All Azzurri Group articles – Page 8
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NewsOperator predictions for 2017
MCA talks to leading operators across the sector about their predictions for 2017, including challenges, opportunities and the concepts to watch over the next 12 months.
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Analysis & Insight
2016: A year of disruptions
MCA’s Peter Linden looks backs on a year of disruption in the eating out sector and ahead to prospects for the sector in 2017.
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News
Hickory’s to rebrand ahead of growth to 12
Hickory’s, the smokehouse and barbecue concept, is to launch a new look at its largest site to date, as it targets growth to a 12-strong estate by 2019.
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News
Growth Index nominations open
MCA is once again teaming up with leading advisory firm AlixPartners to identify the top 50 private firms with the fastest-growing profits in the UK eating and drinking-out sector.
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News
ASK Italian to launch click & collect
ASK Italian has partnered with online ordering specialists Orderswift to roll out a new click and collect service
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NewsAzzurri sees FY sales grow 5%
MCA talks to Azzurri Group chief executive Steve Holmes, as the group publishes its results for the year to 26 June.
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OpinionPerfect pitch
As we move into the final quarter of the year, there is a sense that operators across the sector are having to reassess the levels they have set on their respective “business graphic equalisers” to match the increasing headwinds. The majority are being faced with the questions of do you dial down investment on marketing and expansion whilst fading up funding on recruitment/training and maintenance capex?
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OpinionCoco channels staff progress
Daniel Land and Jeremy Sanders, founders of Coco Di Mama, the Azzurri Group-backed quick-service Italian concept, talk to Mark Wingett about a transformational year
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News
Azzurri backs new fast-casual pizza concept
Azzurri Group is backing the launch of a new fast-casual pizza concept called Radio Alice, which will open its first site in Hoxton Square this December
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Coco di Mama strengthens pipeline
Coco di Mama, the Azzurri Group-owned, quick-service Italian concept, has secured a further three sites in the capital
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Coco di Mama appoints head of people
Coco di Mama, the Azzurri Group-owned, quick-service Italian concept, has appointed Charley O’Toole as its new head of people
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Analysis & Insight
What does Brexit mean for M&A?
Two months after the EU referendum, there is much that remains unclear about the way forward in both politics and the economy, leaving businesses second-guessing. With buyers and investors likely to adopt a ‘wait and see’ attitude, GCA Altium’s Sam Fuller predicts a quiet couple of months ahead
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News
Carpenter swaps Zizzi for Wagamama
Fran Carpenter has stepped down as head of HR at Zizzi, the Azzurri Group-owned chain, to join Wagamama
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News
ASK launches breakfast kitchen pop-ups
ASK Italian, the Azzurri Group-owned brand, has launched a breakfast kitchen pop-up concept across 10 of its sites
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Coco Di Mama reaches a dozen
Coco di Mama, the quick-service Italian concept, has secured its twelfth site in the capital, after securing a site in Holborn
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GBK eyes further expansion in Ireland
GBK has bought back its Irish franchise rights from local businessman Graeme Beere as it looks to add further sites to its five-strong estate in the country
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Payton steps down as Zizzi ops director
Rebecca Payton has stepped down as operations director of the Azzurri Group-owned Zizzi restaurant chain
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Analysis & Insight
A different class?
A lack of quality sites for growth and expansion is sadly the restaurant industry’s Achilles heel. A shortage of supply, together with increasing rent and premiums, means that even those with ample funds and considerable appetite are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve returns for investors; and this problem is only likely to amplify as more operators join the bun fight, argues consultant Stephen Evans
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Big Easy confirms strengthening of management team
Big Easy has appointed six members to its senior management team, as it looks at to take the business “to the next level”
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Analysis & InsightIndividual pursuits
Keeping itself to itself has not harmed Individual Restaurant Company, the operator of the Piccolino and Restaurant Bar & Grill brands. In fact, managing director Vernon Lord tells Mark Wingett that looking inwards is helping produce record results