All Opinion articles – Page 69
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Opinion
A franchise future
Paul Charity looks at how franchise-style agreements could help revive fortunes in the tenanted pub sector.Franchising is a development long overdue in the tenanted pub world. Here’s a universe of 20,000-plus pubs hugely reliant on a fairly narrow type of retail content - selling beer. Until the smoking ban of ...
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US eating-out sector continues to amaze
Inside Track by Paul CharityA few things struck me about the American eating-out industry when I ventured across to the National Restaurant Association’s annual Chicago jamboree a fortnight ago. First of all, there’s the sheer scale of it. There’s 40 companies with system sales in excess of a billion dollars ...
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Opinion
High street heroes
Mark Wingett looks at how pubs and restaurants could be the saviours of the declining British high streetEating and drinking out operators your country needs you. Sorry that was a bit dramatic. Let me put it another way. Your high street needs you.The British high street is in decline, some ...
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Evolving the pub offer
Inside Track by Paul CharityHeavy of heart, we set off one Sunday morning last summer to complete a task every adult is likely to asked to perform at some stage - a trip with “junior” to Alton Towers. A bitter pill like this has to have some sugar applied. And ...
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Plugging the information gap at Punch and Enterprise
Inside Track by Paul CharityThe share prices of the two major tenanted operators have been stuck in the doldrums for at least two years. The problems that have beset Punch and Enterprise are not directly comparable, but certainly similar - high levels of debt, declining profits, large amounts of tenant ...