All MCA Insight articles in May 2017 – Page 11
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Charles Wells launches licensee networking scheme
Charles Wells has launched a new networking event for licensees – aimed at providing insight and sharing best practice.
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Opinion
What do planning changes mean for operators?
Significant changes to the way the planning system treats pubs, as part of the Neighbourhood Planning Bill, come into force later this month. Here, British Beer & Pub Association chief executive Brigid Simmonds explains how operators will be affected.
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Diageo launches Guinness Export House concept
Diageo has launched a Guinness Export House concept at Dublin Airport in partnership with retail business ARI
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Honest: Cambridge opening gives us confidence on regions
Honest Burgers is looking at further openings in the regions after the success of its first site outside London, in Cambridge
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Liberation realigns estate, Brooks leaves
Liberation chief executive Mark Crowther has told MCA the pub group’s reorganisation into a single managed and tenanted estate will support its acquisitions programme moving forward.
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UberEats: We believe we can change eater behaviour
UberEats expects to launch at a rate of more than one UK town or city a week until the end of the year.
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Be At One appoints first head of training
Be At One, the specialist cocktail bar group, has appointed Kimberley King as its first head of training
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Star investing £3m in outside areas
Star Pubs & Bars will spend c£3m developing external areas at around 100 of its pubs in 2017 – part of a £20m investment this year across its estate.
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Wolf eyes 21 sites in three years
Wolf Italian Street Food, the four-strong grab and go franchise, is hoping to reach 21 sites within three years, after securing a pop-up site in Broadgate, MCA has learnt.
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Punch free pint promotion returns
Punch has launched its latest free drink promotion, with more than 900 pubs taking part and 80,000 pints available to give away
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Deliveroo overhauls rider contracts
Deliveroo has bowed to pressure from parliament and made changes to its contracts for riders
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Café Rouge tops six-figure NSPCC target
Café Rouge has raised more than £100,000 for the NSPCC by donating 5p for every cup of coffee sold in its restaurants
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Conigliaro to open second Bar Termini
London-based bar operator Tony Conigliaro is to launch a second site under the Bar Termini name
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News
Absurd Bird lines up Newcastle opening
Absurd Bird, the chicken-led format, is to continue to its roll out with an opening in Newcastle
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Opinion
Bolt-ons key to next phase of M&A
Altium’s Sam Fuller explains why a slowdown in M&A was always going to be a possibility in the casual-dining market, and shows where the light at the end of the tunnel can be found
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News
Jamie’s Italian considers franchising for US launch
Jamie’s Italian is understood to be considering franchising as a route into the US
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Splendid one of the new KFC franchisees
The founder of Splendid Hospitality Group has become one of KFC’s new franchisees
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Focus Hospitality CEO launches Wing Wing concept
Michael Jowett, the chief executive of Focus Hospitality, is behind a new Korean-style chicken and beer ‘chimaek’ shop
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Nottingham next for Bar + Block
Whitbread is set to add Nottingham to the list of locations for its fledgling Bar + Block restaurant format
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Bridgepoint ‘appoints bankers’ for proposed Pret IPO
Bridgepoint has appointed bankers to prepare a US listing for Pret A Manger, according to reports.