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NewsPalamon partners back sausage restaurant
Palamon Capital Partners’ Alexandre Rahmatollahi and Pilippe Arbour are backing the launch of a new sausage-specialist restaurant concept, MCA understands.
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NewsLandesberg and Waney back Marylebone restaurant and bakery
Former Admiral Taverns owner Gary Landesberg and The Arts Club co-founder Jai Waney are backing a new all-day dining concept A.O.K Kitchen & Bakery, MCA understands.
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Opinion
The pirates of pizza
As one of the newest players in the burgeoning pizza sector, Radio Alice is out to get Londoners on its wavelength. Stefan Chomka, editor of MCA’s sister title, Restaurant Magazine, meets the founders, Matteo and Salvatore Aloe, and managing director, Emma King, to discuss tapping into the UK casual dining scene and the partnership with the Azzurri Group.
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NewsGiggling Squid poised to take on former CAU site in Leamington Spa
Giggling Squid has been granted a premise license for the former CAU site in Leamington Spa.
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OpinionPizza pioneer
The inventor of the UK’s casual dining industry, an inspiration to a generation of restaurant entrepreneurs and the founder of what today is the country’s biggest restaurant brand, PizzaExpress, Peter Boizot, who sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 89, can lay claim to all of those descriptions and more. Here was a life, truly well lived, and one that shaped the industry as we know it, arguably more than most. Mark Wingett talks to those he inspired and worked with, including Ian Neill, Luke Johnson, Hugh Osmond and Harvey Smyth.
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NewsPizzaExpress founder Boizot dies aged 89
PizzaExpress has paid tribute to its founder, Peter Boizot, who has died aged 89, saying he “launched a culinary revolution”.
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NewsHonest to open in Brighton
Honest Burgers, the Active Partners-backed chain, has further strengthened its 2019 pipeline, after securing a site in Brighton, MCA has learnt. The 30-strong group has secured the site in the city’s South Lanes, which is currently occupied by the Pascere restaurant. The owners of Pascere announced earlier this week that ...
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NewsCapdesia amongst Wasabi bidders
London-based private equity firm Capdesia, which was founded last year by Christopher Unrath and Niels Lorijn, formerly of US private debt firm CapitalSpring, is one of the remaining bidders to acquire a stake in Wasabi, the sushi and bento chain.
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NewsCore named OpenTable UK number one
Core by Clare Smyth has been named OpenTable users as the UK’s number one restaurant.
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NewsDoubts raised over future of Freshii in London
Doubts have been raised about the short-term future of Freshii, the health-focus, fast-casual chain, in London, after the departure of its chief executive and the closure of both its sites in the capital. The company, which operates c300 sites internationally, opened its first site in the capital in January at ...
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NewsHonest Burgers scoops R200 Best Restaurant Operator award
Restaurant groups including Nando’s, Mowgli, Honest Burgers and Tortilla were among the winners at Restaurant magazine’s R200 Awards, held last night (3 December) at Hawker House.
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NewsRestaurant Sat Bains ranked world's fourth best
Restaurant Sat Bains has been ranked the fourth best in the world in TripAdvisor’s 2018 Travellers’ Choice awards.
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NewsWeak pound could attract more Chinese operators to UK
The weak pound could encourage more Chinese restaurant brands to open in the UK, following the example of Din Tai Fung and Haidilao, Fleurets director Richard Thomas has told MCA.
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NewsTahir Group acquires another seven KFC sites
Property developer and serial franchisee The Tahir Group has acquired a further seven KFC restaurants in London in a multi-million pound deal.
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NewsPho lfls up 5.5%
Pho, the Vietnamese restaurant group led by Stephen and Juliette Wall, saw like-for-like sales increase 5.5% in the eight months to the end of October 2018, on the back of a year when it broke through the £30m-turnover mark, MCA understands. The 27-strong company, which is backed by Livingbridge, saw ...
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NewsBig Easy gives staff flexible access to wages
Big Easy is to allow staff to access wages as they earn throughout December.
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NewsJasper Gorst lines up fourth restaurant
Restauranteur Jasper Gorst is to open his fourth restaurant, in Battersea, in January next year, called The Oak SW11.
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NewsCope steps down as Byron CEO
Simon Cope has stepped down as chief executive of Byron, the Three Hills Capital Partners-backed burger chain, MCA has learnt.
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NewsTamatanga to open third site, at Highcross; plans for more
Indian casual dining restaurant Tamatanga is to open a third site in Leicester’s Highcross shopping centre, and has plans to expand outside the Midlands, MCA has learnt.
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NewsPE firms circle Wasabi
A handful of private equity firms are in the running to acquire a stake in Wasabi, the sushi and bento chain.