All Vintage Inns articles – Page 2
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Analysis & InsightCustomer service stars of 2016
MCA director of insight, Steve Gotham, looks at which operators topped the league tables for friendly and speedy service during 2016 and what lessons we can learn from their success.
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Analysis & InsightScores on the doors
The latest data from MCA’s comprehensive Eating Out Panel has revealed a strong showing for pub companies, outperforming their restaurant counterparts in terms of net promoter scores throughout the day. MCA’s director of insight, Steve Gotham, looks at some of the reasons the Great British pub is still resonating so strongly with consumers.
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Analysis & InsightOnly 18% of top brands vary prices across country
There are significant opportunities for the sector to use regional price differentiation as a way of offsetting rising costs, research by MCA has shown.
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News
Vintage Inns new menu rollout 50% complete
Mitchells & Butlers is over half way through its roll-out of the stone-baked pizza offer across its Vintage Inns estate.
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NewsBrakspear appoints director of retail
Pub operator and brewer Brakspear has appointed Paul Gilchrist as director of retail for its managed pubs division.
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Analysis & InsightBrits increasingly eating breakfast out of home
New figures from Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) show sales of breakfasts eaten out in the UK have grown significantly in the last 12 months alone
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Analysis & InsightJDW top pub brand for consumer awareness
JD Wetherspoon is leading the pub market in terms of consumer awareness, consideration and usage, according to M&C Allegra Foodservice’s Q1 2015 Pub Brand Monitor.
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NewsStonegate appoints M&B’s Andrews as joint MD
Managed pub operator Stonegate has announced that Nick Andrews, currently brand operations director at Mitchells & Butlers, will join the company as managing director of its Traditional Pubs business.
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Analysis & InsightByron and Browns named most satisfying brands
Byron and Browns have been named the most satisfying eating-out brands and Five Guys the best quality in CGA Peach’s BrandTrack survey.
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NewsRedwood swaps GK for M&B
Tom Redwood has stepped down as operations director at Greene King to become retail director of the Heartland division at M&B
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Analysis & InsightPub value brands capturing ‘hard pressed family’ vote
Spirit’s Flaming Grill and Fayre & Square concepts, plus Greene King’s Hungry Horse and Whitbread’s Brewer’s Fayre, all feature in the top 10 brands that are most exposed to the capturing custom from “hard pressed families
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News
Vintage Inns launches weather-related offer
Vintage Inns, the Mitchells & Butlers-owned brand, has launched a new offer to match the unpredictability of the British weather
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NewsM&B makes key Orchid appointments
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has made two internal appointments to oversee the integration of the 173 former Orchid Pub Company into its estate, M&C Report has learnt
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NewsM&B completes £266m Orchid acquisition
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has announced that it has acquired the majority of Orchid’s estate, consiting of 173 sites, in addition to Orchid’s head office, for £266m
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Vintage Inns focuses on pie appeal
Ahead of British Pie Week starting on Monday, Vintage Inns has released the results of a survey showing it sells 1.6 million pies across its 200 sites each year
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NewsM&B makes executive changes
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has announced a number of changes to its executive team after four senior resignations, of which two are understood to be joining Tesco and one Caffe Nero
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OpinionTaking M&B back to the top of its game
A year into his role as chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, AlistairDarby has got under the skin of the UK’s largest managed eating and drinking-out operator and started to lay the foundations to put it back to its position as the leader of the sector’s pack
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News
Fuller’s adds ‘Steel’ to M&B pubs
Fuller’s has announced the launch of a new limited edition blonde ale, ‘Steel’, made in collaboration with Steel City Brewing
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Opinion
A surprise and a space race
After a long interview process, which allowed him to get to know Mitchells & Butlers’ (M&B) people, and business fundamentals, and also hear a candid assessment from the board on what they thought needed to be done to transform the company, Alistair Darby admits that there was only one surprise awaiting him when he took up his new role as chief executive last October
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NewsAnalyst corner
Jamie Rollo at Morgan Stanley looks at the upcoming full-year results from Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) (26 November) and says he expects solid current trading, following a disappointing Q4