All Harry Ramsden's articles – Page 4

  • News

    Punch strengthens accommodation team; revamps menu offer

    2016-05-19T08:41:00Z

    Punch is planning to strengthen its accommodation team ahead of the imminent rollout of its new retail format, MCA has learnt.

  • News

    Takeaway of growing importance to Harry Ramsden’s Pubs

    2016-05-18T16:52:00Z

    Harry Ramsden’s head of pub operations, Gavin Mansfield, has told MCA the takeaway element of the group’s joint venture with Punch will be a key part of the offer going forward.

  • News

    Harry Ramsden’s to open second pub this month

    2016-05-06T16:30:00Z

    Harry Ramsden’s is to open its second partnership with Punch at the Three Bridges pub in South Queensferry, Edinburgh, at the end of this month, MCA understands.

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    News

    Punch developing accommodation model

    2016-04-27T08:40:00Z

    Punch is developing a new retail format based on pubs with accommodation, MCA has learnt.

  • News

    Harry Ramsden’s set to open in South Africa

    2016-04-05T08:27:22.730Z

    Harry Ramsden’s, the iconic fish and chips chain, is set to launch in South Africa

  • News

    Ramsden’s extends menu offering with breakfast

    2016-03-24T16:23:32.327Z

    Harry Ramsden’s has launched its new summer menu, which will incorporate breakfast and afternoon tea for the first time

  • The Pub Conference
    Opinion

    Pubco Galacticos know it’s all to play for

    2016-03-14T08:40:00Z

    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.

  • Harry Ramsden's interior
    News

    Harry Ramsden’s unveils pub model

    2016-03-11T05:56:00Z

    Harry Ramsden’s chief executive Joe Teixeira has told MCA he expects its new licensed trade format to represent a significant part of its ambitious growth pipeline.

  • Joe Teixiera Harry Ramsden's CEO
    News

    Harry Ramsden’s reveals more openings, including first ‘hybrid’

    2016-02-09T08:36:00Z

    Harry Ramsden’s has given more details of its pipeline – with three opening s planned for this month, including its first hybrid model.

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    News

    ​Benito’s Hat launches assisted-service style format

    2016-01-28T08:24:00Z

    Benito’s Hat, the London-based restaurant chain, has launched new assisted service style in its suburban high street model

  • Harry Ramsden's CEO Joe Teixeira
    News

    Harry Ramsden’s eyes 300 UK sites in five years

    2016-01-24T21:57:00Z

    Harry Ramsden’s plans to open 30 new sites by the end of this year, as part of a five-year target of 300 UK and Ireland units, M&C has learnt.

  • The Cinammon Club
    News

    Cinnamon to roll out in UK and internationally after takeover

    2016-01-22T08:22:00Z

    Vivek Singh, the chief executive of Cinnamon Collection, has told M&C the group’s new owners back his plan of rolling out the Kitchen concept club across the UK and opening a series of Clubs abroad.

  • The Cinammon Club
    News

    BRH buys Cinnamon Collection

    2016-01-21T10:53:00Z

    Harry Ramsden’s backer Boparan Restaurant Holdings (BRH) has acquired the three-strong Cinnamon Collection.

  • Pint of beer
    Opinion

    The sipping forecast for pubs

    2016-01-18T08:06:33.430Z

    With the pubs code finally set to become a confirmed statute, the largest pubcos overhauling their models and some of the country’s most familiar brands set to be reinvented or perhaps even disappear, there are plenty of headwinds for the pub sector in 2016. James Wallin examines the landscape the pub industry is likely to face during the next 12 months.

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    News

    Ramsden’s eyes further pub partnerships

    2015-12-01T08:22:00Z

    Harry Ramsden’s is eyeing further partnerships in the pub sector after parent company Boparan Ventures hired a head of operations for its new Pubs Division

  • Duncan Garrood
    News

    Punch: Retail Contracts; Harry Ramsden’s and developing surplus land

    2015-11-13T08:18:00Z

    M&C spoke to Punch chief executive Duncan Garrood following yesterday’s FY results, about the company’s new Retail Contracts; potential for new brands; scope for developing surplus land around its pubs; the move to managed and why the partnership with Harry Ramsden’s is likely to be the first of many .

  • Duncan Garrood
    News

    Punch unveils new operating formats

    2015-11-12T07:22:00Z

    Punch Taverns has revealed details of its new operating models including a turnover based agreement, its first managed house and commercial free-of-tie arrangements as well as the potential to franchise out some of its concepts.

  • Pesto owners Neil Gatt and Sara Edwards
    Analysis & Insight

    Gatt’s the way to do it

    2015-11-06T16:25:34.637Z

    Having introduced Brits to ‘tapas’ dining at La Tasca, Neil Gatt is now pursuing the continuing roll out of Pesto – the chain of small-plate Italian restaurants that he launched back in 2006.

  • Joe Texari with Mr Ahmed Hassan Bilal
    News

    Harry Ramsden's makes Qatar debut

    2015-11-03T08:00:00Z

    Harry Ramsden’s, the iconic fish and chips chain, has returned to international expansion after more than 10 years with its site in the Qatari capital city of Doha

  • News

    Harry Ramsden’s signs Home Counties deal

    2015-10-22T07:53:00Z

    Harry Ramsden’s is set for further expansion in the UK, after signed a franchise deal to open 28 sites over the next six years across the Home Counties