All MCA Insight articles in March 2016 – Page 11
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Analysis & Insight
Poll shows bars in restaurants are key drivers of visits
Research by online booking platform OpenTable has shown 61% of diners would be more likely to visit a restaurant if it had a welcoming bar area.
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News
Base + Barley eyes Bournemouth
Pizza concept Base + Barley and coffee shop and wine bar Artigiano are due to open four new sites between them over the course of this year.
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News
M&B to offer 2,000 apprenticeships
Mitchells & Butlers has unveiled plans to make 2,000 apprenticeships available over the next 12 months.
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News
Krispy Kreme plans UK IPO
Krispy Kreme UK is planning an IPO ahead of the release of the company’s US results.
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News
Row over pubs code adjudicator appointment
Accusations from British Pub Confederation chair and Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland that newly appointed pubs code adjudicator and Fleurets director Paul Newby will not be independent have been branded a ‘disgraceful set of slurs’ by business minister Anna Soubry.
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News
Wahaca becomes UK’s first CarbonNeutral company
Wahaca has become the first restaurant group in the UK to be certified a CarbonNeutral company.
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Be At One to make Manchester debut
Be At One is to make its debut in Manchester, with a site in the Barton Arcade, Deansgate.
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Great Northern reveals senior management team
The Great Northern Hotel has announced a series of senior management appointments.
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News
West Berkshire Brewery raises more than £1m towards £1.4m target
The West Berkshire Brewery has raised more than £1 million towards the company’s £1.4 million goal on capital raising platform Asset Match.
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News
TRG may see negative lfls for two years
Senior analysts have given their views on The Restaurant Group’s current performance, with warnings that it may be two years before like-for-like sales begin to rise and suggestions the group would be appealing to private equity.
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News
Telepizza aims to be no 2 UK pizza delivery chain
Telepizza is aiming to take on established rivals to cement itself as the UK’s second largest pizza delivery chain, the man in charge of the Spanish company’s international growth has told MCA.
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KuPP secures Manchester Corn Exchange site
Faucet Inn managing director Steve Cox has told MCA he hopes to open the third KuPP in Machester’s Corn Exchange towards the end of the summer.
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Former McDonald’s development director backing Mowgli
Former McDonald’s development director Peter Richards has revealed to MCA that he has invested in Indian street food restaurant Mowgli and is helping founder Nisha Katona develop the concept’s growth strategy.
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Analysis & Insight
Wild buoyed by pizza comeback
Dominic Walsh explains why Domino’s David Wild deserves praise for his transformation of the pizza business, but questions where future growth will come from. He also looks at mixed messages from the Just Eat board and why Steve Richards deserved to be named Retailers’ Retailer of the Year.
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News
JDW lfs up 3.7%
JD Wetherspoon has said like-for-like sales in the six weeks to 6 March were up 3.7%, following a 2.9% rise in the first half of the year.
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Analysis & Insight
Research reveals average sector wages ahead of NLW
Analysis of wage levels across the hospitality sector has shown that over-21s are already being paid over £7 an hour – ahead of next month’s introduction of the National Living Wage.
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News
Harry Ramsden’s unveils pub model
Harry Ramsden’s chief executive Joe Teixeira has told MCA he expects its new licensed trade format to represent a significant part of its ambitious growth pipeline.
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News
Cineworld FY retail sales up 11.3% in UK
Cineworld has reported retail revenues at its UK & Ireland cinemas up 11.3% to £107.2m for the year to 31 December with food and drink now accounting for 23% of total income.
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News
Star rolls out retail skills workshops for licensees
Star Pubs & Bars is rolling out its series of free retail skills workshops for its licensees and their key staff.