All MCA Insight articles in January 2016 – Page 5
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News
The Sportsman heads Top 50 Gastropubs for second year
The Sportsman, Seasalter, Kent, has been named the top pub for food in the country for the second consecutive year at the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs Awards 2016.
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Marston’s Q1 managed lfls up 3%
Marston’s saw like-for-like sales in its Destination and Premium managed arm up 3% for the 16 weeks to 23 January with a 2.7% uplift in its Taverns managed and franchised division.
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Jackson to stand down as TRG chair
The Restaurant Group has announced that Alan Jackson is retiring as chairman after 15 years and be succeeded by Debbie Hewitt, MBE.
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News
Chiquito launches street food offer
Chiquito, The Restaurant Group-owned Mexican brand, is launching a ‘street food’ offer on its new menu.
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Electra to review investment strategy
The board of Electra Private Equity has said it is reviewing its investment strategy and policy and its structure.
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News
Tesco retreats from food to market
Tesco is to retreat from the lucrative sandwich market with the closure of its two dedicated food-to-go sites in London
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Analysis & Insight
Wake up and smell the breakfast
When it comes to eating out at certain times, lunch remains king but M&C Allegra Foodservice director of insight Steve Gotham reveals how you have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat the possibilities that a breakfast can offer
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News
Fever-Tree UK sales up 84% in H2
Fever-Tree, the tonics and mixers supplier, has announced revenue is expected to be up 71% for the year to December, to £59.2m.
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News
Harry Ramsden’s eyes 300 UK sites in five years
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.
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News
El Mexicana expands into Leeds, eyes Ireland
El Mexicana is about to expand into Leeds and will have a total estate of almost 30 sites by the year’s end, M&C understands.
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Analysis & Insight
South East Asia takes on America's casual dining foothold
Expect to see 17 new sites opening a week this year as key operators in the industry continue to expand, M&C Allegra Foodservice’s latest Outlet Growth Analysis report suggests.
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News
Prezzo secures Ruislip site
Prezzo, which was taken private by TPG Capital earlier last year, has secured a site in Ruislip, Middlesex.
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News
City Pub EIS Fund secures Whitehall site
The City Pub Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) Fund has secured the Walkers of Whitehall site, M&C has learnt.
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News
2016 will be ‘year of major growth for STK’
The One Group has signed an agreement to open an STK restaurant in Boston, kickstarting what the company says will be a “year of major growth” for the brand.
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Cote confirms Leamington site
Côte Brasserie has confirmed it will open in Leamington Spa on 1 February.
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News
BrewDog appoints People Director
BrewDog has appointed Allison Green from listed retail group B&M as its new people director.
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Opinion
Club classic is a class act
The Breakfast Club has been one of London’s best-kept secrets, but two significant openings in the past 12 months, including its first outside the capital, has edged the licensed all-day café concept into the spotlight. Mark Wingett chats to co-founder Jonathan Arana-Morton about expansion, growing pains, an aborted burrito concept and 1980s nostalgia
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News
PizzaExpress in talks to acquire Firezza
PizzaExpress, the Hony Capital-backed group, is in talks to acquire Firezza, the London-based, upscale pizza delivery chain
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News
JDW spends £3.8m on own shares
JD Wetherspoon has spent £3.8m buying back its own shares since it revealed its half-year results on Wednesday.
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BBPA creates template to lobby on beer duty
The British Beer & Pub Association has created an ‘email your MP’ tool to allow people can lobby their local representative to push for another beer duty cut.