All Coffee shops & Cafes articles – Page 82
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EAT closes in on refurbishment completions
EAT, the Lyceum Capital-backed group, has completed its re-branding exercise at 88 of stores leaving 12 yet to come under the new look
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Nordic Bakery seeks funding for more sites
London-based Scandinavian café concept Nordic Bakery is back on the acquisition trail to find its next site and remains on track to build an estate of 10 cafes across London, M&C Report has learnt
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Beanscene files for liquidation
Beanscene, the Scottish coffee shop chain, has filed for liquidation and is expected to close its 10 branches this week
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EAT unveils festive menu
EAT, the Lyceum Capital-backed group, is launching a festive menu this month that will include of hot pots, baguettes and bloomers and a number of new items for 2014
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Bagelman signs first franchisees
Bagelman, the Brighton-based café operator, has signed its first franchisees and is preparing to open stores under franchise agreement along the south coast in 2015, M&C Report has learnt
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Taylor St Baristas to raise £3m through “Coffee Bond”
Taylor St Baristas is hoping to raise £3m through the UK’s first crowd-sourced “Coffee Bond”
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Analysis & InsightThe cultural shift in time allocation
Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz looks at the cultural shift in time allocation currently occurring in the consumer environment, away from “retail experiences people have felt forced to undertake and towards retail experiences that people want to enjoy with convenience as the key enabler”
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Peyton & Byrne to launch £1m central bakery
Peyton & Byrne is to invest £1m in a new 18,000sq ft central bakery, which would allow it to supply 20 more sites
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NewsStarbucks says strong UK performance drove 5% lfl sales growth in Q4
Starbucks reported 5% like-for-like global sales with a “particularly strong performance in the UK” in Q4 2014.
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Starbucks and Costa Coffee top in social media benchmark
Starbucks and Costa Coffee are leading the pack in engaging with UK social media users, according to the latest Food and Beverage Social Media Benchmark from eDigitalResearch.
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Pita Pit continues London expansion
Pita Pit, the North American-based healthy fast food concept, which launched in the UK last year, has secured its third site in London
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NewsSecond Cup sets out UK expansion plan
Second Cup has signed commitments to open 90 sites in the UK over the next five years, after opening its debut site in Manchester
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James becomes Roots & Bulbs MD
Roots & Bulbs, the fledgling cold pressed juice bar concept, has appointed Tom James, former director at Jamie’s Italian, as its first managing director
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NewsPaul UK confirms regional launch
Paul UK, the London-based French concept, has confirmed it will open its first site outside of London in Oxford in early December
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NewsOliver closes Recipease sites
High-profile chef Jamie Oliver has closed two of the three sites operating as Recipease, his food and kitchen store concept
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NewsPatisserie Valerie secures further Manchester opening
Patisserie Holdings, the AIM-list group, has opened a third site in Manchester under its core Patisserie Valerie site
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Spirits revolution to match coffee impact
Diageo’s on-trade sales director Ronak Mashru likened the company’s fledging Spirits Revolution initiative to the transformation that has occurred in coffee retailing
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Wafflemeister to step up expansion plans
Wafflemeister, the Belgian waffle specialist, is to ramp up its UK expansion with plans for a further 10-15 sites over the next 12 months
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NewsCosta growth strategy realistic
The managing director of Costa Coffee has insisted the brand’s growth strategy is realistic and that the growing resilience of competitors Café Nero and Starbucks is not a concer
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NewsBrew eyeing estate of 10
Brew, the London-based all day café concept, is looking to grow its estate to between eight and 10 sites over the next year before looking to expand outside of London, M&C Report has learnt