![FTG-206[1]](https://d36hgjhwuw81py.cloudfront.net/Pictures/274x183/9/2/9/387929_ftg2061_516512.jpg)
![FTG-191[1]](https://d36hgjhwuw81py.cloudfront.net/Pictures/274x183/8/5/0/387850_ftg1911_213806.jpg)
All Operators articles – Page 45
-
News
Just Eat delivers 500 millionth UK order
Just Eat has announced that it has achieved its 500 millionth UK order.
-
News
Carluccio’s to trial ‘formal’ evening service
Carluccio’s is to use its Richmond restaurant as a test-bed for its £10m Fresca refurbishment, chief executive Mark Jones has told MCA’s sister title, Big Hospitality.
-
Analysis & InsightDiversity is the solution, not the problem
The reality for many women who have made it to the top is that it’s a reflection of their own dogged perseverance and determination, than any real proactive measures in the industry to facilitate career progression for women. This needs to change, says Holly Addison, head of the hospitality, travel & leisure practice at executive recruitment firm Odgers Berndtson.
-
News
Patisserie Holdings sale confirmed for £13m
Patisserie Holdings has confirmed the sale of Patisserie Valerie, to Dublin-based Causeway Capital, and its sandwich shop business Philpotts to retail, wholesale and distribution firm A.F Blakemore, for £13m.
-
News
Whitbread outlines UK and international ambitions
Whitbread has used its Capital Markets Day to reiterate its belief in its “unique, vertically-integrated model” as a lever for growth and value creation.
-
News
Five Guys to replace Côte in Camden
Five Guys has lined up a further opening at 32 Parkway in Camden – currently home to Côte Brasserie, according to Camden New Journal.
-
Analysis & Insight
Diversity is the solution, not the problem
The reality for many women who have made it to the top is that it’s a reflection of their own dogged perseverance and determination, than any real proactive measures in the industry to facilitate career progression for women. This needs to change, says Holly Addison, head of the hospitality, travel & leisure practice at executive recruitment firm Odgers Berndtson.
-
News
Loungers to open two more in Somerset
Loungers has applied to open two new sites in Somerset, in Street and Wells.
-
Analysis & InsightBDO’s Top 10 predictions for 2019
Advisory firm BDO presents its Top 10 predictions for the restaurants and bars sector in 2019, suggesting this will be the year the power shift between tenants and landlords completes and that “value meals” will become the norm.
-
NewsThe Alchemist to double up in Birmingham
The Alchemist, the Palatine-backed bar and restaurant concept, is to double up in Birmingham, MCA understands. The Simon Potts-led group has secured the former Le Monde site in the city’s Brindley Place. It joins the existing site in Colmore Row, which opened in August 2016. With that venue showing like-for-like ...
-
NewsBluegrass BBQ trials Hove Editions
Bluegrass BBQ Smokehouse, the regional restaurant group, has launched a virtual fried chicken brand Saucybird, MCA understands.
-
NewsOodles Chinese opening in Bolton
Oodles Chinese, the Indo Chinese concept, is to open its first store in the North West, in Bolton.
-
News
Wolf secures Nottingham, appoints Brown
Wolf Italian Street Food, the quick service concept led by Tim Entwistle, has lined up a site in Nottingham, part of a plan to reach 25 in the next three years, MCA has learnt.
-
NewsGrabThai closes three branches
GrabThai, the Minor International concept, has closed three of its London branches, MCA understands.
-
Analysis & Insight
Going Global: Enter the dragon
In the latest in his series of Going Global columns for MCA, international franchising expert Jasper Reid looks at the prospects for eating-out brands targeting the Chinese market.
-
NewsInn Collection grows to 10
The Inn Collection Group has grown to 10 sites with the acquisition of The Queens Hotel in Ambleside, in the Lake District.
-
NewsImbiba back Farmer J
Farmer J, the health-focussed fast casual concept, has secured £1.9m of investment capital to support its London expansion. The investment, supported by Imbiba, alongside existing shareholders and business angels, comes as the group prepares to open its third site – in Canary Wharf’s Canada Place - next month. Jonathan Recanati, ...
-
NewsTop shareholder urges Just Eat to start merger talks
Just Eat has been urged to initiate merger talks with industry peers by top two shareholder, Cat Rock in an open letter to the board.
-
Analysis & Insight
Where is the next saturation point?
With the number of food to go outlets in the UK set to reach almost 150,000 this year, is the segment approaching a saturation point? And if so, what can the channel learn from the oversupply issues faced by the pub sector and, more recently, casual dining? James Wallin discusses with leading operators, as well as with MCA’s contributing editor, Peter Martin
-
NewsChopstix lines up five new sites; disposes of 23 tertiary units
Chopstix has revealed to MCA the details of five new sites to open under its eponymous brand as part of its target to achieve eight to 10 openings in the current financial year, but has also disposed of c23 units