All Pret A Manger articles – Page 26
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NewsPret launches Christmas campaign
Pret has launched its festive campaign and menu including Christmas Lunch and Veggie Lunch sandwiches
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OpinionWho is winning the battle for consumer loyalty?
Consumers taking part in this month’s M&C Allegra Foodservice’s research programme, the Eating Out Panel, have rated Côte top for both quality and freshness. The results also show pubs and fast food operators challenging the restaurant sector in a number of areas. M&C director of insight, Steve Gotham, explains what the responses can tell us about the eating out market.
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Analysis & Insight
Property biggest concern for food entrepreneurs
Property availability is the biggest challenge food entrepreneurs are facing, coupled with the cost of acquiring new sites
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NewsPret makes French airport debut
Pret A Manger, the Bridgepoint-backed chain, has opened its first French airport shop and first in France outside Paris
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Pret and WSH in top 10 growth companies
Pret A Manger has been named as one of the country’s fastest growing mid-market private companies.
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NewsCoffee shop numbers up 17%
Coffee shops have opened at a greater pace than other retail or leisure outlets over the past five years with a 17% net increase in their number since 2010
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Analysis & Insight
Piper finds gaps in the food to go market
Diners in Manchester are looking for greater choice in their lunchtime food to go options and people both there and in London are keen to see greater choice of healthy meals
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NewsItsu secures new £40m funding package
Itsu has secured a refinancing package from HSBC worth £40m to fund its “ambitious international expansion plans”
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Abokado sees uplift in breakfast sales
Abokado has said that breakfast sales now account for more than 10% of total sales
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NewsEAT eyes new concepts and international growth
EAT is set to explore new concepts and partnerships, both nationally and internationally, after making a key new appointment
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CDG to launch grab-and-go Café Rouge format
CDG, the Steve Richards-led company, is to launch a grab-and-go version of its Café Rouge brand called Rapide.
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 12-13 September
Top story Yo! Sushi heads for cut-price Mayfair deal A recently launched investment firm has become the new frontrunner to buy Yo! Sushi in a cut-price deal worth less than £100m. Mayfair Equity Partners has replaced Inflexion as the most likely buyer of the UK’s biggest Japanese restaurant group. Sources ...
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Analysis & InsightSector brands make top 100 customer experience list
A number of leading sector operators have been included in this year’s best brands for customer experience list collated by KPMG Nunwood
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Preto eyes further growth, launches new concept
Rodizio Preto, the London-based Brazilian steakhouse operator, has lined up two regional sites as it looks to become a nationwide brand
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Operators call for government to take lead on litter
Operators, including Pret a Manger, have signed an open letter to the Government urging it to take a firm lead on UK litter
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NewsBorel suggests staggered reduction in VAT
The VAT Club’s Jacques Borel has put forward a plan to the Government for a staggered reduction in the level of the tax for hospitality businesses.
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Analysis & InsightThe lunch crunch
We would appear to be set for a wave of lunchtime sector M&A. However, there are a number of reasons why any M&A glut may be a little less frenzied than was the case with the restaurant sector, argues Sam Fuller of Altium Capital
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Analysis & InsightFood to go market to be worth £7.8bn
The food-to-go mission value to the UK’s convenience store sector is set to be grow from £4.8bn this year to £7.8bn by 2020
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Analysis & InsightFocused on being simply the best
Forty one years on from managing Whitbread’s Bull Inn in the village of Barming, near Maidstone, Kent, Ian Payne, the chairman of Stonegate Pub Company, is still as enthusiastic about the pub sector as he ever has been
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Vital Ingredient launches loyalty card
Vital Ingredient has launched its first loyalty card called Club Vital