All O'Neill's articles – Page 6
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NewsRestrictive covenant announcement 'imminent'
The outcome of the consultation on restrictive covenants on pub sales will be published “in the coming weeks”, new community pubs minister Kris Hopkins has claimed
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NewsShamel named Las Iguanas MD
Las Iguanas has announced the promotion of Mos Shamel from operations director to managing director
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Ex-D&M managers to launch bar venture
Two former Drake & Morgan managers are to start a new bar venture with the opening of a “neighbourhood cocktail and snack bar” in Brixton, south London, M&C Report’s sister title the Publican’s Morning Advertiser has learnt
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Analysis & InsightNew world order
Forget the recent influx of US restaurant brands planting their flags on UK soil – the Brits are leading a global invasion all of their own
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O’Neill’s to host music festival
O’Neill’s, Mitchells & Butlers’ Irish pub brand, is to host a weekend of free live music across its 45 pubs from 31 July
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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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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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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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Pure Craft Bars targets growth
Pure Craft Bars, a collaboration between Paul Halsey’s Purity Brewing in Warwickshire and former Michelin-star chef Andreas Antona, is on course to open a bar a year over the next five years after opening its first site
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OpinionChanging of the guard
If the average tenure for a chief executive these days in a quoted business is under five years, and for those in private businesses slightly more, then Simon Kossoff, Russel Joffe, Robin Rowland, Clive Schlee, Harvey Smyth and Andrew Page, with a combined tenure of more than 60 years (an average of 10 years each), are all due for replacement at some point soon. When it happens, who from the next generation will take over?
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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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Details revealed of Blumenthal’s Heathrow launch
Heston Blumenthal’s new ‘nostalgic British restaurant’ will be called The Perfectionists’ Café and will open at Heathrow’s newly redeveloped Terminal 2 in June
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'Not every concept works outside London'
Not every successful casual dining concept in London will translate well to other major UK cities, Living Ventures chief executive Tim Bacon has warned
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NewsRowland: talk to young about technology
Restaurant and pub operators need to talk to young people to find out how they use technology and then incorporate it into their business, according to YO! Sushi chief executive Robin Rowland
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NewsMarston’s sold pubs to minimise regulatory risk
Marston’s disposed of more than 200 pubs to a property investor in November in part to reduce its “exposure to the potential effects of government intervention”, according to chief executive Ralph Findlay
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Ex-minister responds to 'Mugabe' jibe on pubco code
Former pubs minister Bob Neill has responded to accusations made against his support of a statutory code from McMullen managing director Peter Furness-Smith last week
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Furness-Smith attacks ex-minister for pubco code support
McMullen’s managing director Peter Furness-Smith has written to former pubs minsiter Bob Neill criticising his support of the proposed statutory code for pub companies, saying: “Robert Mugabe would be proud of you.”
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NewsFormer pubs minister urges tougher action on pubcos
A former Government minister for pubs has urged Business Secretary Vince Cable to go further under the proposed statutory code of pub companies and give tenants the right to have a free-of-tie option combined with an open market rent review.
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NewsBBPA agrees partnership with Northern Ireland trade body
The British Beer & Pub Association has signed a partnership deal with Pubs of Ulster. The BBPA said the move will enable the organisations to coordinate campaigning and representation work
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NewsIntertain: Eyeing the aspirational space, sales uplifts, digital innovation
M&C Report reports from Intertain’s presentation for suppliers and hears from chief executive John Leslie and chief operating officer Simon Kaye about the evolution of the Walkabout operator and its plans for 2014.