All MCA Insight articles in December 2018 – Page 6
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News
Palamon partners back sausage restaurant
Palamon Capital Partners’ Alexandre Rahmatollahi and Pilippe Arbour are backing the launch of a new sausage-specialist restaurant concept, MCA understands.
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News
Landesberg and Waney back Marylebone restaurant and bakery
Former Admiral Taverns owner Gary Landesberg and The Arts Club co-founder Jai Waney are backing a new all-day dining concept A.O.K Kitchen & Bakery, MCA understands.
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Analysis & Insight
A Novel Idea: No. 5 Optimism Over Despair
Every month, former Five Guys operations and development director Marcel Khan reads a book (so you don’t have to) and applies insight to the sector based on what he’s learned between the covers and beyond. This month: Optimism Over Despair by Noam Chomsky.
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News
Rooney Anand to chair CDG
Rooney Anand, the outgoing chief executive of Greene King, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Casual Dining Group, the Café Rouge and Bella Italia operator.
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Opinion
The pirates of pizza
As one of the newest players in the burgeoning pizza sector, Radio Alice is out to get Londoners on its wavelength. Stefan Chomka, editor of MCA’s sister title, Restaurant Magazine, meets the founders, Matteo and Salvatore Aloe, and managing director, Emma King, to discuss tapping into the UK casual dining scene and the partnership with the Azzurri Group.
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Opinion
Cup of Joe is recipe for global success
Joe & the Juice has developed from cool Copenhagan start-up to a global purveyor of juice, coffees and sandwiches. While it has targets across the world, the UK remains its key growth driver, as managing director Johny Fraser tells Mel Flaherty
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News
Hollywood Bowl reports FY lfls up 1.8%
Hollywood Bowl has announced a like-for-like (lfl) sales increase of 1.8% for the full year ended 30 September 2018.
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News
Turton departs Turtle Bay
Karen Turton, the UK operations director for Turtle Bay, has left the company after just over 18 months in the role.
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News
More than a Pub receives funding extension
More than a Pub, the group set up to help support community ownership of pubs, has received a £2.2m extension to its funding.
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News
Electric Star Pubs secures The Fellowship Inn for sixth site
Electric Star Pubs has secured The Fellowship Inn, in south east London, for its sixth opening.
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News
Signorelli and Figo join IQL development
Italian restaurant Figo and East London bakery Signorelli have signed to International Quarter London (IQL) development in Stratford.
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News
Giggling Squid poised to take on former CAU site in Leamington Spa
Giggling Squid has been granted a premise license for the former CAU site in Leamington Spa.
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News
Epic co-founder joins Aramark
Mark Austin, the co-founder of gastropub group Unique Hospitality, has joined contract caterer Aramark as executive chef.
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Analysis & Insight
Data shows strong accommodation growth across the regions
Edinburgh and Cambridge are among the winners in a booming accommodation in 2018 so far, according to the latest data.
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News
Indapubs looking to treble estate over next seven years
Indapubs is looking to expand its estate to between 10 and 12 sites over the next five to seven years, MCA has learnt.
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Analysis & Insight
Top 100 casual dining brands boost delivery offer
The top 100 casual dining brands increased their delivery availability, from 61% in 2017 to 66% in 2018, driven by fast food outlets and branded restaurants, MCA analysis reveals.
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Analysis & Insight
Delivery spend to reach £8.1bn in 2018
The delivery market is set to grow by 13.4% in 2018 to a total implied spend of £8.1bn, MCA analysis reveals.
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Opinion
Pizza pioneer
The inventor of the UK’s casual dining industry, an inspiration to a generation of restaurant entrepreneurs and the founder of what today is the country’s biggest restaurant brand, PizzaExpress, Peter Boizot, who sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 89, can lay claim to all of those descriptions and more. Here was a life, truly well lived, and one that shaped the industry as we know it, arguably more than most. Mark Wingett talks to those he inspired and worked with, including Ian Neill, Luke Johnson, Hugh Osmond and Harvey Smyth.
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News
PizzaExpress founder Boizot dies aged 89
PizzaExpress has paid tribute to its founder, Peter Boizot, who has died aged 89, saying he “launched a culinary revolution”.
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News
Second round bids due to Ei Group commercial properties portfolio
A handful of investment funds are believed to be through to the second round of bidding for Ei Group’s c350-strong commercial property division, which MCA understands has a book value of c£340m.