All Operators articles – Page 106
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Liberation realigns estate, Brooks leaves
Liberation chief executive Mark Crowther has told MCA the pub group’s reorganisation into a single managed and tenanted estate will support its acquisitions programme moving forward.
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UberEats: We believe we can change eater behaviour
UberEats expects to launch at a rate of more than one UK town or city a week until the end of the year.
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Star investing £3m in outside areas
Star Pubs & Bars will spend c£3m developing external areas at around 100 of its pubs in 2017 – part of a £20m investment this year across its estate.
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Wolf eyes 21 sites in three years
Wolf Italian Street Food, the four-strong grab and go franchise, is hoping to reach 21 sites within three years, after securing a pop-up site in Broadgate, MCA has learnt.
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Sector lfls up 4.4% in April
The Coffer Peach Business Tracker cohort showed its strongest like-for-like sales growth in more than two years last month.
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Chatime eyes four more this year
Chatime, the bubble tea franchise from Taiwan, is on track with its growth targets after hitting 20 sites in the UK, with plans to open a further three or four this year, MCA has learnt.
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Camino secures Shoreditch site
Camino, the Spanish restaurant and bar group, will look at regional expansion as well as further locations in London after securing its fifth site in Shoreditch.
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McManus considers accommodation at pubs
McManus, the 18-strong Northamptonshire-based group, is looking to add accommodation to its estate as well as will as some major refurbishments of it free houses.
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Sharma-Jones steps down from D&M
Pooja Sharma-Jones has left her role as sales and marketing director at Drake & Morgan, MCA understands.
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McManus FY lfls up 2.5%
McManus Pub Group, the 17-strong Northamptonshire-based operator, saw like-for-like sales grow 2.5% to £11.2m to 30 July 2016.
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Le Bab looking to evolve model for next site
Le Bab, the gourmet kebab restaurant based at Kingly Court, is exploring variations on its concept for its next London site
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Usher eyes 'mature' funding options
Gary Usher, the North West chef-patron behind the Sticky Walnut, Hispi and Burnt Truffle, has told MCA he turned to crowdfunding because banks were unwilling to lend to a fledgling restaurant operator.
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NewsKochhar NRI concept is scalable in UK
Atul Kochhar, the Michelen Star winning chef of Benares, has told MCA that his causal dining concept NRI is scalable and he would like to open more if his debut UK site in Birmingham is a success.
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Burlinson departs POD
Sean Burlinson has left his role as head of food at POD, the healthy fast food and coffee shop operator, MCA has learnt.
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Warning over immigration cap pledge
High street operators will struggle to fill vacancies and businesses will suffer if the government introduces a low cap on immigration, the ALMR has warned.
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Analysis & Insight
Eating and drinking out spend down in Q1
Net spending in restaurants, coffee shops and pubs fell in the first three months of 2017 – though millennials plan to spend more in eating and drinking out, Deloitte research has found.
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Camm & Hooper secures sixth site, eyes further growth
Camm & Hooper is to open its sixth site in the autumn and is eyeing another opening later this year or early 2018.
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Viva mobile payment app to launch
New mobile payment app Viva is launching this summer and offering operators live revenue and sales reports along with a complete overview of customers’ profile. The ordering system aims to reduce the need for queues at the bar or waits for table service. Consumers can also discover new bars in ...
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Le Pain Quotidien now carbon neutral
Le Pain Quotidien, the Belgian restaurant and boulangerie group, has announced all its UK & Ireland restaurants are now carbon neutral, certified by the climate advisory organisation CO2logic.
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BBPA calls for rates reform and beer duty action in manifesto
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has called for action on beer duty and wholesale reform of the business rates system in its manifesto for the brewing and pub industry.