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InterviewsHero Award: ‘Rob Mitchell is the barometer of our business’
As part of the new Hero Award category at the Retailers’ Retailer Awards, MCA is profiling five senior managers who have gone above and beyond in steering their business through the crisis. In today’s profile, Drake & Morgan CEO Jillian Maclean discusses her nomination, executive chef Rob Mitchell, and why he has been so integral in preserving the business through lockdown and planning for the post-pandemic world.
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Analysis & Insight
CACI’s Chris Thompson: ‘Consumer behaviour moved forward five years in two weeks’
CACI director of location analytics Chris Thompson has outlined how consumer behaviour towards brand and place has accelerated under the pressure of the pandemic.
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News
Risk mass unemployment if furlough scheme is axed, warn business leaders
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been warned by leading business groups and trade unions that unless the furlough scheme is extended the country risks a period of mass unemployment.
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Hospitality worst hit as UK unemployment rate rises
Hospitality workers have been worse hit as the UK’s unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November 2020, new figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed.
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Karen Jones appointed hospitality representative on new Business Council
Karen Jones, current chair at Prezzo, Mowgli and Hawksmoor, has been appointed to represent hospitality on the Government’s new Build Back Better Council.
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Kate Nicholls awarded OBE
UKHospitality CEO Kate Nicholls has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list for services to the hospitality sector.
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Just Eat to create 1,000 jobs through new agency worker model
Just Eat has launched a new agency worker model for couriers, which will switch contracts to hourly pay and could create more than 1,000 jobs by March, the company has said.
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BrewDog CEO’s ‘expensive lesson’ of hiring all-star management team
BrewDog CEO James Watt has admitted it was a mistake to hire an “all-star cast” senior management team with “hearty paychecks”, after all departed within 12 months.
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Opinion
Peter Martin: Creating the playbook
When David Campbell took on the top job at Wagamama one of the first things he did was start to read. The book was The Way of the Noodle, part written and inspired by Wagamama’s enigmatic creator Alan Yau.
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Interviews
Kate Nicholls: Lockdown beyond 2 December 'inevitable'
The extension of hospitality restrictions is “inevitable” regardless of whether England’s national lockdown is lifted as planned on 2 December, UK Hospitality CEO Kate Nicholls has said.
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Boxpark to waive rent and service charges through lockdown
Boxpark has said it will waive all rent and service fees for its tenants through the second lockdown as it prepares to cease all operations once again.
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St Austell to cut 100 jobs
St Austell Brewery has announced it is to cut up to 100 jobs from its workforce.
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SEV refreshes Bounce, appoints marketing director
Social Entertainment Ventures (SEV) is investing in a refresh of its Bounce table tennis brand and launching new technology to support Wonderball, its digitally enhanced gaming platform.
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Deliveroo appoints UK business chief from Amazon
Deliveroo has appointed Carlo Mocci, formerly of Amazon, as chief business officer for the UK and Ireland.
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Bababoom appoints interim MD
Graham Ford, formerly of Carluccio’s and Bill’s, has joined Bababoom as interim MD, MCA understands.
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Hundreds join HospoDemo
Leading figures from the hospitality industry were among hundreds who converged on Parliament Square yesterday to protest latest Government restrictions on the industry.
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Over 750,000 sector job losses expected without additional government support
Over 750,000 jobs will be lost in hospitality by February 2021 without further government support, according to CGA.
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Farquhar departs Wagamama
Wagamama chief marketing officer Ross Farquhar has left the TRG-owned restaurant group.
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M&B launches redundancy process
Mitchells & Butlers has begun a redundancy consultation with a number of staff as it deals with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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New job scheme not enough
The government is facing a backlash over the new job support scheme, which pays two-thirds of workers’ wages affected by coronavirus closures.
