All Banana Tree articles
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NewsOpenings of the week
MCA rounds up this week’s biggest openings stories, including Big Mamma, Cosy Club, WatchHouse, and more
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NewsBig Table Group sees turnover surpass £223m
The operator of Las Iguanas, Bella Italia, Banana Tree, and Café Rouge has identified material growth opportunities for the 75 sites it acquired from The Restaurant Group last year, along with testing several conversions
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NewsAnne Chow to step down as Banana Tree MD
She is stepping down after a “whirlwind 18 months” since the brand’s acquisitoin by Big Table Group, and will be replaced by Kate Wilton, formerly of Stonegate, Spirit and Whitbread
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InterviewsBanana Tree: ‘There’s potential to grow the brand significantly’
The Big Table Group brand is on track to double its estate in less than a year and is exploring expansion outside the Southeast, MD Anne Chow tells MCA
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Analysis & InsightBig Table takes on ‘substantial risk’ with TRG Leisure estate
Following the payment of a £7.5m ‘dowry’ to take on The Restaurant Group’s Leisure business, MCA explores the challenges facing The Big Table Group as it’s tasked with turning around the loss-making estate
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InterviewsBig Table Group: ‘We’re the best capitalised restaurant group in the UK’
CEO Alan Morgan tells MCA about plans to invest in new sites, roll out Super Nonna and explore conversions for Banana Tree
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NewsBig Table reports improved sales and profits
The Las Iguanas and Banana Tree operator posted EBITDA of £12.9m for FY22, showing it as a “resilient, efficient” business
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InterviewsBig Table explores Banana Tree conversions
Banana Tree MD Anne Chow tells MCA its new backer will also give it better access to new site opportunities
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NewsBig Table acquires Banana Tree
The group has acquired the nine-strong pan-Asian chain Banana Tree for an undisclosed sum, with Anne Chow to lead Banana Tree as managing director
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NewsBanana Tree sees delivery growth from outside London
Indochinese restaurant operator Banana Tree has found that growth in delivery sales during the pandemic has increased five-fold outside the capital, director Anne Chow told MCA.
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NewsDeliveroo turns supplier - and vows to save restaurants up to 40%
Deliveroo has launched a new arm to its operation which will supply raw ingredients to restaurants – and claimed it can deliver savings of up to 40%.
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OpinionFocus on: AlixPartners’ Growth Company Index 2019
MCA editor James Wallin gives a sneak peek at this year’s entrants for the AlixPartners Growth Company Index and looks back at previous winners
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MCA and AlixPartners launch Growth Company Index 2019
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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NewsNWTC named sector’s fastest growing company
New World Trading Company, the Graphite-backed pub group, has been named the fastest growing company in the UK eating and drinking-out sector over the past year.
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Operators should not ignore £1bn free-from market
Foodservice operators should not ignore the growing gluten-free opportunity in the UK, delegates at MCA’s Marketing Conference heard last week. Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, chef and entrepreneur, Genius Foods, said the free-from category was currently worth £1bn in the UK, with 25% of the population buying into the gluten-free occasion – 8% ...
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Lfls up c7% at Banana Tree
South-east Asian restaurant group Banana Tree saw its like-for-like sales increase by c7% in the five months from May to September. The company, which opened its ninth site last week in Chelmsford, saw like-for-like sales rise 10% in September alone. “With a backdrop of rather depressing hospitality news, we are ...
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Banana Tree joins Deliveroo Editions
Banana Tree is to become the latest group to sign up to open at a Deliveroo Editions unit
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Growth companies to watch
This month Turtle Bay was unveiled as the fastest growing company in the eating and drinking out sector, according to the AlixPartners Growth Company Index, compiled in association with MCA. However, there are other operators making waves that haven’t made it on to the list for one reason or another. Mark Wingett provides a snapshot of five that are jostling for a listing.
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Banana Tree seeks further 2017 opening
Banana Tree hopes to add a further site to its eponymous brand before the end of the year, after securing a site in Chelmsford
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NewsChristmas trading round-up
Leading operators share their experiences of Christmas trading with MCA, including Loungers, Novus Leisure, Dirty Martini, City Pub Company, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Draft House, Inception Group and Pizza Pilgrims among others.