All Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) articles – Page 8
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Opinion
Taking the hassle out of eating out
Eating out is a real social experience. It’s about being with people, whether they are family, friends or colleagues - you visit a restaurant or pub to be with people you actually want or need to spend time with. The best experience delivers so much more than food. Hopefully, the food is the highpoint of the experience
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Analysis & InsightByron and Browns named most satisfying brands
Byron and Browns have been named the most satisfying eating-out brands and Five Guys the best quality in CGA Peach’s BrandTrack survey.
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NewsGBK launches Order & Collect service
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) has partnered with Flypay, to launch an all-digital Order & Collect service via its app across its estate
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Analysis & Insight‘Grandad’ of the burger sector
Paul Campbell has been involved in the creation, development and sale of leisure businesses including trailblazing restaurant chains and health and fitness clubs. Mel Flaherty finds out more about the man who has gone on to establish private investment company Hill Capital Partners
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NewsGBK unveils “aggressive” opening plan
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) the Capricorn Ventures-backed group intends to open a restaurant each month to reach its target of 100 sites focusing outside of London, CEO Alasdair Murdoch told M&C Report
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NewsGBK to reach 100
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK), the Capricorn Ventures-backed group, has announced plans to reach 100 restaurants by 2018 including 30 new sites in the next three years
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NewsGBK secures Canterbury site
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) has confirmed it has a secured a former The Restaurant Group (TRG) site in Canterbury
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NewsNando’s Group FY turnover tops £500m
Nando’s Group saw its turnover pass the £500m in the year to 23 February 2014
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NewsGBK lines up triple opening
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK), the Capricorn Ventures-backed group, will open three new sites over the coming three months and has further strengthened its pipeline for 2015, M&C Report has learnt
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Analysis & InsightForrester set to write a new page
A handful of private equity players are currently jostling to take control of the UK arm of TGI Friday’s and tap into the expertise of its much respected managing director Karen Forrester, but where does the business go from here? Could we see a new The Restaurant Group about to emerge?
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News
Santander and restaurants sign up to card-linked marketing
Cardlytics, a card-linked marketing platform has signed up more than 100 UK retailers including Gourmet Burger Kitchen and Patisserie Valerie that allows retailers access to customers spending behaviour via the customers’ banks
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NewsGBK starts 15mins lunch menu rollout
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) has extended its 15 minutes lunch guarantee scheme to its new site in Aylesbury
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Analysis & InsightBurgers will continue to burgeon
Predicting that the end is nigh for the UK’s burger-joint appetite is akin to a 30-year-old suggestion that McDonald’s was just a fad – but the key lies in making the marketing sustainable, says Tim Lowthe
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Analysis & Insight
The selfie is dead, long live the ‘phoodie’
The selfie is on the way out, and is being replaced by a new major trend – the phoodie
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NewsNando's to open at Intu in Stoke
Nando’s is the latest operator to sign up to open at the £20m catering and leisure extension at the Intu centre in Stoke-on-Trent
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Opinion
The restaurant fashion victims
A trip down nostalgia lane beckons for Stephen Evans, development director at Gourmet Burger Kitchen, who looks at the restaurants he visited as a child, remembers how much of a treat they were, and questions why they have been usurped by new national brands
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Analysis & InsightBurger popularity 'has peaked'
The popularity of burgers has peaked, with 17% fewer burger options on menus that feature the item compared to last year, according to the new Menurama research from Horizons
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News
PizzaExpress joins £20m Stoke leisure development
PizzaExpress has been confirmed for a £20m leisure development in Stoke-on-Trent at a shopping centre on the site of intu Potteries due to open August 2015
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OpinionBrighton: buying some cool
Brighton has gone from a grubby seaside town to gaining an exclusive status that’s almost on a par with London. Jessica Mason looks at what makes this city tick and how to make a business succeed
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NewsFY pre-tax losses narrow at GBK
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK), the Capricorn Ventures-backed group, reported a narrowing of pre-tax losses in the year to 23 February 2014, as it saw turnover increase 24% to £50.5m