All MCA Insight articles in August 2015 – Page 2
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News
US fast-casual pizza brand eye UK debuts
MOD Pizza, the fast casual artisan pizza concept, and Blaze Pizza, one of the fastest-growing better pizza brands in the US, are both exploring opportunities to debut in the UK
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Opinion
Lickin’ KFC back into shape
Year after year the public taste for KFC saw sales climb ever upwards, until in 2013 a storm of factors reversed that process. Ruth Williams hears how a new marketing approach set about the task of rebuilding the brand
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News
ALMR writes to minister on tipping issue
The ALMR has written to Sajid Javid, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on the issue of tips, gratuities and service charges
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News
Bread Ahead eyes expansion
Bread Ahead Bakery has opened its second retail site in Westfield Stratford, as it looks to expand
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News
TRG: Trading, pubs, tipping
On the back of its half-year update this morning, M&C talks to Danny Breithaupt, chief executive of The Restaurant Group (TRG)
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News
Five minutes with….. Steve Nuttall, Joule’s
M&C takes five minutes with Steve Nuttall, managing director of Joule’s, about his business priorities for the next year, why Jeremy Corbyn should take the Liverpool to Euston train and the problem with Generation Y
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News
Laine Pub Co eyes expansion of London estate
Laine Pub Company chief executive Gavin George has told M&C the company is “acquisitive” and is actively looking for new London sites while investing in its current estate.
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Analysis & Insight
Greggs tops food to go brands for visit share
M&C Allegra Foodservice’s latest Food To Go Tracker has shown Greggs topping the list of brands for share of visits.
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News
Las Iguanas secures Birmingham site
Las Iguanas is set to open four new sites by the end of the year, including a restaurant at the Resorts World scheme in Birmingham
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News
Tossed eyes refinancing after record crowdfunding raise
Tossed, the healthy food to go concept, is set to ramp up its expansion programme after securing a record crowdfunding raise.
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News
Zapper app to double staff tips at 800 UK restaurants
Mobile payment company Zapper has announced it will double staff tips at the 800 UK restaurants which use its app on a monthly Zapper Waiter Day.
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News
Intertain spends £1m on new concept in Birmingham
Intertain has spent £1m converting its Bar Risa site on Birmingham’s Broad Street into a new concept 6 on Broad Street.
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Analysis & Insight
Flexitarianism driving vegetarian new dish growth
Vegetarian dishes now account for 31% of new items added to menus across all courses – up from 18% last year, according to the latest research from M&C Allegra Foodservice.
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News
GK exchanges on 16-strong package
Greene King has exchanged contracts on the sale of the 16 pubs it was required to dispose of by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), with the bulk of them going to Star Pubs & Bars.
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News
Red Oak acquires 146 GRS pubs
Red Oak Taverns, the Mark Grunnell-led pub operator has acquired the 146-strong GRS tenanted pub portfolio, in a deal thought to be worth c£35m.
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News
Viet Eat team to launch Vietnamese burger concept
The team behind Holborn Vietnamese restaurant Viet Eat have launched a crowdfunding campaign to launch London’s first Vietnamese burger concept.
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News
Go takes Wolf Street north
The founders of Go Food have secured their first site in the north for its new concept Wolf Street Food
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News
BurgerFi set for UK debut
BurgerFi, is set to become the latest US better burger brand to enter the UK, after signing a franchise agreement for the country
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News
Tokyo Industries opens multiple venues on same Bradford site
Tokyo Industries will open four venues on the same Bradford site in the next few weeks, in what managing director Aaron Mellor described as the company’s “most ambitious project yet”. The collection of venues represents a c£2m investment by Tokyo, softened by a large ‘Invest in Bradford’ EU grant. The ...
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News
B&L to convert Binney Street site
Burger & Lobster, the Goodman-owned London-based group, is looking to open its second site in Mayfair