All Pizza Hut UK articles – Page 22
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OpinionHopes and fears
M&C Report speaks to operators from across the pub, bar and restaurant sector to ask their views on the biggest challenges and opportunities for 2014
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News
Takeaway pizza pair jailed for £600k VAT scam
A pair of Hampshire businessmen, who ran pizza franchises in the south of England, have been jailed for a £600kVAT fraud
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OpinionThe odd couple
Hawksmoor founders Will Beckett and Huw Gott’s unconventional approach has resulted in one of the industry’s big success stories – but things weren’t always so rosy
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NewsSector brands dominate High St happiness list
Leading eating and drinking-out sector operators have dominated the top 10 of the latest High Street Happiness Survey, which looks into the levels of customer satisfaction being provided by the UK’s top high street brands
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News
Cosmo appoints UK head of operations
Cosmo, the Hertfordshire-based, pan-Asian restaurant operator, has appointed Thomas Pawlowski as its new UK head of operations, as it looks to ramp up openings over the next two years, M&C Report understands
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NewsYum! reorganises global divisions by brand
Yum! Brands has announced it is reorganising its business to drive brand and geographic focus combining its US and international divisions to align focus on the brands
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News
Smashburger CEO steps down
Smashburger, the US better-burger chain, which has declared an interest in launching in the UK, announced yesterday that its chief executive Dave Prokupek had stepped down and has been replaced by its president Scott Crane
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NewsPrezzo’s healthy campaign picks up marketing award
Prezzo won the ‘best marketing campaign’ for its Healthy New Year campaign at the Pizza, Pasta and Italian Good Industry Awards (PAPA) 2013
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News
Eating-out brands make customer experience 100
ASK Italian, Nando’s, Harvester and TGI Friday’s were amongst the top 100 ranking food and drink brands named in the annual run-down of the best names for customer experience in the UK
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Analysis & Insight
Domino’s most attractive brand for 18-24 year olds
Domino’s is the eating-out brand that matter most to 18-24 year olds, according to the Youth 100 compiled by research firm Voxburner
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NewsPizza Hut UK FY operating losses narrow
Operating losses for the 330-strong firm, which last week announced a £60m investment estate programme, were £4.7m last year, against £12.4m in 2011, according to The Telegraph
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Diary
Diary: Wagamama, City Pub Co, Pizza Hut, Harvey's
This week’s Diary includes a new location for Brewhouse & Kitchen, Clive Watson papped in pub with pup, F&B innovation at Gatwick, and getting back to the floor with Pizza Hut and Ping Pong
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NewsYum! to invest $10bn in emerging markets
Yum! Brands, the owner of the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell fast-food chains, along with its joint partners is to invest $10bn over the next seven years in growing its presence in emerging markets, such as China and India
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OpinionBrand focus: Pizza Hut
On Friday Pizza Hut Restaurants unveiled the first of its new-style restaurants at Crawley Leisure Park in West Sussex as part of a £60m estate overhaul that will affect more than 80 outlets by the end of 2014. M&C Report saw the new design and caught up with chief executive Jens Hofma and operations director Mike Spencer
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NewsStarbucks names Pizza Hut’s Mark Fox as new UK MD
Starbucks has named Mark Fox, former chief executive of Pizza Hut UK’s delivery business, as the new managing director of its UK operations. He takes up his new role on 6 January
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NewsPizza Hut to undertake £60m estate overhaul
Pizza Hut Restaurants, the Rutland Partners-backed group, is to undertake a £60m investment programme across its estate, which will see the introduction of a new menu, new uniforms and a new design, M&C Report has learnt
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OpinionThe campaign game
Jacques Borel’s VAT campaign is just one example of a recent trend of single-issue lobbying in the sector. John Harrington examines the trend and what it means for established trade associations
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NewsYum! Q3 UK sales rise 1%; cuts growth estimates
Yum! Brands has reported a 1% rise in UK system sales in the three months to 7 September, although “weak results” in Pizza Hut UK and across Japan were cited as the reason for a 1% decline in same-store sales in international developed markets
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News
Operators eye York’s Monk’s Cross scheme
Giraffe, Ed’s Easy Diner and Prezzo are believed to among the line up of operators poised to take sites at the Monk’s Cross shopping scheme in York, which is set to fully come online next spring
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NewsTax Parity Day raises sales and awareness
Last Wednesday’s Tax Parity Day, which saw up to 15,000 outlets take part in a national day of action as part of the campaign to reduce VAT for the sector to 5%, helped increase sales for participating operators by up to 23%, while also raising awareness of the disparity between the zero rate for food in supermarkets and the 20% VAT rate for pubs and restaurants