All MCA Insight articles in July 2020 – Page 6
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News
Road closures in Seven Dials to boost trade
Shaftesbury will implement temporary timed road closures in Seven Dials from August 3, to support tenants and encourage visitors to return to the West End.
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Interviews
Revolution Bars CEO Rob Pitcher: ‘We’ll tackle no-shows with retrospective fee’
Revolution Bars Group will be implementing a fee for consumers who pre-booking and failing to turn up, CEO Rob Pitcher has revealed.
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News
Slim Chickens to open first site under new franchise agreement
Slim Chickens is set to open its first new restaurant under a franchise development agreement with JRK.
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UK Hospitality CEO Kate Nicholls: ‘Mask rule about public perception, not science or logic’
The mandatory mask rule is primarily intended to “break down the taboo” of wearing them, and there are no plans to extend it beyond retail environments, MCA’s The Conversation has heard.
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McDonald’s reopens dine-in at 700 restaurants
McDonald’s will reopen dine-in areas from today across England following a successful pilot.
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Analysis & Insight
UK footfall growth slows
Although UK footfall continued to rise last week, its growth rate slowed slightly, according to the latest footfall tracker from Wireless Social.
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News
Foodservice spend reaches 50% of pre-coronavirus levels
The out of home foodservice market is showing clear signs of recovery as weekly spend has returned to half of pre-coronavirus levels for the first time since lockdown, The NPD Group has found.
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Government calls for evidence on business rates reform
The Government has called on businesses, business representative organisations and other interested parties to provide evidence for a fundamental reform of business rates
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News
Pubcos replicate ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme
Two weeks before the August ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme goes live, Stonegate and Oakman Inns have announced that they will be running almost exact replicas of the chancellor’s model.
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News
Wagamama announces double closure following business review
Wagamama is to permanently close two of its London sites, including its ‘noodle lab’ in Soho. The pan-Asian chain, which is owned by The Restaurant Group (TRG), says it made the decision following a review of the company’s portfolio brought about by a ‘marked shift’ in customer demand caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. As a result of the review, it has been decided that Wagamama’s Mansion House restaurant, as well as its ‘noodle lab’ test kitchen on Dean Street, are no longer economically viable, and both sites have been closed.
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News
Fernandez leaves Yo!
Yo! marketing director Luisa Fernandez has left the Japanese brand to join Universal Music Group.
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Ten Entertainment to reopen English venues
Ten Entertainment Group will reopen all 39 of its English bowling centres on 1 August 2020.
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Interviews
Inception co-founder Charlie Gilkes: Customers have embraced safety measures
Inception Group co-founder Charlie Gilkes also described how customers have embraced new safety measures, such as temperate checks and track and trace when returning to the London bar estate.
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Interviews
Deltic CEO Peter Marks: Wait to reopen ‘frustrating’ but has advantages
Deltic Group CEO Peter Marks has told how the late-night operator is in a difficult position being among the last to reopen, but that it gives consumers a chance to adapt to the new normal.
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Interviews
Five Guys UK CEO John Eckbert: Trading ‘really unpredictable and really different’
Five Guys UK CEO John Eckbert has described reopening the entire estate for dine-in as a “fairly modest, incremental step”, having remained open for takeaway for the majority of lockdown. Speaking on MCA’s The Conversation, Eckbert said keeping takeaway online meant the brand had already redesigned its store format to ...
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News
UK Hospitality CEO Kate Nicholls: High evidence threshold for local shutdowns
Local authority powers to shut down venues are “not as bad as they initially appeared”, Kate Nicholls, UK Hospitality CEO has said.
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Hospitality operators urged to provide non-smoking outdoor seating
Pubs, cafes and restaurants will be required to have both non-smoking and smoking sections in outdoor seating according to an amendment in the Business and Planning Bill.
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News
Hospitality Leaders Poll: Confidence is growing
Confidence is on the up among operators, according to the latest weekly Hospitality Leaders Poll by MCA/HIM. Last week, when asked how confident they were in the future for their business, of the 308 polled 57% expressed a level of confidence, with 11% saying they were ‘confident’ about the future, 42% saying they were ‘quite confident’ and just 3% saying they were ‘very confident’ about the future for their business. This week, of the 271 respondents, all of whom are board level operators or founders, that figure jumped to 68%, possibly as a result of the VAT cut and Eat Out to Help Out scheme unveiled by chancellor Rishi Sunak.
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News
Local authorities given business closure powers
Local authorities have been given new powers to shut down pubs and restaurants if they’re seen to pose a ‘serious and imminent threat to public health’.
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Pret launches vegan bakery counter
Pret is to launch a vegan bakery counter in its Veggie Pret stores.