All Operators articles – Page 106
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Vietnamese Kitchen targets 3 more sites
Vietnamese Kitchen, the six-strong restaurant and deli group, is looking to open two more deli-cafes in the City and a fast casual restaurant in West London, MCA has learnt.
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Kricket to leave Pop Brixton
Kricket, the acclaimed contemporary Indian restaurant backed by the White Rabbit Growth Fund, is leaving POP Brixton to concentrate on finding a permanent site in the area.
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Mother to be a one-off in London
Mother, the Copenhagen restaurant which is coming to Battersea Power Station, will most likely be a one-off in London, with the owners more likely to opt for other international capital cities, MCA has learnt.
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OpinionSan Francisco views
Last week, MCA hosted a group of industry leaders on a tour of San Francisco’s eating and drinking-out scene. James Wallin looks at five takeaways from that trip
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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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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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Analysis & Insight
Sector lfls up 4.4% in April
The Coffer Peach Business Tracker cohort showed its strongest like-for-like sales growth in more than two years last month.
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Chatime eyes four more this year
Chatime, the bubble tea franchise from Taiwan, is on track with its growth targets after hitting 20 sites in the UK, with plans to open a further three or four this year, MCA has learnt.
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Camino secures Shoreditch site
Camino, the Spanish restaurant and bar group, will look at regional expansion as well as further locations in London after securing its fifth site in Shoreditch.
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McManus considers accommodation at pubs
McManus, the 18-strong Northamptonshire-based group, is looking to add accommodation to its estate as well as will as some major refurbishments of it free houses.
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Sharma-Jones steps down from D&M
Pooja Sharma-Jones has left her role as sales and marketing director at Drake & Morgan, MCA understands.
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McManus FY lfls up 2.5%
McManus Pub Group, the 17-strong Northamptonshire-based operator, saw like-for-like sales grow 2.5% to £11.2m to 30 July 2016.
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Le Bab looking to evolve model for next site
Le Bab, the gourmet kebab restaurant based at Kingly Court, is exploring variations on its concept for its next London site
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Usher eyes 'mature' funding options
Gary Usher, the North West chef-patron behind the Sticky Walnut, Hispi and Burnt Truffle, has told MCA he turned to crowdfunding because banks were unwilling to lend to a fledgling restaurant operator.
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NewsKochhar NRI concept is scalable in UK
Atul Kochhar, the Michelen Star winning chef of Benares, has told MCA that his causal dining concept NRI is scalable and he would like to open more if his debut UK site in Birmingham is a success.
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Burlinson departs POD
Sean Burlinson has left his role as head of food at POD, the healthy fast food and coffee shop operator, MCA has learnt.
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Warning over immigration cap pledge
High street operators will struggle to fill vacancies and businesses will suffer if the government introduces a low cap on immigration, the ALMR has warned.
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Analysis & Insight
Eating and drinking out spend down in Q1
Net spending in restaurants, coffee shops and pubs fell in the first three months of 2017 – though millennials plan to spend more in eating and drinking out, Deloitte research has found.