All MCA Insight articles in December 2015 – Page 15
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Analysis & Insight
Millennials most loyal customer group in sector
Millennials (18-24 year olds) are the most loyal customer group for restaurants and coffee shops
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News
Orderella launches Apple Pay
Orderella, the mobile ordering app, has launched Apple Pay across all of its venues in the UK & Ireland
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Meantime wishes Camden Town “all the best”
Nick Miller, chief executive of craft brewer Meantime, which is owned by AB InBev, has wished Camden Town Brewery “all the best for 2016”
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Survey shows concern over skills and NLW for 2016
A new report by the CBI has highlighted concerns about skills shortages and the National Living wage as the key challenges for the sector going into 2016.
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Camden Town: ‘AB InBev know how to handle craft beer’
Camden Town Brewery founder Jasper Cuppaidge has told M&C that AB InBev’s handling of Goose Island and other US craft brewers gave him confidence to agree to the global giant’s £85m takeover.
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Analysis & Insight
Going out drives consumer spending
Consumer spending increased at the fastest pace in at least four years in 2015, according to Barclaycard
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News
Revolution strengthens food team
Revolution Bars Group has announced the creation of three new group management positions in its catering team
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FY lfls up 6.9% Gusto
Gusto has reported a 6.9% rise in like-for-like sales for the year to 31 March 2015, with overall sales up 22% to £18.2m.
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Darby paid £878k in final year at M&B
Alistair Darby received £878,000 in his final year as chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers and was paid the equivalent of his £540,000 annual basic salary as payment for loss of office.
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News
Bagelman drops franchising plans
Brighton-based café operator Bagelman has dropped any franchising plans and is instead focusing on expanding its company owned stores in the south with a £160,000 crowdfunding campaign, M&C has learned.
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NewsLeon to begin overseas expansion
Leon is to make its overseas debut next year with a launch in Holland, at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport
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InterviewsSector snapshot: Shaking up the UK burger market
M&C talks to Randy Garutti, chief executive of Shake Shack, as the company launches its fourth UK site and its first outside London, in Cardiff today. He discusses how operating in the UK has made Shake Shack “up our game” back home, his plans for UK expansion, how the company is coping with wage increases on both sides of the pond and what trends he sees developing in 2016.
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NewsPorky’s to launch crowdfunding campaign
Memphis barbeque restaurant Porky’s is launching a crowdfunding campaign next year to raise funds for further expansion M&C has learned.
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NewsChicken Shop set for St John’s Wood
Soho House has lined up a further site for its Chicken Shop concept in St John’s Wood
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Heineken takes over distribution of Red Stripe
Heineken UK has confirmed it will take over all marketing, distribution and sales rights for Red Stripe in Britain from 1 January.
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H&W eyes tenanted growth and more investment
Hall & Woodhouse is gearing up for expansion in its tenanted arm and is likely to match this year’s record capex spend of £3.5m in the estate, M&C has learnt.
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NewsBrewDog seeks to protect itself from takeovers
BrewDog is proposing amending its articles of association ruling out a takeover by any “monolithic purveyor of bland industrial beer”.
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News
Harvester donates 5,000 meals to local causes
Harvester, the Mitchells & Butlers-owned chain, has treated a multitude of charities local based near its 230 sites to free Christmas meals
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NewsGrowth Tracker 2016 open for entries
M&C Allegra 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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NewsPOD appoints new director of food
POD has appointed Sean Burlinson, formerly of Harris + Hoole and Spirit Pub Company, as its new director of food