Insight

    2016: A year of disruptions

    2016-12-05T07:55:00Z

    MCA’s Peter Linden looks backs on a year of disruption in the eating out sector and ahead to prospects for the sector in 2017.

  • News

    Hickory’s to rebrand ahead of growth to 12

    2016-12-02T08:30:00Z

    Hickory’s, the smokehouse and barbecue concept, is to launch a new look at its largest site to date, as it targets growth to a 12-strong estate by 2019.

  • News

    Growth Index nominations open

    2016-12-01T08:38:00Z

    MCA is once again teaming up with leading advisory firm AlixPartners to identify the top 50 private firms with the fastest-growing profits in the UK eating and drinking-out sector.

  • News

    ASK Italian to launch click & collect

    2016-11-08T08:36:31.290Z

    ASK Italian has partnered with online ordering specialists Orderswift to roll out a new click and collect service

  • Zizzi exterior
    News

    Azzurri sees FY sales grow 5%

    2016-11-07T06:41:00Z

    MCA talks to Azzurri Group chief executive Steve Holmes, as the group publishes its results for the year to 26 June.

  • Villagio from Richoux
    Opinion

    Perfect pitch

    2016-10-17T08:02:00Z

    As we move into the final quarter of the year, there is a sense that operators across the sector are having to reassess the levels they have set on their respective “business graphic equalisers” to match the increasing headwinds. The majority are being faced with the questions of do you dial down investment on marketing and expansion whilst fading up funding on recruitment/training and maintenance capex?