All MCA Insight articles in January 2016 – Page 9
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News
Tavistock to open four venues by Spring
Tavistock Hospitality, the Sunderland-based bar, restaurant and hotel operator, is to double the size of its Sonnet 43 brewpub and restaurant estate with four openings in the next four months.
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Black Country Ales boosts output, puts five pubs on market
Black Country Ales is planning to sell five pubs in its portfolio this year, director Angus McMeeking told M&C.
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Cautious optimism returns to Scottish pub sector
Christmas trade brought some relief to Scottish pubs hit by drink driving law changes but only a third expect to grow in 2016 down to 16% in rural areas.
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Chatime wants 20 UK sites
Taiwanese bubble tea shop operator Chatime is expanding to Canary Wharf and hopes to have almost 20 stores in the UK by the end of 2016, M&C understands.
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Brakspear has doubled managed estate in a year
Oxfordshire-based pub operator Brakspear has acquired its eighth managed site, M&C understands.
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Analysis & Insight
Why size really does matter
With all eyes firmly set on 2016, Adam Hyman takes a look back at the past year to reflect on the return of big dining operations, the ongoing requirement for more staff in the sector, a need for transparency in the tipping debate and power being seized by cities outside London
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Des McDonald launching pan Asian concept in Birmingham
High-profile chef Des McDonald is launching a pan Asian themed restaurant on the 16th floor of the new Park Regis tower in Birmingham, M&C understands.
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Pret to give away 120,000 coffees
Pret has launched its ‘Make Someone Smile’ initiative, which involves 120,000 free coffees neign given away.
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Revolution Bars H1 lfls up 2.7%
Revolution Bars has reported like-for-like sale sup 2.7% for the 26 weeks to 26 December.
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Opinion
The sipping forecast for pubs
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
NHS to introduce sugar tax in hospital cafes
The NHS is to impose its own 20% sugar tax in hospital and leisure centre cafes across England by 2020, its head has said.
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Analysis & Insight
Sector lfls up 1.8% over festive period
Wet-led pubs and bars drove growth over the Christmas and New Year period with like-for-like sales up 1.8% across the Coffer Peach Business Tracker.
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Absurd Bird secures debut sites
Absurd Bird, the new concept from Splendid Restaurants, has secured its first two sites in London
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Yongho sites placed on the market
The two sites launched last year by Yongho, the healthy Asian food concept, in central London, have been placed on the market
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Las Iguanas secures ex-Strada site
Las Iguanas is set to open a further flagship site in London, after securing a site in Bloomsbury
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Titanic working with Slee to rapidly grow pub estate
Titanic Brewery is working with Punch’s former central operations director Andy Slee as it looks to double it pub estate in the next five years, M&C understands.
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Analysis & Insight
Spend per head hits highest level in December
Average spend per head per visit was higher in December than any other month in the preceding year across all day parts, the latest data from M&C Allegra Foodservice’s Eating Out Panel has shown.
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News
Freehold interest in The Botanist Marlow sold
A private investor has acquired the freehold interest of The Botanist site in Marlow, which opened last month, for close to £2m
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Blackfoot site placed on the market
Blackfoot, the pork-led restaurant launched in London’s Exmouth Market, has been placed on the market
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Government says sugar tax would need to be ‘significant’
A Government minister has admitted that only a “significant” tax on sugary drinks would have an impact on UK consumption.