All Jamie Oliver Restaurants articles – Page 4
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News
Arc Inspirations appoints advisors
Arc Inspirations has appointed advisors as it gears up for its next stage of growth, MCA understands.
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Opinion
Lines from a legend
With 50 years’ experience in the UK’s hospitality sector, primarily in the development of multiple successful branded restaurant concepts, Ian Neill was quite rightly honoured earlier this year with the inaugural lifetime achievement award at MCA’s Retailers’ Retailer of the Year Awards in March. The driving force behind the formative years of PizzaExpress and the growth of Wagamama from one site to 110 worldwide, recently sat down with Mark Wingett to discuss the current state of the market, delivery, the pub sector and of course a certain deal.
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Analysis & Insight
Picking out the positives amid the challenges
Good news stories have often been hard to come by in the sector of late but according to MCA’s head of consumer insight, Gareth Nash, there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful when you look closely at the figures behind the recent performance of the eating-out sector
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Leon confirms first Ireland site, to open Q4 2019
Leon has confirmed its first site in Ireland, with an opening in the Dundrum Town Centre in Dublin at the end of 2019.
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Schapira appointed Vapiano global MD
Nick Schapira, the former international business development director for the Jamie Oliver Group, has joined Vapiano as global managing director.
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Morso to launch £400k crowdfund
Morso, the neighbourhood pasta and grappa bar concept, is looking to raise £400,000 on Crowdcube to fund two new openings, MCA has learnt.
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Analysis & Insight
London sees net increase in restaurants despite over-supply concerns
Restaurant closures in the capital have hit a 28-year high, according to new data from restaurant guide Harden’s.
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Benito’s Hat confirms two new openings
Benito’s Hat, the Calculus-backed Mexican chain has confirmed two new openings.
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Jamie's Pizzeria is Deliveroo's 1000th virtual brand
Deliveroo now has 1000 virtual restaurant brands on its platform – a figure it expects to double by mid-2019.
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Analysis & Insight
Interview with an innovator: Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group’s Ed Loftus
The group F&B director talks to MCA’s sister title Food Spark about his hopes that more frequent menu changes, including experimental and regional dishes, will help get more customers through the door, and how he’s trying to drive sales volumes away from beef.
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News
IMM secures £10m to expand Jamie’s Pizzeria in India
IMM, the operator of the Jamie Oliver restaurant chain in India, has secured £10m in its second round of fundraising.
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Arc takes on Jamie’s Italian Newcastle site
Arc Inspirations has taken on the former Jamie’s Italian site in Newcastle, where it will invest £1.5m in the first Banyan Bar & Kitchen in the North East.
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Jamie Oliver Group strengthens senior team
Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group has announced a series of senior appointments.
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Yumpingo signs TGI Fridays as first US customer
Restaurant intelligence platform, Yumpingo, has made its debut in the UK after signing a deal with TGI Fridays.
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News
Middletons to open in former Jamie’s site in Chelmsford
Steak restaurant Middletons is to open its eighth restaurant in the former Jamie’s Italian Trattoria on Chelmsford high street in Essex.
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News
Jamie’s Italian made £29.2m loss in 2017
Jamie Oliver Group has confirmed that Jamie’s Italian Ltd made a £29.2m loss in the year to 31 December 2017.
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Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group targeting 100 sites globally by 2020
The Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group is targeting 100 sites globally, by the end of next year, according to chief executive Jon Knight.
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Analysis & Insight
Italian and Latin cuisines losing market share
Italian and Latin/South American cuisines have both lost share of the UK restaurant market over the past year, according to the latest MCA data.
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Opinion
Proceeding with due care
In a rare interview, sector investor Richard Caring, alongside new Ivy Collection chief executive and Bill’s chairman David Campbell, talks to Mark Wingett about the future of the high street; the impact of the uncertainty over Brexit; the market in general; and the next stages of development for Bill’s and the Ivy Collection
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News
Grind secures Jamie’s Italian Greenwich site
Artisan coffee house, restaurant and bar group Grind is to open its largest ever site, in the former Jamie’s Italian site in Greenwich.