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Krispy Kreme prepares to make Scotland debut
Krispy Kreme, the doughnut retailer, is to make its debut in Scotland next February with the opening of a drive-thru site at the £4m Hermiston Gait Retail Park development in Edinburgh.The group, which is backed by Alcuin Capital Partners, will open its first Hotlight store in the country on 13 ...
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NY fast food employees in pay protest
Employees at a significant number of quick-service restaurants around New York City staged a protest yesterday, calling for higher wages and the ability to unionise.Organizers of the one-day strike — called “Fast Food Forward,” claimed that hundreds of quick-service employees had joined the protest, setting up pickets in front of ...
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Opinion
University challenge
Inside Track by Mark WingettYoung people are important. Not for the purposes of this article in a “we are the world, we are the future” kind of way, but on an economic level. They are key to numerous markets, whether that is fashion and technology or eating and drinking out.Without ...
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Operators call for 2013 business rates freeze
Leading food and grocery operator have united in a bid to urge the Government to freeze business rates in 2013.Martin Shuker, managing director of KFC, and Ken McMeikan, chief executive of Greggs, joined 12 leading retail operators in signing a letter, written by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) as part ...
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Informal eating out market to grow to £65bn
Turnover across the UK’s informal eating out market is set to grow by 3% to reach £52bn in 2012 and is forecast to rise to £65bn by 2017 with a CAGR of 4.9%, according to the latest research by Allegra.Allegra predicts that consumer spending will rise alongside increased average earnings ...
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Turnover up 5.6% across leading UK chains
The 100 leading UK restaurant chains experienced a 5.6% increase in combined turnover in 2011 an improvement on the 2.6% rise registered in the previous year, according to new research from Technomic, the foodservice consultancy firm.It found that the UK eating-out sector grew in terms of sites by 4.9% to ...
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Operators make new salt reduction pledges
McDonald’s, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), JD Wetherspoon and KFC are among the companies to make further salt reduction pledges today under the Responsibility Deal.The Department of Health has announced three new pledges to meet the Responsibility Deal’s target of delivering a 15% reduction in salt in foods by the end ...