All Jamie Oliver Restaurants articles – Page 8
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NewsJamie’s confirms it is exploring restructure
The Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group has confirmed that it is exploring plans to restructure its Jamie’s Italian restaurant estate in the UK.
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OpinionLandmark gambles on new playmaker
As it enters its eighth year of owning Carluccio’s, the Dubai-based Landmark Group has decided to make a key substitution, bringing in Mark Jones, the outgoing chief executive of Goals Soccer Centres and former head of Mecca Bingo, in a move it hopes will steady the ship and move it towards an eventual exit.
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Brunning & Price to take Beaconsfield Loch Fyne
Brunning & Price, the 52-strong, The Restaurant Group-owned pub operator, is set to further increase its presence in the south east, with an opening in Buckinghamshire. The company, which is set to soon open the Old Courthouse on the former Jamie’s Italian site in Cheltenham, has secured the Loch Fyne ...
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NewsMCA’s Big Fat Review of the Year
From Admiral’s acquisition to Zizzi’s tie-up with Sainsbury’s, we present a potted history of 2017
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Jamie’s Italian to ditch plastic straws
Jamie’s Italian restaurants has become the latest sector operator to remove plastic straws from all of its UK restaurants
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Analysis & InsightDanes refreshing new places
Danish bakery Lagkagehuset has already conquered its homeland and is rapidly building up a presence in the UK, as well as eyeing new international outposts. James Wallin met UK operations director Alastair Gordon to find out how this Danish export is bringing home the bacon
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MyVoucherCodes aquires Happiour
Happiour, the London-based food and drink deals app, has been acquired by discount website MyVoucherCodes.
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NewsJamie’s brings in advisors to consult on future strategy
Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group has brought in an external advisor to work with its new management team to help steer it through its next phase
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Jamie’s sugary drinks sales down 11% after levy
A self-imposed Sugar Tax across the Jamie’s Italian estate has resulted in a reduction in consumption of sugary drinks, a study has found.
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OpinionAssured Azzurri
While the majority of the casual dining sector, especially Italian-focused concepts, are coming under increasing pressure, the Azzurri Group, the operator of ASK Italian, Zizzi and Coco di Mama, continues to grow and outperform the market. On the back of its full-year results, Mark Wingett has a closer look at the business and talks to chief executive Steve Holmes
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Timing at the bar
It’s a buyer’s market out there at the moment, or so we are told, so why is one of the sector’s most influential and successful investors currently looking to sale his stake not one, but two, of his investments?
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Chain restaurants still failing to serve healthy children’s meals
Children’s menus at some of the UK’s leading restaurant and pub chains are still dominated by super-sized calorific puddings and unlimited refills of unhealthy sugary drinks – undermining efforts to tackle the obesity crisis, according to a new report.
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Jamie’s Italian closes Istanbul site
The Jamie’s Italian at Istanbul’s Zorlu Center has gone bankrupt, closing down at the end of September
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Leon co-founders awarded Sustainability Hero award
John Vincent and Henry Dimbleby, the co-founders of Leon, won Raymond Blanc’s Sustainability Hero award at yesterday’s SRA ‘Food Made Good’ awards
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Cunningham steps down as Herman ze German MD
Craig Cunningham has stepped down as managing director of Herman ze German, the bratwurst concept, after just four months in the role
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OpinionOliver decides to twist
As of this morning, the man who did more than most to build Jamie Oliver’s restaurant empire can finally take a break from the constant scrutiny and let others worry about where the business is headed
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NewsBlagden steps down as CEO of Jamie Oliver’s restaurants
Simon Blagden has stepped down as chief executive of Jamie Oliver’s restaurant empire.
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NewsJamie’s Italian posts FY loss
After a £10.9m hit from closing six sites at the start of this year, Jamie’s Italian slumped from a full-year pre-tax profit of £2.4m to a loss of £9.9m
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Oliver to launch his first Deli in Asia
Jamie Oliver is to launch his Jamie’s Deli brand in Asia with the opening of a site in Harbour City, Hong Kong, next month
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Jamie's teams up with Yumpingo for data insight
Jamie’s Italian has teamed up with food intelligence start-up Yumpingo for a data service the tech firm’s founder said “changes everything” for restaurant operators.
