All Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) articles – Page 2

  • Restaurant
    Analysis & Insight

    Branded restaurants with strongest sales growth offer least promotions

    2019-12-20T08:11:00Z

    Top 25 branded restaurants offer seven promotions on average per brand, but those with the strongest sales growth offer an average of three, the MCA’s latest Operator Index has revealed. 

  • turtle-bay-leeds
    News

    Turtle Bay appoints new CFO and head of people

    2019-11-26T08:42:00Z

    Caribbean restaurant and bar group, Turtle Bay, makes two senior appointments to its executive team.

  • Bababoom
    News

    Bababoom passes £400k crowdfund target

    2019-11-25T08:24:00Z

    Bababoom, the contemporary kebab restaurant, has passed its crowdfunding target of £400,000, and will keep the raise open.

  • PizzaExpress Langham Place, Oxford Circus 01
    Opinion

    Change is happening everywhere

    2019-11-18T08:45:00Z

    Seismic shifts are sweeping through the sector thanks to a combination of M&A, technological developments and consumer behaviour. Who knows what’s going to happen next?

  • GBK interior
    News

    Nadauld departs GBK as losses narrow

    2019-10-29T08:13:00Z

    Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) managing director Derrian Nadauld has left his role to return to parent company Famous Brands in South Africa, MCA understands.

  • GBK exterior
    News

    GBK sees lfls up 8.6% on back of previous decline

    2019-09-11T14:40:00Z

    Gourmet Burger Kitchen UK (GBK) has achieved a like-for-like sales (lfls) increase of 8.6% for the 26 weeks to 25 August 2019. This follows a 9.7% decline seen in the comparable period last year.

  • ZAAP Newcastle-145
    News

    Sukhothai undergoes partial MBO

    2019-08-16T14:11:00Z

    Thai casual dining group Sukhothai has undergone a partial management buy-out (MBO), with the current management team joining founders Gerrard Marks and Yupha (Ban) Kaewkraikhot as shareholders.

  • mildreds
    News

    Kerr joins Mildreds as FD

    2019-07-31T07:23:00Z

    Gordon Ramsay Group finance director David Kerr has joined Mildreds, the vegetarian restaurant group, in the same role, MCA understands.

  • ZAAP Newcastle-43
    News

    Zaap Thai looking to double estate over next three years

    2019-07-19T06:30:00Z

    Zaap, the Thai street food concept from Sukho Group, is looking to open another three to four sites over the next three years.

  • ZAAP Newcastle-145
    News

    Zaap Thai to make it four with York GBK site

    2019-07-17T07:51:00Z

    Zaap Thai, the street food concept from restaurant group Sukho Group has secured its fourth site – the former Gourmet Burger Kitchen unit in York.

  • Patty and Bun
    Opinion

    Patty & Bun: 'Complacency is death'

    2019-07-10T07:49:00Z

    Joe Grossman’s London-centric chain Patty & Bun is responding to challenges in the premium burger market with two new concepts and the launch of several vegan dishes, as Restaurant magazine’s Joe Lutrario finds out.

  • GBK exterior
    News

    GBK hit by landlords exercising break clauses

    2019-05-30T07:15:00Z

    A further eight landlords have exercised break clauses in the past week on Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) restaurants included in the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) launched last October.

  • Beyond Burger at Honest burgers
    Opinion

    Bun fight

    2019-05-09T07:45:00Z

    Competition in the premium burger space is at an all-time high. Some are concentrating on getting the basics right, while others are expanding menus with novelty items. Restaurant Magazine’s Joe Lutrario investigates

  • Burgers
    Analysis & Insight

    Burger battleground in Covent Garden

    2019-05-03T07:54:00Z

    MCA market insight director Steve Gotham examines the fierce competition for the patty pound in one of London’s busiest markets and asks whether Covent Garden can be viewed as a microcosm of the wider market.

  • Crosstown City
    News

    Crosstown lines up two more

    2019-05-01T07:29:00Z

    Crosstown, the artisan doughnut and speciality coffee concept, has lined up two more sites, which will take it to 11 physical stores over all.

  • Young people eating and talking in a casual dining restaurant
    Analysis & Insight

    Time for a chain reaction?

    2019-04-11T07:42:00Z

    CVAs offer a lifeline for struggling chains. But long-term, can the very notion of a ‘quality chain’ survive this current casual dining crisis? In his monthly column for MCA’s sister-title Restaurant, Tony Naylor shares his, perhaps controversial, views.

  • Halal Guys
    News

    Halal Guys to replace GBK in Earls Court

    2019-04-09T07:16:00Z

    US franchise The Halal Guys is to replace Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Earls Court, MCA has learnt.

  • Prezzo Beckenham
    Analysis & Insight

    Big no longer beautiful among casual restaurant brands?

    2019-03-20T08:37:00Z

    Are the days of restaurant brands growing to 100+ sites really over? MCA’s market insight director, Steve Gotham, takes a look at what can be learnt from the chains that have already surpassed this milestone and who has the potential to be the next centurion of casual dining.

  • Campbell_Paul
    News

    Campbell joins Yard Sale Pizza as NED

    2019-01-29T08:41:00Z

    Yard Sale Pizza, the restaurant and delivery concept, has hired Hawksmoor chairman Paul Campbell as a non-executive director, MCA has learnt.

  • Crosstown
    News

    Crosstown launches Hammersmith, eyes travel hub opportunities

    2019-01-15T08:25:00Z

    Crosstown, the artisan doughnut and coffee shop concept, has opened a new small footprint unit at Hammersmith Broadway station, which could lead to further travel hub sites, MCA understands.