All MCA Insight articles in December 2015 – Page 8
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News
Icebar seeks to double up in London
Icebar London is planning to open a second site in London in 2016.
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News
Pizza Hut UK lfls up 6.2% for first nine months
Pizza Hut Restaurants, the Rutland Partners backed group, has reported like-for-like sales up 6.2% for the period from 1 December to 29 November.
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News
Crowley becomes Giraffe MD
Tom Crowley has been promoted from operations director to managing director of Giraffe, the Tesco-backed restaurant chain, M&C understands.
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Analysis & Insight
BDO: Expect rise in secondary brands
A rise in secondary brands, the end of tips and the increasing popularity of IPO as exit route, are all in the top 10 predictions for 2016 in BDO’s annual end of year Restaurant & Bars Report.
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News
First YO! Sushi Bar to open in Chelmsford
YO! Sushi is to open its first UK Sushi Bar at a site in Chelmsford.
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Opinion
Hard work helps strike it Rich
In a rare interview, Caprice Holdings owner Richard Caring tells Dominic Walsh, from The Times, a little of the background to his restaurant, and hospitality interests and what he plans to do with them
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News
Anand joins board of Morrisons
Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand is to join the board of WM Morrison Supermarkets as a non-executive and senior independent director.
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Analysis & Insight
Dialling up deal activity
2015 was yet another big year for deal activity in the restaurants and bars sector, says Kieran Lawton, M&A director at BDO.
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News
Equistone takes lead on Gaucho
Private equity group Equistone is believed to be in advanced talks to acquire Gaucho
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News
D&D delays IPO plans
D&D London is to delay plans for a London flotation after failing to secure fundraising commitments in time for a pre-Christmas listing
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News
UK spending on cards more than doubles
The use of plastic in pubs and restaurants has helped double spending on cards in the UK in the last decade, reaching over £500bn in 2014
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News
Virtual Jukebox receives new investment
Virtual Jukebox, the interactive music provider to the hospitality, retail and leisure sectors, has completed a fundraising that values the company at £3.34m
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News
Bone Daddies eyes expansion opportunities
Bone Daddies founder Ross Shonhan will have six permanent sites open by mid-2016 and is on the lookout for more, M&C has learned.
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Camerons extends partnership with Longhorns
Camerons Brewery has extended its partnership with Longhorns BBQ Smokehouse, confirming the two will work together at the latest Head of Steam venue in Norton, Teesside.
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Opinion
1847 sets meat-free model
Every market could benefit from more choice and the food sector is no different. Ruth Williams takes a look at 1847 – a vegetarian outfit that has expansion on its mind and a timing that could be spot on.
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News
Johnson: Too early to exit Bread Holdings
Serial sector investor Luke Johnson has told M&C’s sister title The Grocer that he is not planning an exit in Bread Holdings
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News
Punch creates role to implement new concepts
Punch has appointed Andrew Jobes to the newly created role of senior retail development manager, with the task of implementing the company’s new concepts, M&C understands.
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News
Strada becomes official food partner of Dry January
Strada has announced it is to continue to build on its commitment to ‘The Good Life’ by announcing a partnership with Alcohol Concern’s Dry January
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News
Poncho8 founders launch new concept
Frank Yeung and Nick Birkett, the co-founders of burrito chain Poncho8, are to launch a new Taiwanese concept called Mr Bao
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Five minutes with…. Steve Haslam, TLC
M&C spends five minutes with Steve Haslam, managing director of TLC Inns