All MCA Insight articles in August 2015 – Page 14
-
News
Redman to open Japanese street food restaurant
Brett Redman, the Australian chef behind Michelin Bib Gourmand winning Elliot’s and The Richmond in Hackney, is to open a new Japanese street food restaurant in Dalston
-
News
Novus appoints first graduate roles
Nightclub operator Novus Leisure has launched a graduate scheme to help young people learn and develop in the hospitality sector
-
News
Baskin Robbins set for Ireland debut
Baskin-Robbins, the Dunkin’ Brands owned ice cream store, is set to make its Irish debut with eight stores planned across Northern and the Republic of Ireland
-
Analysis & Insight
87% of customers would not return after slow service
A new poll has shown that while 95% of customers would complain to their friends about slow service in a pub or restaurant, only 48% would tell the venue.
-
News
Tiny Rebel wins Champion Beer of Britain
Welsh brewer Tiny Rebel has won Champion Beer of Britain at the Great British Beer Festival for Cwtch.
-
News
Payne: Stonegate is constantly looking to grow
Ian Payne, chairman of Stonegate Pub Company, has said that the group is constantly looking to grow and that his role is to oversee the group’s M&A activity
-
News
M&B starts rollout of evolved Sizzling format
M&B is continuing to evolve its Heartland estate with the rollout of its new Sizzling Pizza, Pub & Carvery format and a further evolved version of the brand
-
News
Dark Star secures first site for new pub vehicle
Dark Star Brewery has agreed terms on a site in Haywards Heath, Sussex, for its fledgling pub company, M&C understands.
-
News
Clevely/Enterprise JV to be called Hippo Inns
Geronimo Inns founder Rupert Clevely’s joint venture with Enterprise Inns will be known as Hippo Inns, M&C understands.
-
News
Darwin & Wallace secures Richmond site
Darwin & Wallace, the Imbiba backed bar and restaurant group, has secured its third site with an opening in Richmond due for November.
-
News
Marks: Club numbers down because of bad operators
Peter Marks, chief executive of the Deltic Group, has told M&C that nightclub numbers fell 45% over the past decade because far too many were badly run.
-
News
Q2 same store sales up 12.9% at Shake Shack
Shake Shack, the Danny Meyer-founded better burger chain, saw same store sale increase 12.9% during its second quarter
-
News
Iconic music venue The Water Rats sold
Iconic London music venue The Water Rats has been acquired by Sally Fox who previously ran the successful Soho nightclub Moonlighting
-
News
Epic Pubs secures first site
Epic Pub Company, the venture launched by a group of former Peach Pub executives, has secured its first site.
-
News
Punch shortlisted for national innovation award
Punch Taverns’ New Business Development team has been shortlisted in the innovation category of the National Business Awards.
-
Analysis & Insight
Consumer spending a tale of two halves in July
Consumer spending growth hit 4.6% in July year-on-year, but it was a month of two halves thanks to the weather
-
Analysis & Insight
The challenge of scale vs soul
Sam Roberts, founder of the 16-strong Boston Tea Party (BTP), the modern independent British café concept, grapples with the challenge of growing a business without comprising its core principles
-
News
Abokado reaches 25
Abokado will celebrate opening its 25th site in the capital by giving away pots of frozen yoghurt for only 25p across all its stores tomorrow (12 August)
-
News
Thornbridge to take over Craft Beer Co site for a week
Thornbridge brewery is taking over Craft Beer Co’s Clerkenwell site as part of the London Beer Week.
-
News
Handmade Burger Co to open in Intu Newcastle
Handmade Burger Co is to open in Newcastle’s Eldon Square development.