All MCA Insight articles in August 2015 – Page 7
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Analysis & Insight
Beefeater has highest visit spend across pub brands
Beefeater delivered the highest average spend per visit across the major pub brands in the second quarter of 2015.
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Analysis & Insight
Toby Carvery only brand to grow NPS and revisit scores
The latest Pub Brand Monitor has shown Toby Carvery as the only major chain to increase net promoter score and grow revisit scores at both lunch and dinner in Q2 2015.
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News
BrewDog launches apprenticeship programme
BrewDog has launched its own apprenticeship programme, taking on 20 employees.
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Analyst corner: Batram on TRG
Leading analyst Nick Batram at Peel Hunt says that The Restaurant Group should post a solid H1 next week
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Mr Fogg’s gets re-brand ahead of rollout
Mr Fogg’s, the Inception Group’s Phileas Fogg-themed cocktail bar, is to open seven days a week from 7 September and will now be known as Mr Fogg’s Residence.
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Punch to offer social media advice at 2015 roadshows
Punch Taverns will offer digital and social media advice for the first time at its latest roadshow tour as well as showcasing the latest craft beer and ciders and a wider range of spirits.
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Five minutes with…. Noel D’Arcy, Big Easy
This week M&C takes five minutes with Noel D’Arcy, managing director of the Big Easy, to talk about a busy year ahead for the concept, the allure of grab and go and the challenges of recruitment.
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Analysis & Insight
Focused on being simply the best
Forty one years on from managing Whitbread’s Bull Inn in the village of Barming, near Maidstone, Kent, Ian Payne, the chairman of Stonegate Pub Company, is still as enthusiastic about the pub sector as he ever has been
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M&B to open a M&C near Chertsey
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is set to convert its Harvester near Chertsey, Surrey into its Miller & Carter steakhouse brand, M&C understands. The company is set to convert the Otter in Ottershaw to the 36-strong brand before the end of the year. M&B will open its second site under its ...
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Fuller’s to open rugby pop-up in Moorgate
Fuller’s is launching its pop-up London Pride Clubhouse to coincide with the Rugby World Cup.
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Louis Louis Pizza & Deli Emporium opens in Nottingham
Louis Louis Pizza & Dining Emporium, a new concept by young chef Louis Gray, will open in Nottingham’s Das Kino in September
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Gourmet burger pub operator doubles up
Publican Jim Banks has opened his second London pub - The Grove at Battersea – as an eclectic family-friendly bar as he looks for a third venue
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Handmade Burger outlines expansion plans
Handmade Burger Co, the Sargeant Partnership-owned group, is looking to strengthen its brand presence in the south of England
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Paul UK confirms Birmingham opening
Paul, the bakery café group, has confirmed it will open at Birmingham’s Grand Central shopping centre in September as part of its regional expansion push
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Insomnia eyes 35-strong UK estate
Insomnia, the Irish coffee bar group, hopes to open between 35 – 40 coffee shops in the UK over the next two years
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Purecraft Bars agrees heads of terms on Nottingham site
Purecraft Bars, the collaboration between Purity Brewing and chef Andreas Antona, has agreed heads of terms on a site in Nottingham for its second site, M&C understands.
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Pho recruits local young workers for Manchester launch
Vietnamese restaurant Pho has recruited nine young people from local youth charity The Factory Youth Zone to work in its Manchester restaurant
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Analysis & Insight
JDW faces pressure in key day parts
JD Wetherspoon continues to be the best known pub brand but is facing increasing pressure, the latest Pub Brand Monitor from M&C Allegra Foodservice has shown.
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News
Urban Pubs & Bars to launch pizza concept
Urban Pubs & Bars is to launch a new pizza concept in London’s Hackney
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Inamo lines up Café Des Amis
Inamo is believed to have secured Covent Garden-based French restaurant and bar Café Des Amis for its third opening in the capital