All MCA Insight articles in May 2015 – Page 6
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News
Go reborn as street food concept
The founders of Go Food have re-entered the market with a new concept called Wolf Street Food
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Booker passing on price deflation benefit
Wholesaler Booker says the benefit it is seeing from food price deflation is being passed on to customers
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NewsPret to open first hospital site
Pret A Manger will open the doors to its first hospital location next month, in Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital
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Non-cashless payments overtake notes and coins
For the first time cashless payments have become more popular than transactions using coins and notes in the UK
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Opinion
Mixing markets takes Brains
As Coffee#1 reaches the milestone of its 50th store, SA Brain chief executive Scott Waddington talks about what pubs can learn from coffee shops but why the company is certainly not seeking to emulate Whitbread
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NewsWarm weather supports pub share prices
The M&C20 was down 0.3% this week, underperforming a 0.7% rise in the All-Share Index, as profit taking of SSP Group’s shares held the M&C’s index back, while the minutes suggesting a rate rise may be delayed from the last BoE interest rate meeting supported the wider market
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M set for Victoria opening
M Restaurants is set to open its second site later this year in London’s Victoria
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NewsRobinsons unveils latest refurb
Robinsons Brewery has reopened its Hazel Grove pub The Cock Hotel as the Flying Coach following refurbishment
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One Sixty Smokehouse doubles up
One Sixty Smokehouse & Bar, the restaurant from Michelin-starred David Moore, has secured a second venue on the site of a former Slug & Lettuce site in the City’s Stoney Lane, off Devonshire Square, which will include the UK’s first brisket carvery
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Batram: Cineworld has room for long-term outperformance
Nick Batram at Peel Hunt says that Cineworld shares have been predictably strong and expects its upcoming AGM to be accompanied by a positive update
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Sports Bar & Grill’s Piccadilly site marketed
Bar Holdings – the company behind the Sports Bar & Grill chain – has placed its site in London’s Piccadilly on the market, M&C Report understands. The six-strong group, which attracted interest from JD Wetherspoon earlier this year, has placed the Sports Bar & Grill on Rupert Street on the ...
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Analyst corner: Rollo on Whitbread
Leading analyst Jamie Rollo at Morgan Stanley says that he expects Q1 16 like-for-like sales of 5.5% from Whitbread
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NewsM&B receives graduate accolade
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has been ranked in the ‘Job Crowd’ Top 100 Companies for graduates list for the third consecutive year
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NewsWest Cornwall Pasty Co poised for growth
West Cornwall Pasty Co. has been turned around from double-digit decline to “very healthy” year-on-year EBITDA growth for its year ending March 2014, executive chairman Chris Peck told M&C Report
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NewsWelcome Break to introduce 24-hour Starbucks
Welcome Break, the motorway services operator, is to introduce 24-hour opening across all Starbucks sites in its portfolio from 1 June
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Analysis & InsightFive minutes with... Richard Cooper; The Stable
M&C Report takes five minutes to talk to Richard Cooper, founder of The Stable Bar and Restaurants, about animals in marketing and the impact the death of retail will have.
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NewsIndustry leaders back Red’s next stage of growth
Fast-growing smokehouse concept Red’s True Barbecue has secured £5m of new investment from a group of leading industry players
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Ponti's back in the black following estate trim
The Ponti Group, operator of Ponti’s Italian Kitchen and Caffe Italia, is back in the black as it prepares to post pre-tax profits in excess of £0.3m following losses of £1.7m last year, M&C Report understands
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NewsStreet Kitchen sets out ambitious rollout plan
The owners of street food vendor Street Kitchen are to open their first shop next month as part of a wider strategy to have 15 fixed sites in London over the next five years
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Yorkshire pub portfolio marketed
A portfolio of seven West Yorkshire-based pubs has been brought to the market on behalf of the administrators