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    ​Acclaimed chef Sutton takes pub

    2014-02-20T07:41:00Z

    Acclaimed restaurant chef Brett Sutton has taken on his own West Country pub

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    M&B seeks head of HR

    2014-02-20T07:40:00Z

    Mitchells & Butlers is recruiting for the role of head of HR to lead the human resources strategy across its Harvester, Browns and Miller & Carter brands

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    Oakman uses app to help visually impaired customers

    2014-02-20T07:40:00Z

    Oakman Inns & Restaurants has launched an app that reads menus to visually impaired customers

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    Papa John’s appoints Fleurets' Snagge

    2014-02-20T07:37:00Z

    Papa John’s has appointed Henry Snagge, former chartered surveyor at Fleurets, as its acquisition manager as it looks to add 50 sites during 2014

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    Mood Pubs eyes expansion

    2014-02-20T07:35:00Z

    Mood Pubs, the Leeds-based community pub operator, is looking to add a sixth site to its estate this year, as well as opening the flood-hit Golden Lion in Todmorden, Lancashire, by Easter

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    D&D: UK wine spend grows

    2014-02-19T19:55:00Z

    Restaurant group D&D London has analysed sales information and gathered feedback from its sommeliers to reveal an overall growth in wine spend during 2013

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    Welcome Break confirms new brands for Oxford

    2014-02-19T19:55:00Z

    Welcome Break, the motorway services operator, has confirmed that Harry Ramsden’s, Subway and Papa John’s are to open this week at its Oxford services on junction 8a of the M40

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    Lay to leave Brains

    2014-02-19T11:18:00Z

    SA Brain, the Cardiff-based brewer and leisure operator, has announced that Philip Lay, retail director, will leave the business at the end of March, after 12 years with the company

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    McMullen's enhances tenanted pubs

    2014-02-19T08:04:00Z

    Around 70% of McMullen’s tenanted pubs have been enhanced to the standard of its managed houses following a series of “rep and deck” investments, tenant operations manager Gavin Mansfield has told M&C Report

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    Cote secures Marlow site

    2014-02-19T08:02:00Z

    Cote Restaurants, the CBPE-backed group, has secured a site in Marlow, after acquiring the Thai Square restaurant in the town

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    The Real Greek secures regional site

    2014-02-19T08:00:00Z

    Kefi Ltd, the company led by Nabil Mankarious and David Page, has secured the first site outside London for its The Real Greek brand, in Windsor

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    Everyman secures Bristol site

    2014-02-19T07:59:00Z

    Everyman Cinema will open its first three-screen cinema in the South West next year, after securing a site in Bristol

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    Government focused on calories, not sugar

    2014-02-19T07:58:00Z

    Dr Susan Jebb, chair of the Responsibility Deal Food Network, has suggested that the Government does not intend to add new pledges around sugar or fat reduction as part of the initiative

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    Carlsberg UK 'slightly down' in 2013

    2014-02-19T07:54:00Z

    Carlsberg says the UK market was “marginally down” in 2013, although it continued to strengthen its market share in the on-trade, as it predicted a slight decline in beer markets across Western Europe in 2014

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    PIRRS 'becoming more effective'

    2014-02-19T07:50:11.863Z

    A scheme aimed at resolving rent disputes between pub companies and tenants is gaining in effectiveness as both licensees and pub companies become more familiar with the service, it has been claimed

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    Fears expressed over alcohol licence fee hikes

    2014-02-19T07:50:00Z

    Industry bodies fear pubs could face huge hikes in their licence fees after the Home Office launched a public consultation on a move from centrally-set to locally-set fees

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    Harris + Hoole explores alcohol option

    2014-02-19T07:50:00Z

    Nick Tolley, chief executive of Harris + Hoole, the Tesco-backed coffee chain, has told M&C Report that securing alcohol licences for three of the company’s sites will add a further “string to its bow of services” but will only be used as an option if its complements the existing business

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    Knife & Fork up to five

    2014-02-19T07:49:52.107Z

    Knife & Fork Food, the Cardiff-based pub and restaurant operator led by Sean Murphy and Serge Luceau, has secured its fifth site

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    Elite Pubs up to six

    2014-02-19T07:49:20.973Z

    Elite Pubs, the Kent-based operator, has secured its sixth pub after acquiring the freehold of the Poacher near Tonbridge, for an undisclosed sum

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    Greggs FY to be 'broadly positive'

    2014-02-19T07:49:17.813Z

    Efforts by Greggs to improve its retail systems and processes are “firmly in train”, according to a note from N+1 Singer that predicts a “broadly positive tenor” to its final results on 26 February