All MCA Insight articles in August 2014 – Page 20
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NewsUK strength lifts Burger King
The strength of the UK market helped Burger King to report a 0.9% rise in comparable sales in the EMEA region for the second quarter of 2014
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Yo Yo Noodle builds pipeline, signs Nigeria franchise
Yo Yo Noodle, the Lincoln-based Chinese food chain, has lined up a further three openings and has signed up a franchisee to launch the concept in Nigeria, chief executive Jadey Li has told M&C Report
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NewsFive Guys confirms Solihull opening
Five Guys, the popular US burger chain, has confirmed the opening of a site in Solihull in the West Midlands
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Stonegate opens tech-friendly pub
Stonegate, the managed pub operator, has opened a technologically-advanced pub in Epsom, Surrey, to appeal to students and workers, GetSurrey reports
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NewsLeon outlines UK-wide expansion plans
Leon, the healthy fast food concept, is ramping up expansion with 16 new restaurants planned in 2015 across the UK and is “actively looking” for sites for a US debut, M&C Report has learnt
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NewsLeon celebrates bumper 10th anniversary
Leon, the healthy fast food chain led by Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent, has enjoyed growth of 31.3% in its like-for-like-sales so far this year, M&C Report has learnt
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Commonwealth Games increase Glasgow restaurant trade
Glasgow restaurants and street food pop-ups benefited from the city’s busiest period ever as the Commonwealth Games brought an influx of tourists
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Prospect Inns eyes expansion
Prospect Inns, the sister pub business of Lancashire-based Prospect Brewery, is to open a bar located within a railway arch as it looks to grow to around half a dozen sites, M&C Report has learnt
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Ex-D&M managers to launch bar venture
Two former Drake & Morgan managers are to start a new bar venture with the opening of a “neighbourhood cocktail and snack bar” in Brixton, south London, M&C Report’s sister title the Publican’s Morning Advertiser has learnt
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Hotel guests unimpressed by in-room coffee
Three quarters (75%) of hotel guests rate the quality of in-room coffee as poor or average, a UCC Coffee survey has shown
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McMullen’s launches pizza pub concept
Hertfordshire brewer and pub operator McMullen’s has launched a pizza pub concept at The Angels pub in Hitchen, Hertfordshire
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Hungry Horse and Wildwood confirmed for Telford development
Greene King’s Hungry Horse and Wildwood Restaurants have been confirmed as the latest tenants for new units of a development in Telford called Southwater Telford
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NewsTenanted performance holds back Adnams
Adnams, the Suffolk brewer and pub operator, has reported a 29% rise in operating profit to £862,000 in the six months to 30 June, although results were held back by the “less good trading” within the tenanted pub estate
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Pull'd secures first London site
Pull’d, a new slow-cooked and barbequed meat restaurant concept, has secured its first site on Cannon Street, City of London as part of plans to open up to five London sites over the next three years
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Tasty to open Wildwood/cafe hybrid
Tasty, the AIM-listed restaurant operator led by Johnny Plant, has reportedly secured the site of a famous Shropshire tearoom for a specially adapted version of Wildwood that will maintain much of the site’s original offer
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Whiting & Hammond signs up to Tax Equality Day
Whiting & Hammond, the Kent-based multiple pub operator, has pledged its support for Tax Equality Day on 24 September
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NewsPizza Hut names new CFO
Pizza Hut Restaurants has appointed Odeon Cinemas finance director Adrian Walker as its chief finance officer
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Analysis & InsightFoodservice catches up with grocery as eating out grows
The foodservice sector is catching up with grocery giants as more and more people go out to eat, according to new CGA research that shows 43% of people in the UK now go out to eat at least once a week
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OpinionTenanted pubs - a revival waiting to happen
Reports of the death of wet-led tenanted pubs are exaggerated, and in some ways the decline of this sector has inadvertently been exacerbated by pubcos themselves. To put it right would require a change of approach, argues Simon Johnson, senior director of CBRE
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Minimum pricing ‘would have no effect on pubs’
Two new studies have given support for minimum alcohol unit pricing, with one academic accusing the Government of a “lamentable failure to take action”