All MCA Insight articles in August 2013 – Page 22
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Greggs: Food-to-go focus, LFLs fall 2.9%
Greggs says it will place a new focus on food-to-go and pull back on expansion as it reports a 2.9% fall in like-for-like sales in the 26 weeks to 29 June
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Molson Coors employees settle pay dispute
Employees at the Molson Coors brewery in Burton-on-Trent have settled their dispute over pay and conditions
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Domino’s launches new motorway kiosk concept
Domino’s Pizza Group is to launch a new dining and takeaway concept in the UK after agreeing a package deal with Extra Motorway Service Area Group to initially open six outlets on the UK motorway network
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Waitrose acquires The Good Food Guide
Waitrose has acquired The Good Food Guide and said it intends to continue to operate the 63-year-old publication as an independent guide to eating out in the UK
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Analysis & InsightAll in the delivery
Domino’s Pizza Group has had a tough week. High-profile shareholders have cut their stakes in the company and its fledgling operation in Germany is facing teething problems. It remains the delivery market leader in the UK, but are consumers starting to look for more when they pick up the phone?
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NewsWahhab joins Wrap It Up! as non-exec director
Wrap It Up! has appointed Iqbal Wahhab, founder of Indian restaurant Cinnamon Club and Roast, the British restaurant and bar, as a non-executive director
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Analysis & InsightUK eating out market turnover to reach £90bn
The total UK foodservice and hospitality market will achieve 1.8% sales growth in 2013, reaching a total of £79.7bn, and is set for further positive growth over the next five years adding over £10bn in value to reach £90bn by 2018, representing compound annual growth of 2.4%.
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Outlaw to open Port Isaac venture
High-profile chef Nathan Outlaw is to open his latest site later this month in Port Isaac Cornwal
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Wray collects £28m from sale of Domino’s stake
Property entrepreneur Nigel Wray has sold his entire stake in Domino’s Pizza, collecting £28m in the process
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Little Chef to live on after c£15m deal
Little Chef, the iconic restaurant chain is to live on after the c80-strong business was acquired from RCapital by the Kuwaiti company Kout Food Group Restaurants UK Limited (KFGR-UK), in a deal, which valued the business at around £15m
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Hotel Chocolat secures UK restaurant site
Hotel Chocolat, the premium chocolate retailer and café operator, is understood have secured the Sweet Basil site in London’s Spitalifields for its first UK restaurant
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NewsEnterprise boost prevents M&C20 Index slide
The M&C20 Leisure Index (up 3 points to 1,159) underperformed the FTSE All Share Index (up 14 points to 1,032) for only the fourth time in the last quarter, despite the best efforts of Enterprise Inns, whose shares rose 14.3% over the past week. Without Enterprise’s contribution, the index would ...
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Zing Zing eyes London presence
Zing Zing, the new Chinese devliery concept is planning to expand across London after the success of its first site in Islington
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CAU ready to ramp up expansion plans
CAU is set to ramp its expansion plans over the next 18 months after the success of its first two openings in Guildford and Cambridge
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Itsu reaches 40 mark
Itsu has secured the 40th site in London for its smaller store format, near Euston Square
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Analysis & InsightThe restaurant hot spots
Restaurant and property consultant Adam Hyman takes a look at the migration of eating-out circuits across London. True entrepreneurs, it is said, find worth in the worthless and possibility in the impossible. But having the foresight - sometimes peppered with a bit of luck - to open a restaurant in a certain area might be an even more fitting definition.
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Gold secures second London site
David Gold, the founder of Great Lengths International, has secured a second site in central London for his fledgling Love’s Fresh Pasta concept
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Interviews
Friday five-minute interview
M&C Report talks to Chris Soley, managing director of Camerons, the brewer and pub operator, about his best investment, his best business decision and the best piece of advice he’s ever received
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Opinion
Diciannove to open in Blackfriars
Diciannove, a new Italian restaurant, deli and cicchetti bar will open on in Blackfriars next month
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Byatt closes in on second Bistro Union site
Adam Byatt is in the closing stages of negotiations to secure a second site in London for his Bistro Union concept