All articles by Finn Scott-Delany
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Analysis & InsightBuilt-up demand competes with limited outside supply
Eating out reservations on 12 April were up 79% on the equivalent Monday of 2019, Office for National Statistics data shows.
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News
Ex Eat director plots QSR return
Former Eat director Aunaud Kaziewicz is launching a new concept which he is pitching as the Cote Brasserie of QSR.
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News
Deliveroo takes ‘prudent’ approach
Deliveroo has reported first quarter orders were up by 114% year-on-year to 71m.
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Analysis & Insight
Licensed trade off to a solid start
Licensed premises in England enjoyed a reopening bounce on Monday, with preliminary analysis showing like-for-like sales up 58.6%, compared to the same Monday in 2019.
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Interviews
Mark Davies: Sky's the limit for Hawthorn
Hawthorn CEO Mark Davies has told MCA the “sky’s the limit” for the pub company when it lists as a separate entity.
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News
Just Eat orders up 96%
Just Eat processed 64m orders in the UK in Q1 2021, growth of 96% on the same period in 2020.
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News
Revolution secures new CBILS
Revolution Bars Group has secured a further £3.5m CLBILS, while its bank NatWest agreed to waive £2m of amortisation scheduled for September 2021, taking its total available facilities to £40.3m.
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Analysis & Insight
Police check due diligence on outdoor trading
Outside structures have emerged as the new flashpoint with local authorities, as operators seek to make the most of al fresco trading, Kate Nicholls has said.
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News
Clive Chesser: Outdoors opening a ‘baby step’
Punch Pubs chief executive Clive Chesser has described outdoors reopening as more “psychologically important than economically important”.
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Analysis & Insight
Rent debt: ‘There’s going to be pain on both sides’
Rent debt remains the biggest unsolved problem of the pandemic, a looming prospect which threatens to wreck the recovery of a sector before it has begun.
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Analysis & Insight
Doubt over delivery growth - poll
Only a very small minority of operators (6%) believe delivery volumes will continue to grow when dining out reopens.
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News
Orange Buffalo spreads its wings
Chicken wing brand The Orange Buffalo, which is being advised on expansion by the team behind Eggslut and The Halal Guys, has secured its fourth location in London, on Argyll Street in Soho.
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News
Ceru relocates over landlord impasse
Levantine restaurant Ceru has exited its Soho site and is relocating to Queensway, MCA understands.
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News
Big firms commit to London
British Land has hailed the letting of a large chunk of office space at 1 Broadgate as a “vote of confidence in London”.
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News
Call for evidence over commercial leases
Operators have been urged to provide evidence about their experience as commercial tenants during lockdown, as the government seeks a “carefully managed exit” from business protections.
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News
‘Daft’ pub regulations amended
Regulations which threaten to prevent pubs from taking card payments inside have been amended at the eleventh hour, MCA understands.
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News
In pictures: Jollibee new-look revealed
Jollibee has unveiled the new-look design that will be debuted in its next store opening in Leeds and flagship store in Leicester Square.
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News
Crispin takes prime Soho site
Crispin, the all-day café and wine bar concept, has secured its second site, MCA understands.
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News
No vaccine certificate - for now
Guests will not be asked for any form of vaccine certification to go to the pub for outdoors opening from 12 April or for indoors opening from 17 May, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi has said.
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Opinion
Editorial: Covid passports can’t be ruled out
Our government has hardly earned a spotless reputation for its competence, so it was perhaps little surprise that the Easter weekend’s announcement was mired in confusion and chaos.
