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  • Welcome Break Birchanger
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    ​Welcome Break to roll out new design

    2014-09-30T12:28:00Z

    Welcome Break is to roll out its new design featuring a more premium food court across all its 27 motorway service stations after year-on-year sales at the first site for the format grew 15%

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    Neill to chair Café Pistou venture

    2014-09-30T08:00:00Z

    Ian Neill, the former Wagamama chief executive, has taken the role of chairman of Café Pistou, the fledgling all-day Provencal brasserie concept

  • Franco Manca
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    Franco Manca secures central London double

    2014-09-30T07:58:00Z

    Franco Manca, the pizza chain led by David Page and Italian chef Giuseppe Mascoli, has secured two central London sites for openings next year

  • Lola Lo
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    Eclectic FY PBT up 10%

    2014-09-30T07:57:00Z

    Eclectic has reported a 10% rise in full-year pre-tax profit for the 52 weeks to 29 June, a year in which revenue on continuing operations climbed 11.7% to £23m

  • Jason Manford
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    Comedian Manford and Momo's Elphick form comedy club venture

    2014-09-30T07:56:00Z

    High profile comedian Jason Manford and David Elphick, the former managing director of comedy brand Jongleurs, have founded a new venture to operate comedy clubs across the UK, M&C Report has learnt

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    City Pub Co secures Covent Garden site

    2014-09-30T07:52:00Z

    City Pub Company, the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)-funded group, has secured its sixth site in London, in Covent Garden

  • James Baer of Amber Taverns
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    Four more for Amber

    2014-09-30T07:52:00Z

    Amber Taverns, the fast-growing operator of wet-led community pubs, has continued its expansion with the addition of a further four sites, M&C Report has learnt

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    Wandsworth looks to protect pubs and curb fast food outlets

    2014-09-30T07:48:00Z

    Wandsworth Council in south London is proposing new powers to stop pubs being converted into shops while also restricting new openings of fast food outlets

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    Positive signs for south west pub market

    2014-09-30T07:46:00Z

    The south west pub market is continuing to show “positive signs of recovery”, with 34% of buyers new to the sector, latest research from Christie & Co has revealed

  • Giggling Squid
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    Giggling Squid in talks for expansion

    2014-09-30T07:44:00Z

    Giggling Squid, the fast growing Thai restaurant group, is currently in discussions on five sites as it prepares to open in Salisbury and Bristol, M&C Report has learnt

  • Red's
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    Red’s to strengthen management team

    2014-09-30T07:42:00Z

    Red’s True Barbecue, the fast-growing smokehouse concept, is strengthening its management team as it looks for a financial director and operations director, M&C Report has learnt

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    Urbano32 secures first site

    2014-09-30T07:41:46.260Z

    Ian Wade, co-founder of Modern British Taverns, has secured the first site in Cheshire for his fledgling pizza concept Urbano32

  • Amir Chen of Apostrophe
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    Chen joins Yoyo board

    2014-09-30T07:41:00Z

    Amir Chen, the founder of London café group Apostrophe, has joined the board of mobile payment app Yoyo as a non-executive

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    Secure Trust Bank launches “alternative” hospitality lending facility

    2014-09-30T07:40:00Z

    UK banking facility Secure Trust Bank PLC has launched a commercial finance business called Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance for SMEs in the leisure and hospitality sector

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    POD to upgrade and expand estate

    2014-09-30T07:36:23.510Z

    POD, the healthy fast food concept, has outlined its plans for expansion beyond its City of London heartland

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    Flowify seeks angel investment

    2014-09-30T07:36:07.250Z

    Flowify, a software provider for the hospitality industry, is seeking angel investors to fund its restaurant software tool called Sofia

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    Rick Stein set for Porthleven

    2014-09-30T07:36:00Z

    Rick Stein, the high-profile chef, is understood to be opening a restaurant in Porthleven, Cornwall where he already has restaurants in Falmouth, Padstow and St Merryn

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    Hache Burger secures fifth site

    2014-09-30T07:36:00Z

    Hache Burger, the family-run gourmet burger concept, is to open its fifth site in London, after securing a unit in Balham

  • The Real Greek
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    Fulham Shore to acquire Real Greek, to seek AIM listing

    2014-09-30T07:35:00Z

    Fulham Shore, the David Page-led investment vehicle has announced it has conditionally agreed to acquire Kefi Ltd, the owner of The Real Greek restaurant group, for £13.9m

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    CAMRA appoints new chief executive

    2014-09-29T10:58:00Z

    Tim Page, the former chief executive of the East Anglian Air Ambulance and national director of homeless charity Emmaus UK, will take up the £75,000-a-year position on 1 November