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    Living Ventures in Gusto funding talks

    2013-08-12T06:52:00Z

    Living Ventures, the north west-based restaurant and bar group, is in talks to secure new funding to roll out Gusto, its high street Italian restaurant brand

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    Pembroke backs La Bottega rollout

    2013-08-12T06:52:00Z

    Pembroke, the venture capital trust, which was launched earlier this year, has backed the £5m management buyout of La Bottega, the London-based chain of upmarket Italian delicatessens

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    Beds & Bars launches online check-in service

    2013-08-12T06:51:00Z

    Beds & Bars, which operates St Christopher’s Inns hostels across Europe, has launched an innovative online check-in service for their guests, as part of a three-year technology investment programme

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    Roosters reaches 40 mark

    2013-08-12T06:51:00Z

    Roosters Peri Peri, the chicken-led fast-casual and takeaway concept, is set to reach the 40-site mark in the UK after opening eight outlets in the last four months.

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    Freedom Brewery to double capacity

    2013-08-12T06:50:00Z

    Freedom Brewery plans to double its brewing capacity by the New Year to meet future demand for its craft lagers

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    100 pubs given protected status

    2013-08-12T06:48:00Z

    Community pubs minister Brandon Lewis will announce at the Great British Beer festival on Tuesday that 100 pubs in England have now been listed by as Assets of Community Value

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    Eat to launch £1m Heathrow site

    2013-08-09T16:43:00Z

    Eat, the sandwich shop chain backed by private equity firm Lyceum Capital, is set to open a new £1m concept store at Heathrow’s Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal, in June 2014

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    Chameleon PBT falls 23.2%

    2013-08-09T16:42:00Z

    The northern England-based pub operator saw full-year pre-tax profits fall 23.2% to £84,242 and revealed that wet income now accounts for less than half of its sales

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    Pack Snack plans UK expansion

    2013-08-09T16:40:00Z

    Pack Snack plans to grow an estate of up to 30 sites in the UK & Ireland over the next five years

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    JDW brings VAT campaign to customers

    2013-08-09T16:38:00Z

    JD Wetherspoon has continued its campaign to reduce VAT for the sector by issuing a special edition of Wetherspoon News, aimed at customers, to all its pubs focused on the campaign

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    The Cuban secures Bristol site

    2013-08-09T16:20:10.867Z

    The Cuban is to make its debut in the South West after securing the former Hooters site in Bristol, M&C Report understands

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    Cote secures Reigate site

    2013-08-09T16:20:00Z

    Cote, the Richard Caring-backed chain, has secured a site in Reigate, Surrey, for what will become its 45th opening

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    Boston Tea Party sets out growth plans

    2013-08-09T16:20:00Z

    Boston Tea Party is looking to open two/three sites a year going forward and is looking to evolve its current format with a more US-style feel

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    Awards to highlight sourcing and health credentials

    2013-08-09T16:20:00Z

    Restaurant operators, contract caterers and food manufacturers are being urged to highlight their success in healthy eating provision and sourcing

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    Meyer teams up with Delta Air Lines

    2013-08-09T16:20:00Z

    Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group has struck a deal with Delta Air Lines to supply inflight meals on selected trips between New York and London

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    Charterhouse EBITDA grows 50%

    2013-08-09T16:20:00Z

    Pre-tax losses narrow for the Coal Grill and Bar operators as it confirmed plans to open five more sites over the next few years

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    WJ King eyes pub estate

    2013-08-09T16:19:00Z

    The new owners of WJ King, the Sussex brewer, have said that creating a pub estate is part of their long-term plans for the business

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    Late Knights eyes micro-pub expansion

    2013-08-09T16:14:42.580Z

    The south east London brewer hopes to have four “micro-pubs” up and running by Christmas under the Beer Rebellion brand, M&C Reporthas learnt

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    Moorhouse's MD critical of 'price slashing' brewers

    2013-08-09T15:57:10.520Z

    David Grant is urging small brewers to stop selling cheap beer, warning that competing on price is damaging the trade

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    Analyst corner

    2013-08-09T15:55:00Z

    Jamie Rollo at Morgan Stanley looks ahead to the Q4 trading update from Spirit, which is due on 5 September and says that he expects the group’s trading to have improved markedly in July and August but LfL sales to slow once capex levels normalise