All MCA Insight articles in December 2017 – Page 12
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Analysis & Insight
Momentum in vegan trend merits greater recognition
Veganism is one of the UK’s fastest growing lifestyle trends, but how can operators capitalise on its popularity and what is currently stopping them? MCA’s Steve Gotham reports.
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Analysis & Insight
Danous: 'I'm the loose cannon of the industry'
Since founding Thai Square Restaurant Group more than 20 years ago, Haim Danous has seen his fair share of rivals come and go. As he relaunches his Islington branch after an 11-month closure, he talks to MCA about sticking to his guns, the pitfalls of private equity investment and new avenues.
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News
Founders’ Forum Focus: Claw
Fabian Clark was shocked when he learnt some British fishmongers were exporting 80% of their crab, kick starting a voyage to create Claw, a brand with the crustacean as its hero dish. In the latest of our Founders’ Forum series, Finn Scott-Delany hears how a sideways approach to expansion is being taken.
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News
Analysts’ corner: Mees on Marston’s
Alexander Mees, analyst at JPMorgan Cazenove, described yesterday’s full-year results from Marston’s as like a mild ale, with profits in line with expectations and no change to FY18/19 estimates.
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News
Aqua Restaurants Group appoints advisers
Aqua Restaurants Group has appointed advisers to help secure new investment as it seeks further international expansion
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Opinion
Cracking the code
Ei Group has transformed its business in the wake of the pubs code but tenanted and leased pubs remain the bulk of its portfolio. Ei Publican Partnerships managing director Nick Light reveals what the tied model looks like in a post pubs-code era. James Wallin reports
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Opinion
Trend watch: Dirty vegan food
Biffs Jack Shack, the vegan fast food trader specialising in deep-fried jackfruit, has taken the street food scene by storm this year. MCA looks at the trend-surfing concept and its prospects for growth.
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News
Bundobust eyes investment; set for Liverpool
Bundobust is started talks regarding taking on new investment, as it gears up to secure a site in Liverpool
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News
Coppa Club confirms Maidenhead plans
Coppa Club has confirmed it is to open a new site next summer in Maidenhead’s town centre.
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News
SSP agrees to acquire German travel concessions firm
SSP Group has agreed to acquire part of the Stockheim group, a travel concessions business based in Germany
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News
Tim Hortons secures first UK drive-thru
Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee chain, will open its first UK drive thru site on Bury New Road, Manchester later this month
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News
Sticks n Sushi confirms Nova launch
Sticks ‘n’ Sushi, the Copenhagen-based restaurant group, has confirmed its fifth restaurant in London, and seventh in the UK, will open at Nova Victoria next Friday.
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News
Supermarket sushi sales break the £100m-mark
Brits have spent an extra £16m on supermarket sushi, pushing sales through the £100m mark for the first time
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News
Ladies of Restaurants stage second ‘in conversation’ event
Sexual harassment and behaviour in the workplace were among the topics at Ladies of Restaurants’ second “in conversation” event
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News
Fortnum & Mason facing restaurant staffing problem
Fortnum & Mason’s chief executive Ewan Venters said that the business was already struggled to recruit the 300 seasonal staff
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News
Zizzi to rethink cash handling policy
Zizzi says it will reconsider the wording of its cash handling policy
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News
GK ‘not looking to exit value food’
Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand stressed the group is adapting its strategy to address a changing market
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News
Final One Sixty site sold
The remaining One Sixty site in the City has been sold to a new operator called Damien McCrystal
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Analysis & Insight
Dining out at Xmas on the rise
The amount of people that dined out for dinner on Christmas Day increased by 43% last year
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News
Brakspear confirms Wendlebury pub acquisition
Brakspear has confirmed it has purchased The Lion pub in Wendlebury, just outside Bicester, as flagged up by MCA earlier this week.