All articles by M&C Report team – Page 376
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Restaurant's £18,000 wine was 'a fake'
Diners at Zafferano restaurant in London’s Knightsbridge ordered an £18,000 magnum of Petrus 1961 - expecting one of the greatest vintages of one of the world’s greatest wines - and then sent it back declaring it a fake. General manager Enzo Cassini, who had served the Petrus personally, also took ...
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Robinson's exits managed pub model
Frederic Robinson, the Stockport-based brewer and pub operator, is to exit the managed house model because of rising costs and a lack of scale. The business, which has around 400 pubs, will transfer its remaining eight managed pubs into its tenanted arm.William Robinson, tied-trade director, said: “You really need at ...
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Punch rubbishes R20 property deal talk
Punch Taverns has dismissed suggestions that it might agree a property deal with Robert Tchenguiz’s R20 as the price for securing the entrepreneur’s support for its proposed £11bn merger with Mitchells & Butlers (M&B).Tchenguiz, who has a 23% stake in M&B, had been in negotiations with the group over a ...