All MCA Insight articles in July 2014 – Page 5
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News
Bagelman eyes franchise route for growth
Bagelman, Brighton and Hove’s four-strong bagel concept, has launched a franchise scheme and opened a flagship store at Brighton railway station
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News
Graydon to take up Table Table ops role
Spencer Graydon, the former operations director of Peach Pub Company, will assume a similar role overseeing Whitbread’s Table Table brand
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News
Firezza closes in on regional launch
Firezza, the London-based, upscale pizza delivery chain, is closing in on its first regional opening in Kent
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News
Vietnamese Kitchen 'actively looking' for more sites
Vietnamese Kitchen, the London-based Vietnamese restaurant operator, is “actively looking” for more sites for its evolved format, M&C Report has learnt
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Analysis & Insight
Restaurants and hotels outperform recovering economy
Restaurants and hotels were the UK economy’s star performers as UK finally overtook its pre-recession GDP peak last quarter
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News
Square Pie grows retail business
London-based pie shop Square Pie has launched its miniature gourmet pies onto the retail market through online supermarket Ocado
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News
Umbrella Project eyes new formats
The Umbrella Project, the fledgling operator co-founded by former Living Ventures, All Star Lanes, Columbo Group and All Star Lanes employee Andy Kerr, is eyeing plans to launch a fast food concept and open bigger sites encompassing different trading formats, M&C Report has learnt
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News
Bath Ales opens first Beerd pop-up
Bath Ales, the West Country brewer and pub operator, has opened a pop-up craft beer bar in Clifton, Bristol
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News
Nearly half of operators unaware of allergen law change
Almost half (44%) of foodservice operators are still unaware of the allergen laws due to be implemented this coming December, according to research by Unilever Food Solutions
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News
Kipferl raises £125k for expansion
London’s Austrian coffee house and restaurant concept Kipferl raised £125K through crowdfunding platform CrowdBnk in less than three hours, leaving it set to open its second site in the capital
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Interviews
Friday five-minute interview: Adrian Johnson, EAT
M&C Report talks to Adrian Johnson, chief executive of EAT, about his best investment, his best business decision and the best piece of advice he’s ever received
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News
Analyst corner: Nick Batram on M&B
Nick Batram of Peel Hunt retrospectively looks at Mitchells & Butlers’ third quarter trading update that saw flat sales in its food and drinks sales
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News
Peel Hunt predicts strong Domino's results
Domino’s Pizza is set to deliver strong results in its half yearly results on Tuesday (29 July), according to Nick Batram at Peel Hunt who issued a Hold recommendation and a target price of 591p
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News
Cask Marque accredits 9,000th pub
Cask Marque, the beer quality assessment scheme, has accredited its 9,000th UK pub
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Opinion
Brighton: buying some cool
Brighton has gone from a grubby seaside town to gaining an exclusive status that’s almost on a par with London. Jessica Mason looks at what makes this city tick and how to make a business succeed
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News
Arts Theatre Club takes Soho site
The Arts Theatre Club, the central London cocktail bar operator, has secured the site of the Coal Vaults restaurant and bar in Soho’s Wardour Street
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News
Noble Inns to launch bar/restaurant concept
Noble Inns, the four-strong London-based gastropub operator, is to launch a new concept, a “bar/restaurant” called Bad Egg, in the City towards the end of the year
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News
Inventive Bar Co names first head of sales
Inventive Bar Company, the Revolution and Revolución de Cuba operator, has named its first head of sales responsible for growing pre-booked sales across the group
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News
Square Pie sets out expansion plans
Square Pie, the gourmet pie shop chain, aims to have grown from its current five-strong estate to 40 UK outlets by 2018 and launch internationally
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News
Emeny: there's 'pent up demand' for good London pubs
A “scarcity” of high-quality freehold pubs in London is creating “pent up demand”, according to Simon Emeny, CEO of Fuller’s, which recently spent c£7m acquiring a pub in Covent Garden