All news articles – Page 1659
-
News
Fulham Shore confident in the year ahead
Fulham Shore, the new restaurant venture from ex-Clapham House Group chairman David Page, has reported a loss of £125.2k for the year to March 2013
-
NewsBunnychow secures first permanent site
Bunnychow, the South African street food concept, has will open its first permanent site in late September at Boxpark in Shoreditch
-
News
Candy Cakes set for Canary Wharf opening
Candy Cakes, the cakes and shakes concept ed by Michael Thomaides is set to open its seventh site later this year
-
NewsGreene King to ramp up Premium Rural Inns
Greene King is looking to further grow its fledgling Premium Rural Inns division and is believed to be working on a pipeline of new openings for the format
-
News
Timberyard to double up
Timberyard, the fledgling concept inspired by US ‘working cafes’, is understood to have secured a second site in central London
-
News
Bottelino’s lines up fifth site
Bottelino’s, the South West-based Italian restaurant chain, has submitted plans to open a new site in South Gloucestershire
-
News
Craze to take on Berkshire pub
Aaron Craze, high-profile chef and former graduate from Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, to open his second pub after taking on a site near Reading
-
News
Colliers strengthens leisure team
Colliers International has further strengthened its London Licensed & Leisure team with the appointment of Samuel May as a senior surveyor
-
News
BRC abandons business rates freeze call
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has abandoned its campaign for a freeze on business rates and is instead calling for a 2% cap
-
News
Tokyo Industries secures third Manchester site
Tokyo Industries, the bar and nightclub business led by Aaron Mellor, has secured a third site in Manchester
-
News
Just Falafel to introduce breakfasts
Just Falafel, the fast-growing falafel chain, is to introduce breakfasts in October as part of the continued evolution of its food and drink offer, UK and Ireland CEO Mike Biggins tells M&C Report
-
News
Young's re-opens pub with Masterchef semi-finalist
Young’s has re-opened a Surrey pub with a new food offer developed by Karl Byron, semi-finalist of Masterchef the Professionals
-
News
Knowles urges fair play on zero hours
The head of the Perceptions Group has urged the Government not to intervene over minimum hours contacts but raised concern about how they are used by some operators
-
News
Pita Pit to make UK debut
Pita Pit, the North American-based healthy fast food concept, is to make its debut in the UK in Manchester this October, with plans to roll out the brand to 24 sites over the next 10 years
-
News
TGI site closes after fire
A fire has forced a TGI Friday’s site in Edinburgh’s Castle Streetto close
-
News
Thorndycraft takes Drake & Morgan ops role
Former Novus Leisure chief operations officer Jason Thorndycraft is understood to have joined Drake & Morgan as operations director
-
News
JDW to open £1.5m Stirling pub
JD Wetherspoon, the managed operator, is to start building work on its first pub in Stirling towards the end of November, with the pub set to open in March 2014
-
News
Gross margins fall 14.3 pps since 2007
Leading analyst Simon French estimated that theoretical gross margins for operators have fallen by 14.3 percentage points since 2007, with food inflation cited as a reason
-
News
Wickwar Brewing Co up to three
Wickwar Brewing Co, the Gloucestershire-based brewer and pub operator chaired by former Morland Brewery chief executive Mike Watts, has bought its third pub
-
News
Gatecrasher undergoes pre-pack
The Gatecrasher nightclub business has undergone a pre-pack administration after finding itself unable to pay its debts, which included £3m to Barclays Bank and £500,000 to HM Revenue & Customs, M&C Report learns