All Gaucho articles
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Openings of the week
MCA rounds up this week’s biggest openings stories, including Mowgli, Searcys, Roxy Leisure, The Comptoir Group and more
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Gaucho hails ‘phenomenal’ regional recognition
The steakhouse restaurant group has won over influential customers outside London by supporting local charities and attracting high profile footballers and reality TV stars, CEO Martin Williams tells MCA
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Rare Restaurants achieves 30% rise in like-for-likes
The 23-strong restaurant group reported a 38% increase in group turnover in the year to 1 January 2023, versus 2022, with several new openings over the period
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Openings of the week
MCA rounds up this week’s biggest openings stories, featuring new venues from Gaucho, Dishoom, The Botanist, and more
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Rare Restaurants confirms two closures
The steak restaurant group has confirmed the closure of M in Victoria and Gaucho in Smithfield as it looks to optimise its portfolio, with like-for-like growth at 24%
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Capco sees strong trading in Covent Garden
The West End property company, soon to merge with Shaftesbury, said it saw leasing momentum in its targeted categories, including new signings such as Gaucho
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Gaucho announces record trading and three new openings
Turnover at the Argentinian steakhouse brand has increased from £55m to £73m over the past year
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In pictures: Gaucho’s new Liverpool restaurant
The Argentinian-inspired steak restaurant has opened its largest venue outside London in the former Bank of Liverpool building
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Martin Williams: ‘London restaurants like mine need EU workers to succeed’
Writing in the Evening Standard, the Rare Restaurants CEO has called for politicians to stop “hiding behind their napkins”
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Analysis & Insight
Are you missing out on sales because your restaurant isn’t dog-friendly?
During a cost of doing business crisis, Helen Gilbert examines whether pooch-friendly policies could help attract new clients
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Rare Restaurants appoints new non-exec
Former YO! CEO Vanessa Hall joins the group as a non-executive director as it gears up for a period of accelerated growth
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Rare Restaurants appoints Clearwater International
CEO Martin Williams has confirmed that advisors have been appointed to assess the group’s strategic options
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Openings of the week
MCA rounds up this week’s biggest openings stories, featuring new venues from Formula 1, Miznon, Gaucho, Daisy Green, and more
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Rare Restaurants’ owner turns around £11m loss
Parent company Lomo Topco has announced turnover for the group, which operates Gaucho and M Restaurants, of £53m for the 53 weeks to 2 January 2022, up from £29.6m in 2020
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Martin Williams: ‘The restaurant industry is on a knife edge of collapse’
The CEO of Rare Restaurants has called for urgent government support, including a reduction in business rates and a reversal of the VAT increase
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In pictures: Riviera inspired design at new M Canary Wharf
Rare Restaurants will open its third M restaurant next week, at Newfoundland in Canary Wharf.
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Openings of the week
MCA rounds up the biggest opening news this week, featuring Wagamama, M Restaurants, Inception Group and San Carlo Group
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Gaucho and M beat target for carbon-neutral beef
Rare Restaurants will now serve carbon-neutral beef across all of its Gaucho and M Restaurants sites – two years ahead of its original 2025 target
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Analysis & Insight
Life after Covid: legacies of the pandemic
While hand sanitiser, face masks and social distancing are being kicked into touch, there are likely to be some positive legacies from the pandemic, as MCA has been hearing from operators
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‘It doesn’t even cover the cost of our Christmas decorations’
The Chancellor’s additional support measures have been described as a ‘sticking plaster’ for the sector after some operators have lost hundreds of thousands of pounds’ revenue per venue in the weeks leading up to Christmas.