All Pret A Manger articles – Page 33
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Salt reduction pledge attracts 50 dining out operators
Around 50 pub and restaurant operators have now signed up to the Department of Health’s pledge to reduce salt in the food they serve to help diners achieve a reduction of 1g per person per day compared to the amount eaten in 2007
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NewsTesco launches new café concept
Tesco Family Dining has launched a new in-store café concept at the retailer’s Extra store in Rainham
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NewsTesco to open 100 Giraffe, Decks and H+H sites
Tesco is to open 100 Giraffe, Decks and Harris + Hoole outlets next year, the supermarket group announced in its preliminary results this morning
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Firms' suppliers should also shun zero hours contracts: MPs
Companies that have committed not to employ staff on zero-hours contracts should ensure their supply and distribution chain does that same, according to a new report from MPs in Scotland that concludes such contracts should not be used in most cases
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Tesco developing food-to-go format
Tesco is understood to be developing a high street ‘Tesco Express food-to-go’ store format as it looks to compete with the likes of Pret A Manger and EAT across the lucrative lunchtime market
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Analysis & InsightCaution: Cafe-bakeries are hot
Coffee shop and cafe brands are encroaching into restaurant and pub territory in a bid to steal market share. Are they the new face of all-day dining?
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BHA promotes app for visually impaired customers
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) is offering a 15% discount to members on an app that helps visually impaired people access restaurant menus
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NewsLe Pain Quotidien strengthens UK team
Le Pain Quotidien has further strengthen its UK head office team with three new appointments, including a new operations director and food & commercial director
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NewsSector has a 'long way to go' with organic
Restaurants and cafes have a “long way to go” in providing organic food and drink, but should consider embracing the genre more readily as the public’s appetite for organic returns, a leading campaigner on the subject has told M&C Report
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Analysis & Insight
Restaurants sell more organic food and drink
The value of organic food and drink in the restaurant and catering sector grew sharply in 2013, rising 10% to £17.5m, with increasing demand from high-street eating-out chains cited as a reason, a new report shows
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Fuller’s appoints agency to highlight food credentials
Fuller’s has appointed brand and marketing agency WE ARE Spectacular to oversee a long-term brief to make ‘Fuller’s even more famous for food’
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OpinionTime to beat the drum on jobs
There has been some fine work carried out on highlighting the career possibilities available across the sector over the last couple of years, but with the campaign to cut VAT seemingly being moved into the sidings by the Government for the time being, it is time to ramp up an issue it can’t afford to ignore, job creation. The sector just needs a figurehead to lead the way in highlighting the breadth of the careers now available
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Analysis & InsightPret leads food-focused coffee shop market
Pret A Manger, the Bridgepoint-owned group, is the branded market leader in the food-led coffee shop sector in terms of market share and turnover, according to Allegra Strategies Project Cafe13 UK report
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NewsPret appoints new FD
Pret A Manger, the Bridgepoint-owned chain, has appointed Adam Jones, All3Media’s former chief financial officer, as its new finance director, M&C Report has learnt
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Ex-Pret MD takes Virgin role
Andrew Walker, the former UK managing director of Pret a Manger, has joined Virgin Atlantic Airways as director of Service Delivery
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NewsItsu targets nationwide expansion
Itsu, the oriental chain set up by Pret a Manger founder Julian Metcalfe and led by Gerard Loughran, has plans to go nationwide after the success of its first store outside London, M&C Report has learnt
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OpinionWho will float next?
With numerous high profile flotations on the agenda, Sam Fuller, head of UK consumer at international investment bank Altium, discusses the leisure sector’s IPO prospects
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Bunnychow eyes London expansion
Bunnychow, the South African street food concept, which recently secured its first permanent site in London, in Wardour Street, has announced an aggressive rollout target of having 19 sites in the capital by 2018
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Analysis & InsightIntellectual property
As competition for good space intensifies, restaurateurs are having to become increasingly bricks and mortar-savvy. Have you got what it takes to bag that successful site asks Joe Lutrario, who talks to a number of leading property experts and operators – Scott Collins and Yianni Papoutsis of MeatLiquor, Alex Reilley of Loungers and Brandon Stephens of Tortilla
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Analysis & InsightPret, Greggs and Toby rate highly for customer satisfaction
Pret A Manger, Greggs and Toby Carvery have been named among the top performing brands and organisations in the UK in terms of customer satisfaction, a new survey shows