All Greggs articles – Page 19
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News
Consumers demand eco-friendly packaging
The majority of UK consumers (85%) want hot beverage outlets to use compostable takeaway cups and 57% of them would be willing to pay 2% more for their drinks to be served in them
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Analysis & Insight
Survey reveals demand for healthier sandwiches
Consumers want a greater variety sandwiches that do not include meat, cheese or fish as more people opt for healthier lifestyles, a survey has revealed
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Analysis & InsightFood-to-go sector heats up
When M&C Allegra Foodservice recently held its Food Strategy Forum Quarterly Debrief , with a specific focus on the food to go market, the key headlines were around a mixed bag of trading for the total foodservice/eating out market, but that food to go was outpacing other sectors, executive director Simon Stenning
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NewsGreggs lfl up 5.9%, completes capital structure review
Greggs has this morning reported a 5.9% increase in like-for-like sales in the 16 weeks to 25 April
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News
Spar launches new foodservice concept
Spar, one of the UK’s leading convenience store operators, is trialling a new foodservice concept, Daily Deli
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 28-29 March
Restaurants, fast food and takeaways Domino’s tech-loving boss likes humble pie with his pizzas Patrick Doyle did not pull any punches. “It sickens me,” he told the hundreds of thousands of viewers who watched his online apology. It was just after Easter 2009 and as the boss of Domino’s in ...
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NewsConsumers rate favourite coffee shops, pubs and fast-casual brands
Greggs and Pret a Manger have topped a consumer poll for providing the best customer experience for coffee shops, with Toby Carvery being named favourite in the pub restaurant space
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News
Coffee brands mobile apps need greater promotion
Coffee shop brands that have created a mobile app are failing to market the service to the majority (60%) of people as the respondents of a recent survey show that that number of people are unaware whether or not companies offered an app
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News
Greggs grows lfl sales 4.5% for FY14
Greggs saw like-for-like sales in its own shops rise 4.5% for the year to 3 January 2015, compared to a 0.8% decline in 2013, and increase 6.3% for the eight weeks to 28 February.
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Analysis & Insight
Worst-case scenario guidebook
When an unbranded pub-restaurant was at the centre of a food-poisoning outbreak in which 30 customers were taken ill, and one sadly died, the words “there but” and “for the grace of God” would have been front of mind for many pub and restaurant group CEOs, says Mark Stretton.
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Analysis & InsightByron and Browns named most satisfying brands
Byron and Browns have been named the most satisfying eating-out brands and Five Guys the best quality in CGA Peach’s BrandTrack survey.
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OpinionUnderground movement
Greg Madigan, head of Subway UK & Ireland, talks expansion, healthy options, store evolution and hospitals with Mark Wingett.
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NewsMcDonald's outperforms on animal welfare
McDonald’s has been rated the highest in a benchmarking of global restaurant brands for implementing farm animal welfare practices in its policies, while M&B, Burger King, SSP and Whitbread are among the worst
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NewsGreggs on track for record profits
Greggs, the Roger Whiteside-led bakery chain, is on track to post record profits for 2014 following a year of consolidation that saw it begin a refurbishment programme
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NewsGreggs to return to the expansion trail
Greggs, the Roger Whiteside-led bakery chain, is to return to the expansion trail and has again set itself a target of 2,000 sites
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Diary
Diary: PizzaExpress, La Tasca, BII, Columbo Group
In this week’s Diary we report on a worrying decline in customer satisfaction, La Tasca taking further digital steps, Neil Morrissey prepares another pub venture and fashion tips with the BII
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NewsGreggs lfls up 4.5% in 2014
High-street bakery chain Greggs has seen like for like sales growth of 4.5% - in its own shops – in 2014 and total sales up by 5.5% for the year ending 3 January 2015
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News
Operators sign up for Wirral scheme
Nando’s and Harvester are amongst the operators to have signed up to open at Croft Retail and Leisure Park in Bromborough on the Wirral
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NewsGreggs lfl sales up 5.2% in last quarter
Greggs, the bakery chain, has reported own shop like-for-like sales up 5.2% with 4.2% growth for the year to date.
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OpinionAt your convenience
The UK’s eating out market is in a state of flux. Everybody wants to be part of it, most want to be fast casual. Every piece of research tells us that consumers increasingly want speed of transaction and instant gratification. Who better to meet that need than your new rival, the local convenience store or should that be c-restaurant?