All Subway articles – Page 22
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Starbucks UK acquires “drive-to” site
Starbucks Coffee Company UK has fortified its roadside presence, acquiring a Little Chef site to convert to its third “drive-to” outlet.The acquisition of the property, which is in Chiswell Green, St Albans, comes a day after the group unveiled its first drive-through outlet in the UK, in Cardiff.The group, led ...
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McDonald’s rated bottom by UK consumers
McDonald’s has the worst standing with UK consumers of all high street food and drink operators, according to the latest Populus poll for The Times. The burger chain was rated bottom in the overall impression poll just below Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), as consumers said they preferred ...
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Weekend Press
Wosskow bounces back at OTRG
Former Little Chef owner Lawrence Wosskow, who sold the Out of Town Restaurant Group for £25m five years ago, has bought it back from administration for a sum believed to be less than £5m.As well as the brands he created like Potato Bakehouse and Bitz & Pizza, Wosskow is also ...
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Greggs the UK's biggest takeaway chain
Greggs dwarfs its rivals on the high street, both in the takeaway and fast food sectors, according to M&C Report’s sister publication British Baker’s inaugural league table, the Top 50 Bakery Retailers 2007.The magazine’s research shows that Greggs has more than five times as many shops as its nearest bakery ...
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Sandwich chains taking bigger bite of market share
Sandwich bars and coffee shops are gradually eating into supermarkets’ share of the sandwich market, according to a sandwich industry report published by the British Sandwich Association (BSA).The research found that while supermarkets continue to dominate the sandwich market with a 24.5% share, sales from branded sandwich shops and coffee ...
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Opinion
Brits still wary of foreign expeditions
UK companies are the unquestioned leaders in the European chain restaurant market. There are now more British-based operators to be found among Europe’s 100 biggest foodservice groups than even those with American heritage.According to new research produced by the influential Foodservice Europe magazine, and unveiled last week at the European ...
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Subway heads European growth brands
Subway is the fastest growing eating-out brand in Europe in percentage terms, having grown its sales by euros 340m, or 65%, in the last 12 months.The company aims to have 5,000 locations open by 2010 between Ireland and Russia, with the majority of that expansion focused on the UK, Germany ...
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Subway outsold by Taco Bell in multi-unit franchise stakes
Taco Bell has topped a countdown of the most popular brands for multi-unit franchisees. In monthly publication Restaurant Finance Monitor’s Monitor 200 rankings, the Mexican QSR concept, along with Burger King and neighbourhood grill Applebee’s came out ahead of Subway in the growing multiple unit operations market. The rankings are ...