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Article
Tenanted Pub Company Summit key take outs
Progressive partnerships, big deals and pressing industry challenges were just some of the topics covered by speakers at MCA’s Tenanted Pub Company Summit last week. Here are some of the key take outs…
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News
High Court sanctions Ei/Stonegate deal
Ei Group has announced that the High Court has sanctioned the scheme of arrangement for the Stonegate deal.
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Analysis & Insight
Steve Gotham: The devil in the detail on outlet growth
Outlet numbers are a critical metric we closely study within MCA’s Operator Data Index. Recently we rechecked December 2019 numbers, reassessed growth trends and reviewed outlook announcements from operators, ahead of producing our own forecasts of expansion/contraction across 250 leading casual dining brands.
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News
Shaughnessy steps down from Chick ‘n’ Sours
Chick ‘n’ Sours operations director Ben Shaughnessy has stepped down after just 18 months in the role, MCA understands.
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News
Brasserie Bar Co promotes Ferrier to MD
Brasserie Bar Co’s chief commercial officer Richard Ferrier has been promoted to managing director, MCA understands.
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News
New distillery concept takes former Jamie’s site
A new gin distillery concept, 1751 Distillery Bar & Kitchen, has opened in the former Jamie’s Italian site on More London Place.
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News
Shep Neame: ‘We had to challenge ourselves to survive’
Shepherd Neame CEO Jonathan Neame has spoken of his family brewery’s transition from “male, stale and clunky” brand, to modern and metropolitan pub operator.
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News
Emma McClarkin: BBPA and UKH are “much stronger together”
The British Beer and Pub Association and UK Hospitality are “much stronger together,” Emma McClarkin, BBPA CEO told delegates at MCA’s Tenanted Pub Company Summit yesterday.
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News
UKH urges Government to “act swiftly” on business rates
UK Hospitality has welcomed the Government’s statement on the impact of business rates but has urged it to act swiftly.
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News
Pure kicks off airport strategy with Gatwick launch
Pure has lined up its first airport site, in Gatwick’s North Terminal, as it looks to expand in the travel hub sector.
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News
Dip & Flip out, Smoke & Salt in at Tooting
Dip & Flip, the burger and gravy concept, is exiting its Tooting site, while pop-up restaurant Smoke & Salt to take the site.
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News
Nando’s denies unpaid work claim
Nando’s has come under fire over reports which claim staff are cleaning its restaurants without pay.
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News
Are chains offering enough Low and No?
Miller & Carter rightly wins plaudits for the impressiveness of its food and the quality of its customer service, but it also beats any leading restaurant chain competitor with its choice of Low and No alcohol beers. The steakhouse offers four, including a low alcohol beer, and a no alcohol beer, ale and cider. Across the UK’s 25 largest restaurant brands chains, four have two options, 16 have just one and four list none.
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News
Coronavirus dents AB InBev profits
AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, has forecast the steepest decline in quarterly profit in at least five years due to the coronavirus.
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News
Wagamama CEO Emma Woods on expansion, delivery, Mamago and the coronavirus
Hard, disciplined and relentless. Not the first words you might imagine when thinking about Wagamama, but you don’t deliver 8.5% upticks in a market like this just because you have a big vegan menu and smiley staff. You also need to be as tough as Japanese steel.
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News
Revolution claws its way back into growth
Negative like for like sales might not seem like an ideal trading position for the eponymous brand of Revolution Bar Group.
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News
Admiral “pleased” with performance against “challenging backdrop”
Admiral Taverns has said underlying group EBITDA rose 6.2% on the previous year to £23.7m, after it released its results for the 52 Weeks ending 1 June 2019. It also said like for like sales at its 713-strong retained estate were up 4.3%. And it said it had invested £8.1m over the last 12 months and its estate was now valued at £259.8m despite disposing of 46 pubs during the period, which reflected that investment.
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News
Humpit Hummus to roll out grab-and-go with two new sites
Venurian-backed operator Humpit Hummus is looking to roll out grab-and-go as it lines up new sites.
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Interviews
KFC’s Jo Tivers: “I love pickled and fermented ingredients - they go so well with the KFC Original Recipe”
KFC’s NPD team lead discusses the success of its Vegan Burger, where KFC plans to take its plant-based menu next and why texture is too often overlooked by product developers.