All Opinion articles – Page 50
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OpinionMartin hits out at corporate governance
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has criticised bad paractice in corporate governance in an article alongside the company’s full-year results announcement -
OpinionTipping point on pay
When New York’s restaurant staff took to the streets two years ago they were voiceless workers hoping to get heard. Now they have grown into a movement at a tipping point that will have a profound impact on the hospitality industry and its workers
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OpinionAnalyse this: your shopping data
Retailers compile a lot of information from customers’ purchases. James England looks at how these statistics can add up to greater profits
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OpinionFyne dining
Liz Williams, the woman at the helm of the UK’s biggest seafood restaurant group Loch Fyne, talks discounting, the competition and chasing the grey pound
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OpinionBrewDog bites wrong target
BrewDog is once again courting controversy, this time attacking what it calls the “insidious culture around lager drinking” as it releases its own Pilsner called This. Is. Lager. Draft House founder Charlie McVeigh says he admires the Scottish company but is not impressed with its broad sideswipe against lager
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OpinionChange for the better?
Changes at the top of a business always throw up new questions and the recent moves at Novus, Las Iguanas and The Restaurant Group are no different. We also look at the move this morning by KFC that has seen it “bring on-trend street food to the high street” and why the street food sector should be far from outraged by the move
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OpinionWhat’s a McJob actually worth?
The McGloves are off in the battle over who has most say in the wages of those who work for franchisees in McDonald’s restaurants. Dominic Rushe reports
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OpinionAre craft beer shops the new-wave offie?
Can the booming interest in craft beer generate enough business to create a new off-licence sector?
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OpinionThe original punk brewer
From founding Firkin pubs to selling Capital Pub Company for £93m and helping Americans fall in love with craft beer, David Bruce has been there and done it. But with several exciting new ventures bubbling away, Bruce’s enthusiasm is as strong as ever – while the craft revival has given him a spring in his step
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The restaurant fashion victims
A trip down nostalgia lane beckons for Stephen Evans, development director at Gourmet Burger Kitchen, who looks at the restaurants he visited as a child, remembers how much of a treat they were, and questions why they have been usurped by new national brands
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OpinionMy experience as undercover boss
Carluccio’s chief executive Simon Kossoff talks about his experience on last night’s Channel 4 programme Undercover Boss
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OpinionPubs are key - I plan to protect them
Community Pubs Minister Kris Hopkins says he’s excited by his new role, and promises to be the pub industry’s champion ”across Whitehall and beyond”
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OpinionThe ‘whole population’ approach to alcohol statistics
In the following extract from his new book Culture Wars and Moral Panic, author Paul Chase, a director of CPL Training and commentator on licensing law and alcohol policy, explores the government’s use of alcohol statistics in developing policy
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Stop the theft of your secrets
A new Trade Secrets Directive law could protect your company from copycat stealing. Warren Wayne and Dr Mark Abell of Bird & Bird explain more
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Opinion10 rules for engaging the university crowd
College/university marks the first time young adults become responsible for making their own purchasing decisions, and as a result, it’s an entry point across most categories, and it’s where brand loyalties are built and sustained, says Mike Poznansky, the founder and managing director of NEATO, a Los Angeles-based collegiate marketing company
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OpinionBuilding a future for British beer
In June Mike Benner left the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) after 20 years of campaigning, to take up his new post as managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA). He talks to Roger Protz about the value of a good beer
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OpinionWhy Pret is still leading the rest
Marketing expert Mark McCulloch takes a look at some of the key touch points behind the success of Pret A Manger
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OpinionTenanted pubs - a revival waiting to happen
Reports of the death of wet-led tenanted pubs are exaggerated, and in some ways the decline of this sector has inadvertently been exacerbated by pubcos themselves. To put it right would require a change of approach, argues Simon Johnson, senior director of CBRE
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Filling in the sandwich market
Mendocino Farms has not rushed into expanding its operation, but is now finding huge popularity in the US sandwich market
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OpinionYou got that vibe?
Consumer expectations in terms of value have never been higher, a great deal in part to the high levels of offer and service currently in play across the sector, but what can mark out that experience even further?