All Costa articles – Page 25

  • News

    Food Fund International eyes City opening

    2016-03-30T08:26:52.197Z

    Food Fund International, the hospitality group founded by one of South Africa’s most prolific restauranteurs, Costa Tomazos, is in advanced talks to open a site in City of London

  • EAT exterior
    News

    Johnson steps down as EAT CEO

    2016-03-23T10:07:00Z

    Adrian Johnson has stepped down as chief executive of EAT, the Lyceum Capital-backed sandwich shop chain, to pursue other opportunities

  • News

    Reynolds steps down at YO!

    2016-03-23T08:19:00Z

    Paul Reynolds has stepped down as operations director and as a board member of the Mayfair Equity Partners-backed YO! Sushi

  • Five Guys kitchen
    Analysis & Insight

    Five Guys ranked most popular fast food chain

    2016-03-22T08:37:00Z

    Five Guys, the US burger concept, which launched in the UK in 2013, has been ranked the UK’s most popular fast food chain

  • Analysis & Insight

    Millennials remain most loyal consumer group

    2016-03-22T07:54:00Z

    New research has shown that millennials are the most likely age group (18%) to plan increased spending on eating out in 2016

  • Mike Tye
    News

    Mike Tye joins TRG board

    2016-03-18T07:13:00Z

    Former Spirit Pub Company chief executive Mike Tye has joined the board of The Restaurant Group.

  • Chop'd
    News

    Costa expands partnership with Chop’d

    2016-03-08T08:32:00Z

    Costa has announced that it is extending its partnership with premium salad operator Chop’d to a further 12 London stores after a successful trial in 2015.

  • News

    Costa lfls up 0.5%

    2016-03-03T07:18:00Z

    Whitbread has this morning reported that Costa like-for-likes for the 11 weeks to 11 February increased 0.5%, while like-for-like sales across its restaurants grew 2.3%

  • News

    Costa to launch in Canada

    2016-03-01T08:33:26.623Z

    Costa is launching in Canada for the first time with 150 Costa Express self-serve coffee bars to be rolled out into Shell petrol stations

  • London restaurants
    Analysis & Insight

    What goes up…

    2016-02-29T08:31:00Z

    So current rent levels are unsustainable but are we heading for a recalibration? According to the latest insight, our high street sandwiches and coffees are full of salt and sugar respectively, but does the sector wait for Government target setting on health issues or make the first move itself and why new M&B chief executive Phil Urban looks like he is getting to the heart of the matter

  • Coffee
    Analysis & Insight

    January sees coffee shops increase market share

    2016-02-26T08:20:00Z

    January was a strong month for coffee shops with the channel cementing its number one spot at breakfast and gaining share of visits at both lunch and dinner, the latest data from M&C Allegra Foodservice has shown.

  • News

    Applegreen to expand café concept into the UK

    2016-02-25T08:42:26.640Z

    Applegreen, the Ireland-based forecourt operator, is to expand its Bakewell café concept into the UK

  • News

    BurgerFi closes in on UK debut site

    2016-02-17T08:05:00Z

    BurgerFi, is set to become the latest US better burger brand to make its debut in the UK, after lining up a site in north west London

  • Pizza Hut interior
    News

    Pizza Hut commences sales process

    2016-02-13T08:04:00Z

    Rutland Partners, the private equity backers of Pizza Hut Restaurants, has appointed advisors to oversee the sale of the c280-strong group

  • News

    Costa franchise sold in “multi-million pound deal”

    2016-02-12T16:33:00Z

    Purple World Limited, the operator of 10 Costa Coffee units in the North West, has been acquired by Red and Racz Limited

  • Costa Express Marlow
    News

    Costa installs 5,000th Express machine

    2016-02-12T08:22:00Z

    Costa Coffee has said its Express division has reached the milestone of its 5,000th self-serve coffee bar installation.

  • News

    Rollo: Costa has untapped potential

    2016-02-08T08:14:00Z

    Leading analyst Jamie Rollo, of Morgan Stanley, has estimated that only 20% of Costa stores are at full capacity, suggesting upside from additional sites.

  • Star Pubs & Bars
    News

    Star Pubs set for ‘continuous growth’ following restructure

    2016-02-03T08:37:00Z

    David Forde, managing director of Heineken UK, has told M&C the recent restructure of Star Pubs & Bars has set the division up for continuous growth.

  • News

    Holloway to swap Costa for Prezzo

    2016-01-20T08:09:33.583Z

    Steve Holloway, currently partnerships director at Costa UK & Ireland, is to leave the Whitbread-owned coffee chain to join Prezzo

  • News

    NewRiver reports progress on pub developments

    2016-01-20T07:55:00Z

    NewRiver Retail has reported further progress in its development pipeline for its pubs as well as deals with Burger King and Costa in its third quarter to 31 December.