All Opinion articles – Page 48
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OpinionRestaurants find the Tweet spot
In the first of a new monthly content series, M&C Report takes a look at the social media activities of the leading pub, restaurant and food-to-go brands. James Hacon starts with Twitter, and the three brands making the biggest hashtag splash
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OpinionDigging Gold in the Far East
As UK-based restaurant operators look to grow their overseas footprints, Graham Campbell, head of restaurants at Fleurets, argues that while the UK market has probably not yet reached saturation, it’s becoming increasingly mature and the scope for major growth is limited. He argues: “It is a problem that more and more will need to confront and address if they are to continue to drive profit for their predominantly private equity owners.”
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The food delivery revolution
Co-founder of high-quality food delivery firm Deliveroo, William Shu, talks to M&C Report editor Mark Wingett about why London residents need a speedy service that offers great meals to their door
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OpinionI’ll have five on it
It’s little more than a year since it arrived in the UK, but US burger phenomenon Five Guys is on the cusp of becoming a national player. Mark Wingett talks to UK managing director John Eckbert and director of operations Marcel Khan about the past year, expansion plans and the paradox at the heart of its success
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OpinionRisking it regionally
The race for operators to spread out of London and the south-east is well and truly on. Does that run the risk of regional property bubbles being formed during the next 12 to 18 months?
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OpinionProper food that’s going places
Chop’d was founded in 2004 on the principles of offering busy people the choice of healthy food on the go. Ten years and nine stores later, Ruth Williams finds co-founder and chief executive Eddie Holmes is preparing to roll-out three formats of the store that embody those principles
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OpinionThe enlightened restaurateur
Simon Mullins is not only passionate about food and drink, he also has a passion for the people who work for him. The Salt Yard Group boss opens up to Mel Flaherty
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OpinionMartin hits out at corporate governance
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has criticised bad paractice in corporate governance in an article alongside the company’s full-year results announcement -
OpinionTipping point on pay
When New York’s restaurant staff took to the streets two years ago they were voiceless workers hoping to get heard. Now they have grown into a movement at a tipping point that will have a profound impact on the hospitality industry and its workers
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OpinionAnalyse this: your shopping data
Retailers compile a lot of information from customers’ purchases. James England looks at how these statistics can add up to greater profits
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OpinionFyne dining
Liz Williams, the woman at the helm of the UK’s biggest seafood restaurant group Loch Fyne, talks discounting, the competition and chasing the grey pound
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OpinionBrewDog bites wrong target
BrewDog is once again courting controversy, this time attacking what it calls the “insidious culture around lager drinking” as it releases its own Pilsner called This. Is. Lager. Draft House founder Charlie McVeigh says he admires the Scottish company but is not impressed with its broad sideswipe against lager
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OpinionChange for the better?
Changes at the top of a business always throw up new questions and the recent moves at Novus, Las Iguanas and The Restaurant Group are no different. We also look at the move this morning by KFC that has seen it “bring on-trend street food to the high street” and why the street food sector should be far from outraged by the move
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OpinionWhat’s a McJob actually worth?
The McGloves are off in the battle over who has most say in the wages of those who work for franchisees in McDonald’s restaurants. Dominic Rushe reports
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OpinionAre craft beer shops the new-wave offie?
Can the booming interest in craft beer generate enough business to create a new off-licence sector?
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OpinionThe original punk brewer
From founding Firkin pubs to selling Capital Pub Company for £93m and helping Americans fall in love with craft beer, David Bruce has been there and done it. But with several exciting new ventures bubbling away, Bruce’s enthusiasm is as strong as ever – while the craft revival has given him a spring in his step
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The restaurant fashion victims
A trip down nostalgia lane beckons for Stephen Evans, development director at Gourmet Burger Kitchen, who looks at the restaurants he visited as a child, remembers how much of a treat they were, and questions why they have been usurped by new national brands
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OpinionMy experience as undercover boss
Carluccio’s chief executive Simon Kossoff talks about his experience on last night’s Channel 4 programme Undercover Boss
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OpinionPubs are key - I plan to protect them
Community Pubs Minister Kris Hopkins says he’s excited by his new role, and promises to be the pub industry’s champion ”across Whitehall and beyond”
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OpinionThe ‘whole population’ approach to alcohol statistics
In the following extract from his new book Culture Wars and Moral Panic, author Paul Chase, a director of CPL Training and commentator on licensing law and alcohol policy, explores the government’s use of alcohol statistics in developing policy