All Pret A Manger articles – Page 28
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 12-13 September
Top story Yo! Sushi heads for cut-price Mayfair deal A recently launched investment firm has become the new frontrunner to buy Yo! Sushi in a cut-price deal worth less than £100m. Mayfair Equity Partners has replaced Inflexion as the most likely buyer of the UK’s biggest Japanese restaurant group. Sources ...
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Analysis & InsightSector brands make top 100 customer experience list
A number of leading sector operators have been included in this year’s best brands for customer experience list collated by KPMG Nunwood
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News
Preto eyes further growth, launches new concept
Rodizio Preto, the London-based Brazilian steakhouse operator, has lined up two regional sites as it looks to become a nationwide brand
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News
Operators call for government to take lead on litter
Operators, including Pret a Manger, have signed an open letter to the Government urging it to take a firm lead on UK litter
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NewsBorel suggests staggered reduction in VAT
The VAT Club’s Jacques Borel has put forward a plan to the Government for a staggered reduction in the level of the tax for hospitality businesses.
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Analysis & InsightThe lunch crunch
We would appear to be set for a wave of lunchtime sector M&A. However, there are a number of reasons why any M&A glut may be a little less frenzied than was the case with the restaurant sector, argues Sam Fuller of Altium Capital
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Analysis & InsightFood to go market to be worth £7.8bn
The food-to-go mission value to the UK’s convenience store sector is set to be grow from £4.8bn this year to £7.8bn by 2020
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Analysis & InsightFocused on being simply the best
Forty one years on from managing Whitbread’s Bull Inn in the village of Barming, near Maidstone, Kent, Ian Payne, the chairman of Stonegate Pub Company, is still as enthusiastic about the pub sector as he ever has been
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News
Vital Ingredient launches loyalty card
Vital Ingredient has launched its first loyalty card called Club Vital
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NewsAbokado secures £2.6m funding
Abokado, the London-based chain of healthy food bars, has secured £2.6m of funding to accelerate its growth plans.
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NewsPret mulls trial of vegetarian-only store
Pret A Manger chief executive Clive Schlee has said he is considering ‘testing the waters’ of operating a vegetarian-only restaurant by trialling the concept at one of its stores next summer.
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Analysis & InsightEmployees rank Greggs as best employer
Bakery chain Greggs came top of an online poll of the best high street eateries to work for, according to feedback from its employees that put McDonald’s at the bottom
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Bridgepoint confirms discount card club deals
Bridgepoint, the backer of Pret A Manger and the Azzurri Group, has confirmed it has backed the management buyouts of tastecard and the Gourmet Society
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NewsPret CEO moots vegetarian store
Pret A Manger chief executive Clive Schlee, has suggested opening a store selling only vegetarian fare.
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Grab plans to open 10 more sites in 2016
Thai street food concept Grab is planning to open 10 more restaurants in 2016.
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NewsPret opens latest school leavers programme
Pret a Manger is launching its school leaver programmer to recruit a further 35 students to take part in its training and support scheme
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Diary
Diary: GK; Drake & Morgan; Turtle Bay; and Clive Watson
In this week’s Diary we ask how many Clive Watsons it takes to complete a pub deal, have a look at the new Drake & Morgan site and find out where you can find out which city spends the most on beer.
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NewsFred’s ends Tesco link up
Fred’s Food Construction has ended its association with Tesco, as it looks to eventually grow as a standalone venture
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Diary
Diary: Pret, Deltic, Enterprise Inns and St Austell
In this week’s Diary we hear about some ‘interesting’ results from Pret’s evenings trial, look at trends in the late-night sector and get Rupert Clevely’s first impressions of the debut site he will develop with Enterprise Inns. All that and some truly awful beer and music-related puns
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Opinion
Melting pot
Chicago-based Potbelly comes to the UK this month to discover whether consumers here have the stomach for a premium toasted sandwich chain. Can it do for sandwiches what Shake Shack and Five Guys did for burgers in the UK?