All Giraffe articles
-
NewsBoparan expands presence in Spain with Lagardère
The group is opening its second Spanish site for Giraffe at Barcelona Airport, as part of a wider five-site franchise deal with Lagardère Travel Retail
-
NewsBoparan appoints new CFO
David Sayer joins the restaurant group from Magnum Brands Group as it continues its rapid expansion of the Slim Chickens franchise
-
NewsBoparan removes £10 cap on Eat Out to Help Out offer
Boparan Restaurant Group has announced it will be extending the Eat Out to Help Out offer, removing the £10 limit on half price discounts across all of its restaurant brands.
-
NewsBoparan confirms Carluccio’s acquisition
Boparan Restaurant Group has finalised its acquisition of Carluccio’s.
-
NewsBoparan poised to take over Carluccio’s
Boparan Restaurant Group is poised to buy Carluccio’s out of administration, Sky News reports.
-
NewsBRG closes Ed’s and Giraffe, Slim Chickens still open
Boparan Restaurant Group, the operator behind Giraffe, Ed’s Easy Diner and Slim Chickens, has announced the closure of all sites under its Giraffe and Ed’s brands.
-
NewsGreggs and Wingstop to share former Giraffe Bluewater site
Greggs has been lined up to share a former Giraffe unit with Wingstop in Kent’s Bluewater shopping centre.
-
NewsGiraffe co-founder Russel Joffe dies
Giraffe co-founder Russel Joffe has died aged 62, his family has confirmed.
-
NewsSlim Chickens accelerates South Coast expansion
Slim Chickens, the Boparan Restaurant Group’s fast-casual chicken brand, is looking to expand across the South Coast following a franchise development agreement with JRK Restaurants.
-
NewsBoparan eyes fast-track rollout of Slim Chickens
Boparan Restaurant Group (BRG) is to enter into talks with potential partners to fast-track the rollout of its growth brand Slim Chickens.
-
NewsBoparan swaps Ed’s for Slim’s at Bluewater
Boparan Restaurant Group is opening its seventh Slim Chickens in Bluewater shopping centre in Kent next month.
-
NewsJoffe family business narrows losses
Laurel Canyon Ventures, the Joffe family business, narrowed its losses to £52,593 in the year to 31 March 2019.
-
NewsGunwharf Quays – Restaurant and retail therapy a plenty!
With more than 30 bars, cafés and restaurants (as well as over 90 shops) Gunwharf Quays offers an abundance of opportunities for plenty of remedial treatment. Supported by its impressive waterfront location, attractive design and assorted leisure-related reasons to visit, Gunwharf Quays is one of the UK’s finest outlet shopping centres. So amongst some Christmas shopping, I was keen to see how it is using its extensive assortment of Food & Beverage purveyors to both restore weary shoppers as well as to act as a footfall driver in its own right. But also, and more critically, I was keener to see some something new and surprising.
-
NewsThe Dom Walsh Awards
Our monthly columnist from The Times hands out his annual awards to brands and operators who have made the past 12 months newsworthy – for better or for worse…
-
NewsAnstey departs Joffe family business
Joffe family mainstay Sam Anstey has resigned as operations director to peruse new opportunities, MCA understands.
-
NewsWingstop secures Bluewater site; partners with XBox
Wingstop UK has secured its third UK site, and will open at Bluewater in Kent, in collaboration with Microsoft XBox, in early 2020.
-
NewsDeliveroo launches click and collect service
Deliveroo has launched its long-awaited click and collect service, Pickup, which is currently available from 13 cities in the UK.
-
OpinionSlim Chickens: ‘We now want to do a whole lot more’
The UK is not short of US-imported fast casual restaurant concepts – Five Guys, Wahlburgers, Shake Shack and Wingstop to name just a few contemporary examples.
-
NewsSlim Chickens trading well above expectations
American fast-casual brand Slim Chickens has been trading “well above expectations”, Boparan Restaurant Group’s chief executive Tom Crowley has told MCA.
-
Analysis & InsightIs grocery retail disruption of foodservice fake news?
The news that Sainsbury’s is the first UK supermarket to offer customers hot takeaways via Deliveroo struck me as further indication of the perseverance of the supermarkets to claim more of the foodservice pound.