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San Carlo to launch Fumo bar
San Carlo, the Italian restaurant chain, is to launch a new bar restaurant concept next year called Fumo adjacent to its original eponymous site in Birmingham.The group, which currently operates nine sites in the UK, said the main feature of Fumo will be its bar with the food offer expected ...
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Cloverleaf FD joins Euro Garages
James Thornton, former finance director at the Greene King-owned Cloverleaf Restaurants, has joined Euro Garages, the forecourt operator, which operates a number of sites in partnership with Starbucks and Subway.Thornton joined Cloverleaf in 2007. During his time at the company, it expanded to 12 freehold sites, with a further 10 ...
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BBL Holdings co-founder opens gastropub
The co-founder of four-strong pub operator BBL Holdings Alistair Bramley has opened a gastro-pub with his wife Anna, in Hertfordshire.The Bull in Watton at Stone, near Stevenage, re-opened after a £240,000 joint investment with Punch. The couple has recruited chef Stuart Smith, who used to head the kitchen at Jamie’s ...