All MCA Insight articles in June 2017
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NewsCaskade secures £30m for Taco Bell rollout
Caskade Caterers, the Taco Bell and KFC franchise business, has secured a £29.4 million funding package from HSBC to support its expansion plans.
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Analysis & Insight
Restaurant spend bucks wider consumer slowdown
Consumers are spending an increasing portion of their personal budgets on restaurants, while growth in wider spending slows, near research from Cardlytics reveals.
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GI pub ‘targeting wine drinkers’
Ken Stout, president of Goose Island Brewery, has said the group was conscious of not going head to head with British pubs when it launched its Vintage Ale House concept in London.
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Crussh and Nando’s to link up with Debenhams
Crussh and Nando’s are to become the latest operators to link up with Debenhams, to open in one of the retailer’s stores
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New US-themed concept secures Ed’s sites
Smokin’ Joes, a new restaurant concept, has been launched through the acquisition of four former Ed’s Easy Diner sites
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The Man Behind the Curtain to move to Victoria Gate in Leeds
Michelin-starred Leeds restaurant The Man Behind the Curtain is to move its restaurant to the Victoria Gate area in the city.
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Specialist chefs ‘should be on post-Brexit skills list’
A trade body for Italian restaurants has called on the Government to include specialist chef roles as key skills for the purposes of immigration post-Brexit.
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Black Sheep Coffee lines up double Manchester opening
Black Sheep Coffee, the fast-growing specialty coffee roaster and café operator, has lined up a double opening in Manchester
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Fuller’s launches new “virtual” Frontier campaign
Frontier, the craft lager from Fuller’s, is to launch a trade and consumer campaign featuring virtual reality (VR) headsets
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Hummus Bros concerned over Brexit impact
Hummus Bros, the London-based healthy eating concept, said it was concerned about the impact of Brexit of the business
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Creams sets out expansion plans
Creams Cafe, the dessert cafe chain, is to roll out 50 sites by April 2018 taking the brand to close to 100 nationwide.
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Forrester: TGI’s looking to “step it up”
TGI Fridays is continuing with its pipeline of openings with chief executive Karen Forrester telling MCA that despite the difficult market the business is trading well
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Bakchich eyes Northern rollout
Bakchich, the Lebanese healthy-eating brand, is looking to roll out across the North, Midlands and Scotland over the next five years.
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Heineken to roll out new draught dispense system
Heineken is rolling out a new compact draught dispense system, SmartDispense Cool Flow Technology
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Analysis & Insight
New opportunities as F&B property market cools down
The decisions of ‘vanguard’ restaurant concepts to step back from further expansion is giving other operators a chance to increase their coverage on more advantageous terms.
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Greek brewery hails Heineken appeal ruling
Greek brewery Macedonian Thrace Brewery (MTB) has welcomed an appeals court judgment against Heineken’s 98.8%-owned Greek operating company, saying the ruling supports its claim for damages of €100m against the brewer.
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Yea joins Equiniti board
Greene King chairman Philip Yea has joined the board of specialist technology outsourcer Equiniti Group.
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Indian Accent to replace Chor Bizarre in Mayfair
Indian Accent, the World’s 50 Best-featured restaurant concept helmed by chef Manish Mehrotra, is coming to Mayfair.
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Worldpay to merge with Vantiv in £9.1bn deal
Worldpay, the UK leading payments processor favoured by bars and restaurants, has reached a preliminary agreement to merge with US rival Vantiv in a deal which values Wordpay at £9.1bn including debt.
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NewsLeon reaches 50
Leon, the healthy, fast-food chain, will open its fiftieth site tomorrow at London’s Paddington Station