All Greggs articles – Page 18
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Analysis & Insight
Nuke everything and start again
New Year is a great time to start to think differently in all areas for your business. Hopefully some of the downtime (if you manage to have any) will give you a chance to reflect on the year and get planning while everyone else is partying
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News
Greggs extends delivery trial
Greggs has extended its delivery trial into the centre of Newcastle after a positive response to the service from its original base in Cobalt Business Park.
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Analysis & Insight
Food to Go accounts for 43% of all eating out visits
The Food to Go (FTG) market now accounts for over two in every five eating out occasions, the latest MCA data has shown.
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Analysis & InsightScores on the doors
The latest data from MCA’s comprehensive Eating Out Panel has revealed a strong showing for pub companies, outperforming their restaurant counterparts in terms of net promoter scores throughout the day. MCA’s director of insight, Steve Gotham, looks at some of the reasons the Great British pub is still resonating so strongly with consumers.
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Analysis & Insight
Nando’s tops restaurant brands at lunch and dinner
Nando’s cemented its status as the most popular chain restaurant at lunch and dinner with a strong performance in Q3, the latest MCA data has shown.
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News
Greggs Delivered trialled in Newcastle
Greggs is testing out a free delivery service in Newcastle with more trial stores to be announced in London and Manchester.
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NewsGreggs expects Balanced Choice to grow to over 20% of sales
Roger Whiteside, chief executive of Greggs, has said he expects the company’s lower calorie Balanced Choice range to make up more than 20% of total sales in the near future.
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News
Shop lfls up 2.8% at Greggs
Greggs has this morning reported a 2.8% increase in company-managed shop like-for-like sales for the 13 weeks to 1 October
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News
Applegreen signs deals with global health chain
Increased food sales helped Applegreen to grow profit in the first half of the year, as it opened its first site in partnership with Freshii
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News
Insomnia Coffee to grow to 12 by year end
Insomnia Coffee has announced a partnership with SPAR petrol forecourt operator Blakemore & Son Ltd as it seeks to grow to 12 UK stores by the end of 2016.
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NewsEight in 10 Greggs stores now open before 7am
Greggs chief executive Roger Whiteside has said that 80% of the company’s stores are now open before 7am as it continues to focus on driving breakfast sales.
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NewsGreggs H1 lfls sales up 3.8%
Greggs has reported like-for-like sales across its 1,600 managed stores up 3.8% for the six months to 2 July.
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Analysis & InsightDiscerning diners driving food to go growth
Food quality is the key need for food to go consumers at breakfast and lunch, trumping value, location and fast service, the latest MCA data has shown.
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News
Greggs plans to increase healthy options
Greggs has said it plans to increase the number of healthy options it offers and hasn’t ruled out putting sushi on its menu
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News
Greggs refreshes its payment app
Greggs has relaunched its ‘Greggs Rewards’ mobile payment app to be used across its c1,700-strong store estate
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NewsGreggs lfls up 3.7%
Greggs has reported like-for-like sales at its company-managed stores up 3.7% for the first 18 weeks of the year.
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NewsGBK signs for Beverley shopping centre
Gourmet Burger Kitchen is to open a unit on the Flemingate shopping centre in Beverley, East Yorkshire.
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Analysis & InsightFive Guys ranked most popular fast food chain
Five Guys, the US burger concept, which launched in the UK in 2013, has been ranked the UK’s most popular fast food chain
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News
Applegreen grew food sales 8.9% in 2015
Applegreen, the Ireland-based forecourt operator with a growing presence in the UK, has seen like for like growth in store and food gross profit of 8.9% for the year to 31 December.
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OpinionPubco Galacticos know it’s all to play for
The pub sector is emerging from a period of significant transition with difficult decisions taken by some of the biggest players in the sector on the fundamental nature of their businesses. The work on the training ground has now been completed and it is time for the sector to deliver results. In June MCA introduces a brand new event – THE Pub Conference – in which these themes will be discussed by the Pubco Galacticos – Greene King’s Rooney Anand; Enterprise Inns’ Simon Townsend; Punch’s Duncan Garrood and Marston’s Ralph Findlay. Here MCA examines the opportunities and challenges facing each, and what it means for the eating and drinking out sector.