All Café Rouge articles – Page 15
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Analysis & InsightCaution: Cafe-bakeries are hot
Coffee shop and cafe brands are encroaching into restaurant and pub territory in a bid to steal market share. Are they the new face of all-day dining?
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Analysis & InsightPE-backed management deals
Following the early success of concepts such as PizzaExpress, Wagamama and Café Rouge, private equity is becoming increasingly involved in the world of restaurant operators. David Roberts, the head of the leisure team at leading law firm Olswang LLP, looks at the types of incentivised deal being offered to management teams to push concepts forward
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News
Hospitality careers programme secures 3,500 jobs
A programme designed to help jobseekers into work across the hospitality industry has succeeded in finding jobs for more than 3,500 people and saving more than £17.5m of public money
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NewsByron opens at centre:mk
Byron, the premium burger restaurant group, has opened a new 4,500sq ft restaurant at centre:mk
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NewsFY lfls drop 1.6% at Tragus
Tragus, the Café Rouge, Bella Italia and Strada operator, saw like-for-like sale decline by 1.6% in the year to 2 June 2013
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Mayfair Capital secures F&B investment
Mayfair Capital Investment Management has acquired £12m of assets for its Property Income Trust for Charities fund, including three F&B units at the Greenwich Peninsula
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Analysis & InsightAccess all areas
As a debate rages on the meaning of informality in the fine-dining sector, operators further down the cheque-range are looking at ways to grow volumes through making their offers more informal and subsequently more accessible. At the same time, the UK’s managed pub sector has started the year in fine fettle, but what does this mean for one its main players Orchid and backer Deutsche Bank, which is currently reviewing its options for the business
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NewsTragus to undergo debt restructure
Tragus, the Café Rouge, Bella Italia and Strada operator, is understood to be preparing to undergo a debt-for-equity swap under a proposed restructuring of its estimated £240m debt, according to The Times
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Byron secures Clapham Common site
Byron, the Hutton Collins-owned burger chain, has secured a further site in London, after finally completing on a unit near Clapham Common tube station
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NewsByron secures Chiswick site
Byron, the Hutton Collins-owned burger chain, has secured a further site in London, after acquiring the Café Rouge in Chiswick, M&C Report understands
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Restaurant Choice voucher tops £1m
The Restaurant Choice Gift Voucher has marked its first year-end with sales in excess of £1m
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NewsTragus to launch Café Rouge franchise in the UAE
Tragus has announced that it has signed a franchise agreement with Diamond Lifestyle, a Dubai-based hospitality company managed by Al Masah Capital Ltd, to develop restaurants in the UAE under the Cafe Rouge brand
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Tragus to launch Parisienne brasserie at Heathrow
Tragus has announced it is invested £1.2m in opening a new 168-cover restaurant & bar concept, La Salle, at Heathrow’s new Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal, next June
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Tragus replaces Ortega with Hawtons
Tragus, the Blackstone-backed, John Derkach-led group, is to convert one of its two remaining Ortega sites to a new British-focused concept called Hawtons
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Tragus e-voucher system claims award
Tragus, the Bella Italia, Café Rouge and Strada operator, has picked up the award for ‘Retail Security Initiative of the Year’ for its single use voucher system powered by technology from Eagle Eye Solution
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Analysis & InsightUndervalued and unloved
With Wagamama gearing up to open its first site in the US, and only its fourth in total, since it made its debut in the States in 2007, Stefan Chomka asks why haven’t more UK chains broken America?
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Investors target food operators at c£30m auction
Commercial property investors showed a particular appetite for food outlets at the Acuitus October auction, which saw a total of £29.08m of assets being sold
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Tragus to enhance sales anaylsis
Tragus, the operator of Café Rouge, Strada and Bella Italia, is to enhance its sales analysis function
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OpinionExile's over for Graham Turner
Dominic Walsh assesses the return to business of Graham Turner, the new executive chairman of Novus Leisure, and recent statements made by Gondola CEO Harvey Smyth
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OpinionTaking Tragus forward
Mark Wingett talks to Tragus chief executive John Derkach about his first year at the helm of the Café Rouge, Strada and Bella Italia operator. The former Costa Coffee managing director talks about how Bella is primed for growth, Café Rouge is going through a process of reinvigoration and working to make Strada special again, while touching on some wider sector issues