All interviews – Page 2
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InterviewsNaan Staap aims for 10 sites in 2024
The Pakistani café brand has ambitions to open 20 UK stores by the end of 2025 and sees strong potential for international expansion, according to founder Zohaib Shahnawaz
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InterviewsMB Chicken: ‘We want to be the premier global chicken brand’
The Canada-founded chicken brand is spearheading international expansion in the UK, with plans for rapid growth with a select group of franchise partners, VP International Development Dylan Powell tells MCA
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InterviewsBP: Multi-mission, frictionless interactions top of mind
With increasing digitisation, longer dwell times and made-to-order food offers, BP’s forecourts are evolving, Jo Hayward tells MCA’s Food to Go conference
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InterviewsTaco Bell: ‘We’re still early in our growth journey’
Taco Bell is keen to expand further in the UK and sees strong appetite for the brand and for Mexican-inspired cuisine across Europe, according to general manager Ian Cranna
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InterviewsOle & Steen: ‘We were too focused on opening new stores’
Group chairman David Campbell tells MCA’s Food to Go Conference how the new UK management team will look to freshen up stores and grow transaction value from the existing estate
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InterviewsDomino’s: ‘We’re going after a day part we haven’t done before’
CEO Andrew Rennie explans how the pizza group is focussing on expanding its lunchtime business with a £4 lunch deal
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InterviewsKrispy Kreme: ‘We see plenty more room to grow’
UK MD Jamie Dunning told MCA’s Food to Go conference that the brand plans to grow responsibly and with intent, and still sees plenty of whitespace opportunity in the doughnut market
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InterviewsWingstop UK ‘being bold’ with new locations
Chief operating officer Chris Sherriff discusses the chicken wing concept’s openings pipeline, how it is utilising dark kitchens, and Wingstop’s digital marketing efforts to attract a Gen Z demographic.
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InterviewsKnoops: ‘Driving growth is about simplicity’
CEO William Gordon Harris told MCA’s Food to Go Conference the brand’s narrow focus on bespoke chocolate drinks and customer personalistion was critical to growing the business at scale
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InterviewsRichard Caring: Banishing non-doms will hurt Tories
After the chancellor abolished the 200-year-old tax status, the billionaire donor (and former non-dom) tells The Sunday Times the ultra-rich are already quitting Britain
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InterviewsChopstix: ‘The buzzword for us is value’
The Asian inspired QSR brand is aiming to capitalise on a value-led image, in line with its fast food competitors, according to head of product Elio Elia
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InterviewsFireaway Pizza aims for 500
The 160-strong pizza chain will invest in building a more user-friendly customer platform, increasing delivery speed, and developing a loyalty scheme, founder Mario Aleppo told MCA’s Food to Go conference
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InterviewsJoe & the Juice upgrades coffee offering
Chief commercial officer Thomas Evald told MCA’s Food to Go conference that the chain aspires to deliver an offer similar to speciality coffee concepts like WatchHouse
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InterviewsKebhouze sees London as key market for growth
After its UK debut on Oxford Street, the Italian-born kebab house concept sees room for 15 sites in the capital, and potential to launch in cities including Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Edinburgh
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InterviewsCornish Bakery: ‘We see more opportunities than obstacles’
The 60-strong bakery company’s strategy is to build a bigger business that thinks and feels like an independent, with a pipeline of ten additional openings scheduled for 2024.
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InterviewsBrasseria Family eyes ‘iconic’ London neighbourhoods
The all-day Italian “brasseria” concept has raised over £1.2m through crowdfunding to open a third site in South Kensington and sees potential for at least five to six sites in the capital, according to co-founder Alberto Fraquelli.
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InterviewsMcMullen’s: ‘There has been a continued positive buzz in the capital’
The Hertfordshire-based pub operator will focus future acquisitions on trading pubs and hotels in London and prime Southeast locations and reports buoyant trading in the capital as tourism and Christmas parties returned in recent months.
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InterviewsSlerp: ‘White label will dominate in the long term’
White label delivery solutions have grown in “leaps and bounds” over the past few years, chief commercial officer Zal Dordi told MCA’s Hostech
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InterviewsHow JKS is unlocking growth through the digital guest journey
The group delves into strategic integration of its reservation platform with the guest digital experience, and how this is improving operational efficiency and driving revenue growth
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InterviewsHawksmoor focuses expansion efforts on US
Founder and CEO Will Beckett said the steak restaurant group, which will open in Chicago this year, could ‘probably have a few more’ in the UK but is conscious of saturation