All Opinion articles – Page 44
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Seven cores strategies behind Starbucks growth
Starbucks founder and chief executive Howard Schultz talks about the core strategies that are guiding its growth strategy, including its approach to the in-store experience to its groundbreaking digital approach.
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Pubs code: ‘Our proposals aim to strike a balance for both sides’
With the first draft of the pubs code revealed, business minister Anna Soubry sets how the code aims to work in practice.
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Riding high at Fuller’s
Winner of the marketing category of M&C Allegra Report’s Rising Stars initiative, Lucy Rider was appointed as Fuller’s content and community executive in 2013, since when she has set about transforming the company’s presence on social media and introduced a best practice approach.
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A new slice of life
Raphael Miolane became chief executive of Pizza Hut’s delivery arm at the start of the year. He talks to James Wallin about how to breathe new life into a high-street staple, the company’s fledgling Express format and how technology has become the company’s first port of call for the customer.
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OpinionForging new partnerships
Matching up landmark hotels with leading food and drink specialists is a growing – and beneficial – trend, argues Jonathan Segal, founder and CEO of global hospitality company, The ONE Group
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OpinionSector snapshot: What next for SAB InBev?
The prospect of the world’s first megabrewer inched closer to reality yesterday with the board of SABMiller provisionally accepting a £68bn takeover bid from AB InBev. The combined might of the Budweiser and Peroni producers would see them supply one in every three beers drunk across the world. But how will it change the brewing landscape in the UK and are we likely to see more M&A activity across this sector?
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OpinionThe infinite options at Piada
Taking its influence from Chipotle and a road trip to Italy, Piada Italian Street Food is a brand making big waves in the US fast-casual sector. Kerstin Kühn caught up with co-founder Chris Doody
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OpinionView from the next generation
Mark Selby, co-founder of Wahaca; Graham Hall, managing director of CAU; Jamie Barber, co-founder of Cabana and Scott Munro, co-founder of Red’s True Barbecue discussed staffing, property, expansion and the lessons they have learnt so far at this week’s M&C Allegra 2015 Restaurant Conference
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Meating the year’s challenges
Despite things not always going exactly to plan, MEATliquor’s Scott Collins tells Mark Wingett why some hindrances have turned out to be serendipitous
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Hispanic consumers flex their muscles
The booming Hispanic population in the US is leading to transformative changes across the foodservice-industry landscape. Can restaurants keep pace? Darren Tristano reports
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OpinionLickin’ KFC back into shape
Year after year the public taste for KFC saw sales climb ever upwards, until in 2013 a storm of factors reversed that process. Ruth Williams hears how a new marketing approach set about the task of rebuilding the brand
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OpinionTelling the natural story of food
Street Kitchen’s Mark Jankel was always frustrated with a lack of information about where produce came from. He tells Ruth Williams how that changed when he started his own business
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OpinionMRO: Meltdown or Real Opportunity?
The introduction of the pubs code, and crucially the Market Rent Only (MRO) option, represents the biggest shake-up of the leased and tenanted pub sector in a decade. But, as the Government begins to search for a suitable candidate for the £130k-a-year pubs code adjudicator, how is the sector preparing for the reality of legislation? James Wallin talks to industry experts to ask if MRO will stand for Meltdown or Real Opportunity.
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OpinionFlipside to the burger market
Rising cattle prices, an uptick in non-beef products and a wish for customisation are all factors in the evolution of the burger sector. Darren Tristano takes an in-depth look at the patty
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The licensing landscape
Whilst rents are indeed high and premiums larger than in every other area in the UK, partners at Poppleston Allen Clare Eames and Lisa Inzani explain the impact on London’s licensing landscape
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OpinionBuilding a pub by hand
Ever thought about building a pub by hand? I’m sure Marston’s think about it a lot due to their new build program, but what about a new entrant to the market. Up in Manchester there is a group planning to build a pub using traditional construction crafts and crowd sourced labour. n a month, when newsflow surrounding the pub sector has been mixed, it is good to see that faith in the British pub remains
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The route to happiness
Happy customers spend more. As an opening statement this sounds pretty obvious but at the moment most hospitality businesses – both in the UK and around the world – would struggle to prove or disprove it with any real evidence. That is about to change, according to Christian Nelson, chief operating officer and co-founder of truRating
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OpinionIn conversation with Luke Johnson
The prolific sector investor behind Risk Capital Partners on what it takes to be an entrepreneur in hospitality, the risks around crowdfunding, the dangers of deep discounting and passing up a certain Portuguese chicken concept
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OpinionDoggedly defiant
The BrewDog empire of beers and bars may well be continuing to grow at a rapid rate, but co-founder James Watt remains determined to hold on to the punk spirit that helped establish its name and insists there is no chance of the company ‘doing a Meantime’. He spoke to Adrian Tierney-Jones for M&C’s sister title, the Publican’s Morning Advertiser
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OpinionThe social that packs a punch
With Punch Bowl Social now gaining huge prominence in seven US states, Kerstin Kühn discovers how the core elements of food, drink and entertainment have been put together with equal billing to form an alternative concept