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All Jamie Oliver Restaurants articles – Page 2
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NewsJamie Oliver unveils concept for Catherine Street venue
Jamie Oliver Catherine Street will open this November, showcasing British produce with ’considered yet accessible’ dishes
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NewsJamie Oliver hasn’t ‘lost faith’ in the industry
The chef has said the collapse of his restaurant chain was ”utterly devastating” - but he hasn’t “lost faith” as he pushes ahead with plans to open a new restaurant
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InterviewsJamie Oliver Restaurants aims for 200-site mark by 2027
The company is focused on international growth, while moving towards an experiential-led brand in the UK, group director Ed Loftus tells MCA
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InterviewsJamie Oliver eyes 50-60 restaurants in India
MCA speaks to Jasper Reid, MD for master franchisee Dolomite Restaurants, about trebling the celebrity chef’s footprint in India and analyses its potential for success
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NewsJamie Oliver makes UK restaurant return - in virtual form
The chef has teamed up with delivery-first restaurant group Taster, to roll out a virtual brand called Pasta Dreams.
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NewsJamie Oliver Group to open new Dublin restaurant
The chef’s global restaurant business is to open the new restaurant with franchise partner Gerry Fitzpatrick, as part of plans to grow its estate by 18 sites this year
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NewsJamie Oliver claws back £2.4m from restaurant empire collapse
Celebrity chef pockets cash pile – while suppliers are still owed millions, reports The Telegraph
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NewsNew distillery concept takes former Jamie’s site
A new gin distillery concept, 1751 Distillery Bar & Kitchen, has opened in the former Jamie’s Italian site on More London Place.
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NewsFlour power: how Padella changed London’s pasta landscape
Padella (named after the Italian for frying pan) created the blueprint for pasta-focused small plates places when it opened in 2016. Four years on, founders Jordan Frieda and Tim Siadatan face stiff competition in the space they established as they open their second London site.
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NewsHearing the voice of Wetherspoon man
What can business expect from Boris Johnson’s new administration, bolstered as it is by a solid majority and heading full tilt forwards Brexit?
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NewsReview of the Year part One
Amid a backdrop of casual dining carnage and CVAs around every corner, the industry had plenty of news in 2019. But Pizza Express delivered drama. With 490 sites in the UK, Pizza Express is a national institution. So when it announced a net debt pile of £1.1bn earlier this year, and premature rumours of its demise hit the airwaves, the country rallied itself in the way it does best these days – by keyboard.
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NewsThe Dom Walsh Awards
Our monthly columnist from The Times hands out his annual awards to brands and operators who have made the past 12 months newsworthy – for better or for worse…
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NewsJamie Oliver considering new restaurant openings
Jamie Oliver has said he would consider opening new restaurants, following the collapse of his restaurant empire earlier this year, but only after the high street has sorted itself out.
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Jamie Oliver eyes international expansion
Jamie Oliver’s international restaurant business is to launch a new all-day dining concept, Jamie Oliver Kitchen, in Bali and Bangkok.
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NewsBile-ridden, rude and downright nasty
I have previously used this column to express my astonishment at the extraordinary level of abuse aimed at Jamie Oliver over the failure of his UK restaurant business.
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NewsPizza Express: someone has got to take a hit somewhere
The appointment of financial advisors this week shone a fresh spotlight on the precarious situation at Pizza Express. The celebrity figureheads at Jamie’s Italian and Carluccio’s had already put their crises into the public consciousness, yet the prospect of Pizza Express facing the same woes is an even bigger moment. The brand is credited with creating the concept of casual dining and is the UK’s biggest and most enduringly popular restaurant brand with 490 sites.
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NewsBranded restaurant market – green shoots of recovery?
Turning tables is a long-established practice in the restaurant market, albeit perhaps one more commonly associated with times of more buoyant trading than those currently prevailing. Highlighting just how fast the fortune tables can turn in this market, I was fascinated by some recent MCA analysis looking at physical growth by branded restaurant chains across different portfolio sizes. This year, the estate bracket sub-category that is anticipated to add the most net new sites will be ‘small’ operators.
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NewsJamie’s profits plunge following restaurant collapse
Jamie Oliver has revealed the scale of the impact the collapse of his restaurant group had on his overall business interests. Pre-tax profits at his businesses, made up of Jamie Oliver Holdings, Jamie Oliver Licensing and Jamie’s Italian International, almost halved by 46%, from £14.4m to £7.8m. The business said its profits were “impacted by exceptional costs of £9.9m in the year related to the restaurant group.”
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NewsSpragg: ‘If you get your proposition right, you are going to win’
Despite the struggling seen in the casual dining sector, “if you get your proposition right, you are going to win”, believes James Spragg, chief executive, Casual Dining Group.
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NewsRestaurant insolvencies up by 25%
More than 1,400 UK restaurants collapsed in the year in the year to end of June 2019 – signifying a 25% increase on the previous year, according to the latest figures from accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young.
