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InterviewsGiggling Squid focuses on larger city sites
Alongside enhancing its delivery offer, the Thai-inspired restaurant group is launching multimillion-pound investments in Exeter and Newcastle, the latter its biggest venue yet, CEO Andy Laurillard tells MCA
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NewsGiggling Squid sees record revenue but swings to loss
The Thai restaurant group said it planned to continue “a measured roll out” of its restaurants, with large sites in Leeds and York already opened in FY26 and strong pipeline of future sites already secured.
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NewsIn pictures: Giggling Squid York
The Thai restaurant chain launched in the former Banks Music Room on Lendal last week, opening a 213-cover venue spanning two floors
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Analysis & Insight‘We will be a much smaller employer in the future’: The fallout from the Budget
Reduced hours and reined in expansion plans are just some of the ways operators are tackling the significant uplift in labour costs hitting their bottom line from this month. Featuring comments from Giggling Squid, JW Lees, Butcombe Group, and Wells & Co.
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InterviewsGiggling Squid: ‘Bigger sites offer us better economies of scale’
With labour costs continuing to soar, the BGF-backed Thai restaurant group is actively looking to open larger footprint sites where appropriate, CEO Andy Laurillard tells MCA
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NewsGiggling Squid sees strong like-for-likes in 2024
The Thai restaurant group reported a 12% increase in like-for-like site EBITDA for the full year to 31 March 2024, with revenue up 4.3% for the year.
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InterviewsGiggling Squid: ‘We’re trading way ahead of pre-Covid’
After reporting a turnover of £65.9m for the year to April 2022, trading has stayed resilient through a challenging environment, MD Andy Laurillard tells MCA
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NewsGiggling Squid has ‘most profitable year since inception’
The group reported turnover for the 52 weeks to April 2022 of £65.9m, up 94.4% on 2021, with seven new restaurants having opened during the period
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NewsOpenings of the week
MCA rounds up this week’s biggest openings stories, featuring new venues from Giggling Squid, Gusto Italian, Barrio, and more
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Analysis & InsightMinimum wage hikes: ‘We are not in a position to help’
The TUC has set out plans for the attainment of a £15 per hour minimum wage rate – but operators are not convinced. Featuring commentary from Giggling Squid, 3Sixty Restaurants and Chop’d.
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NewsGiggling Squid names new exec team
The BGF-backed Thai restaurant group has shuffled its senior team, with several internal promotions, as it continues to expand across the UK
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NewsGiggling Squid COO departs
Rory Marthinusen stepped down as chief operating officer at the Thai restaurant chain earlier this month, MCA understands, following four years in the role
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NewsGiggling Squid debuts Welsh site
The new 3,000 sq ft site will open in Cardiff’s St David’s dining quarter on the Hayes, later this year, and forms part of the BGF-backed Thai restaurant group’s expansion plans
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NewsGiggling Squid: ‘highly resilient over the last 18 months’
Giggling Squid’s has a pipeline of new locations having traded strongly during lockdown, with Andrew Laurillard playing down recent talk of an initial public offering.
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NewsGiggling Squid still considering IPO
Giggling Squid is to look at its options with regards to a potential flotation early next year, co-founder and chief executive Andy Laurillard has told MCA.
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NewsGiggling Squid builds dark kitchen presence
The Thai restaurant group has continued to achieve strong delivery and takeaway sales and plans to expand its delivery-only estate alongside a pipeline of restaurant sites.
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NewsGiggling Squid: ‘We agreed rent concessions for almost all sites’
Giggling Squid successfully negotiated with the majority of its landlords, agreeing terms for short rent holidays with “almost all of them”, according to chief executive Andy Laurillard.
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NewsGiggling Squid: ‘We’ve had geography and cuisine type on our side’
The location of Giggling Squid’s estate in smallish cities and the suburbs of larger urban areas has been a huge bonus during the pandemic – alongside the portability of its dishes, according to co-founder Andy Laurillard. Speaking on MCA’s The Conversation, he explained that the business had managed to remain ...
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News‘No reticence from customers about coming out’
Early indications suggest indoors opening got off to a good start yesterday, as the much-cited “pent-up demand” came to fruition, as consumers sought refuge from the rain to return back inside hospitality venues.
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NewsGiggling Squid continues expansion
Giggling Squid, the BGF-backed Thai restaurant chain, is to open a 3,800 sq ft restaurant at Aquila Holding’s Bond Street mall in Chelmsford.