All Las Iguanas articles – Page 14
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Opinion
Challenging intolerance
While translating new EU allergen rules into practical action is demanding, the FSA’s advice can benefit profits as well as customers, says James England of Fourth
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News
Las Iguanas recognised in Investors in People awards
Las Iguanas, the Latin American restaurant group, has been awarded the Investors in People (IiP) Award 2014 for Excellence in Reward & Recognition. It was the only restaurant group to be recognised in the 2014 awards
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News
Operators confirmed for Chester dining quarter
Chimichanga, Coast to Coast, Las Iguanas and The Restaurant Bar and Grill have been confirmed as the four operators who will open at the new dining quarter in Chester
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Analysis & InsightLoch Fyne tops customer satisfaction poll
Loch Fyne, the Greene King-owned brand, is delivering the highest levels of customer satisfaction in the UK’s eating out sector, according to the latest findings from CGA Peach’s BrandTrack
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News
Las Iguanas gains Vegetarian Society accreditation
Las Iguanas, the Latin casual dining concept backed by the Bowmark Capital group, claims to be the first casual dining restaurant group to gain Vegetarian Society accreditation
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NewsSuitors eye Strada rump
Suitors bidding for the 56-strong Strada brand, which was put up for sale by Tragus last week, are set to bid on the rump of the group’s estate, with up to 15 individual site sales expected to go through over the next few weeks, M&C Report understands
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News
Greene King awards facilities management contract
Greene King has awarded a facilities management contract to Selwyn Building Services (SBS), which is taking on an additional 35 staff to service the deal
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NewsLas Iguanas secures Leamington Spa site
Las Iguanas, the Bowmark Capital-backed chain, which is assessing its options, has secured a site in Leamington Spa, for an opening later this year
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News
Las Iguanas adds Casa bar to Bath site
Las Iguanas, the Bowmark Capital-backed group, is to open a one-off cachaça and cocktail bar called Casa Iguanas tomorrow below its Monmouth Street site in Bath
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NewsHill steps down as Las Iguanas CEO
Steve Hill has stepped down as chief executive of Latin American restaurant group Las Iguanas with immediate effect just three months after taking on the role. The group has begun the process of finding a successor and, during the intervening period, founder director Eren Ali will resume chief executive responsibilities
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OpinionThe IPO trailblazer
Six months ago, Eclectic Bar Group became the first pub, bar or restaurant operator to float on the stock market since Capital Pub Company in 2007. John Harrington gets the inside track from chief executive Reuben Harley and chief financial officer John Smith
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Diary
Diary: Harry Ramsden’s, Drake & Morgan, St Austell
This week’s Diary includes Bowmark weighing up options for the Drake & Morgan chairman role, Harry Ramsden’s on the up, Caring eyeing Bam-Bou number two, and St Austell’s coffee move. Feeling more chipper It seems that the turnaround of Harry Ramsden’s, the iconic fish & chip shop group, ...
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Opinion
Keeping track of the flyers
This year’s Zolfo Cooper Profit Tracker highlights the fact that those high-quality operators that made the right calls during the downturn are perfectly placed to reap the benefits in any upturn in the general economy, writes Mark Wingett
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OpinionQuay destination
In a first of a new series of city focuses, M&C Report puts the spotlight on Bristol. It talks to local operators, some of whom have become national players, looks at others who are looking to take that step, and assesses the latest research on the area and upcoming projects
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NewsLas Iguanas lines up Edinburgh opening
Las Iguanas, the Bowmark Capital-backed chain, which is assessing its options, is set to open its third site in Scotland, and its first in Edinburgh
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Analysis & InsightAmerica’s there for the taking
Known as the ‘godfather of casual dining’, Ian Neill turned Japanese noodle chain Wagamama into a global business worth more than £200m. Here in a piece from Piper Private Equity’s ‘Going Global: 30 Years 30 Insights’, he reveals in full how a crucial lesson was learned in an unlikely location
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News
Grillstock begins rollout
Grillstock, the fledgling barbecue concept, has secured its second site in the South West, in Bath
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Analysis & InsightMexican food grows and evolves on UK menus
Burritos and enchiladas were the fastest rising items on menus at UK restaurants and pubs in the fourth quarter of 2014, as Mexican food evolves into barbecue-inspired and other fusion formats, new research from Technomic shows
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OpinionHill start at Las Iguanas
Steve Hill, the new chief executive at Las Iguanas, talks to Mark Wingett about how a meeting over a curry got him the only job he “would return to the sector for” and describes the challenge he faces in not “mucking up” an exceptional business
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News
Ex-Wagamama property director launches consultancy business
Sharon Cawthorne, the former property director at Wagamama, has launched a specialist restaurant consultancy business called Blue Lemon Property