All MCA Insight articles in June 2016 – Page 18
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News
MatchPint launches partnership with football charity
MatchPint, the UK’s leading sports marketing app for pubs, has announced a new partnership with charity Football Beyond Borders
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Tossed sets out growth strategy
Tossed, the healthy grab and go chain, aims to add a further 48 locations to its existing 24-strong estate over the next four years
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Deliveroo revenue to hit £130m this year
Deliveroo, the London-based food delivery network, is due to hit revenues of £130m this year, solidifying its position as one of the UK’s most-promising technology companies, writes The Telegraph. The sales figure, an internal projection the company is understood to have been shared with investors, represents growth of more than ...
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Analysis & InsightHow do you solve a problem like Frankie?
Look, it’s all too easy and unhelpful to stick the proverbial boot in when a brand is in decline, so let’s start with a few consumer feedback positives. The Frankie & Benny’s business retains valuable comparative strengths in terms of its family friendliness and cleanliness of its venues. However, of greater significance, are worrying trends in the more important reasons to visit factors of food quality/taste and value for money, writes MCA director of insight Steve Gotham
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Inception Group founders back new fast-casual concept
Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling, founders of the London-based restaurant, bar and nightclub operator, the Inception Group, are teaming up with their wives - marketeer Anneke Gilkes and nutritional therapist, Zoe Stirling – to launch Squirrel, a new all day fast casual concept. The team behind the new venture, which ...
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OpinionCleaning up?
Nut milks, avocados, rice bowls and courgetti: does the clean eating craze that’s turned ‘wellness’ bloggers into food stars have legs in the restaurant industry?
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Texas Joe’s lines up first restaurant
Texas Joe’s, the popular barbecue pop-up, is set to launch its first standalone site near London Bridge
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Brakspear to open Cotswolds coaching inn
Brakspear is to open the former Grapevine coaching inn in Stow on the Wold as the Sheep on Sheep Street.
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Sugar Hut to launch nightclub pop-up
Sugar Hut, the Essex-based business, is to launch its first ever pop up nightclub following the Simply Red concert at Chelmsford City Racecourse on 1 July
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Molson Coors creates separate sales team for premium range
Molson Coors has restructured its sales force to create a new team dedicated to its premium beer and cider ranges.
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Peach confirms boutique hotel opening
Peach is to open the first project funded by its recent £9.5m refinancing next week.
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Fashion designer Koshino to launch sushi concept
World-renowned fashion designer Michiko Koshino is to launch a new sushi concept in London later this year
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Big Easy to launch grab & go shop
Big Easy, the barbecue and lobster shack concept, is to launch its first grab & go shop later this summer
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Baer: Poor England showing at Euros could harm sector
Amber Taverns managing director James Baer has warned that while the Euros can act as a fillip to the pub sector, a poor performance by England can actually have a detrimental impact on overall trade.
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UberEats moves closer to UK launch
Uber has moved a step closer to launching UberEats, its full-scale meal delivery service, in the UK
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Bourgee builds pipeline
Bourgee, the “affordable luxury” steak and lobster restaurant concept, has begun to build a pipeline of openings, as it gears up to open its second site this summer
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Analysis & Insight
Watson: Why I’m backing Remain
Clive Watson, chairman and co-founder of City Pub Company, tells MCA why he believes the sector and the wider UK is better off staying in Europe.
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NewsETM founders backing izakaya concept
ETM Group founders Ed and Tom Martin have partnered with former London restaurant manager Caspar von Hofmannsthal to bring his Japanese izakaya concept to the UK.
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NewsTempleman to become Chop’d chairman
Miles Templeman, the former director general of the Institute of Directors, is to become the new chairman of Chop’d, the salad bar chain
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Pita Pit closes London operation
The expansion of Pita Pit across London has been placed in doubt, after the brand’s franchisee for the capital was placed into liquidation and its five sites in the south east closed