All MCA Insight articles in April 2015 – Page 6
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Village London lines up Victoria opening
Village London, the London-based company behind Riding House Café, Village East and The Garrison, is understood to have lined up a fourth site in Victoria.
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NewsCAMRA campaigns to end levies
Members of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) have voted for the organisation to lobby for the abolition of both the late-night levy and unfair pricing by publicans.
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Steak of the Art targets expansion
Steak of the Art, a restaurant and art gallery concept is looking to expand from its Bristol home following investment of £7.5m to open more restaurants over the next five years
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Cornerstone Inns secures free-of-tie across estate
Cornerstone Inns, the Cheshire-based pub operator, now has an entirely free-of-tie estate after successful negotiations with Enterprise Inns, M&C Report has learnt.
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NewsBill’s lines up Sheffield opening
Bill’s, the Richard Caring-backed restaurant chain, has further strengthened its pipeline in the north east after securing a site in Sheffield
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Heartstone reports eighth year of growth
Heartstone Inns, the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)-backed freehold pub operator, reported a 5.3% year on year increase in sales growth to £6.5m for the 12 months to December 2014 and continued positive like for like sales growth for Q1 2015, managing director James Birch told M&C Report
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Rola Wala returns to London
Rola Wala, the street food deli-wrap concept, is running two London pop-ups ahead of finding a permanent restaurant in London, M&C Report has learnt
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Holland & Barrett launches dedicated Free From stores
Health food shop Holland & Barrett is opening its first Free From concept store in Chester as part of plans to open 50 over the next two years
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NewsHogs Back and Red Mist create hops salad
Surrey brewer Hogs Back Brewery has supplied hop shoots from its garden to pub company Red Mist Leisure to create a Real Ale Salad at the Stag on the River in Guildford
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NewsOrderswift generates 800 orders in first week for Benito's Hat
Benito’s Hat, the fast casual Mexican restaurant group, has launched an online ordering system with the introduction of Orderswift at three of its London restaurants
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Soho, Esquires and AMT top for ethical coffee
Soho Coffee Shop, Esquires Coffee Houses and AMT were named the top three ethical coffee shop brands across a number of environmental, social, sustainability and Fairtrade categories from 14 national chains in a recent study by Ethical Consumer
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NewsDeliveroo’s European expansion accelerates
Deliveroo, the restaurant delivery platform, is launching in 20 cities in continental Europe in the next six months after entering its first international markets in Dublin, Berlin and Paris
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Starbucks launches second UK site under evenings concept
Starbucks has opened the second UK store to feature its evenings menu, including the sale of alcohol.
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NewsPunch: Managed, franchised, MRO, new CEO and coffee shops
Punch Taverns executive chairman Stephen Billingham talks to M&C Report about the impact of the market rent only option on the tenanted and leased pub sector; moves to establish a managed and franchise operation; why Duncan Garrood is the right man to take the company forward and why he would not rule out a move into coffee shops.
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NewsMcDonald’s global lfls fall again
McDonald’s has reported global like-for-like sales down 2.3% in the quarter ending 31 March.
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NewsPret: Flirting over loyalty cards
Clive Schlee, chief executive of Pret A Manger, has said that company has avoided loyalty cards and instead empowered staff to give away a certain number of hot drinks and food every week for free
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NewsAnalysts: Punch in positive territory
Analysts have given their response to Punch taverns H1 numbers this morning.
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Camden Town Brewery fundraising closes at £2.7m
Camden Town Brewery has closed its fundraising round on Crowdcude after raising £2.7m from 2,320 investors
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Analysis & Insight
Sector missing out on £16bn from over-65s
Customers aged over 65 spent £37bn in the UK hospitality and leisure sector in the last year, according to new research from Barclays.
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Heineken reports weaker volumes in UK for Q1
Heineken has said the UK saw weaker volumes in the first quarter of 2015 because of “challenging market conditions”.