All Pret A Manger articles – Page 9

  • Pret, St Christopher's Place
    News

    Pret spends £20m on allergy overhaul

    2020-03-09T08:45:00Z

    Pret A Manger spent £20m last year on anti-allergy measures, including full ingredients labelling, as it overhauled safety measures after the deaths of two people who had eaten its products, The Financial Times reports.

  • Pret
    Analysis & Insight

    Steve Gotham: The devil in the detail on outlet growth

    2020-02-28T08:35:00Z

    Outlet numbers are a critical metric we closely study within MCA’s Operator Data Index. Recently we rechecked December 2019 numbers, reassessed growth trends and reviewed outlook announcements from operators, ahead of producing our own forecasts of expansion/contraction across 250 leading casual dining brands.

  • Hannah Dolan Pret
    News

    Pret: ‘When it comes to innovation, we don’t have set rules’

    2020-02-18T07:54:00Z

    Pret’s head of global innovation Hannah Dolan talks to Food Spark about food innovation sprints, the future of Veggie Pret and why the chain prides itself so much on the colour of its food.

  • GettyImages-1077538138
    News

    Steve Gotham: Recovering confidence and and accelerating growth in 2020

    2020-02-14T08:30:00Z

    Encouragingly for most, MCA predicts that 2020 will see stronger net physical increases in store portfolios across the majority of leading operators.MCA’s Operator Data Index includes over 350 branded operators with five or more outlets at December 2019. These stretch across the full spectrum of the market and account for close to 27,000 outlets which claimed modest overall year on year growth of just under 1% in 2019. We are expecting this growth rate to double to 2% in December 2020, with over 500 net new outlets to open, equating to 11 per week.

  • Women in hospitality
    News

    Peter Martin: Fairness and equality – the campaign still has a way to go

    2020-02-13T08:05:00Z

    There’s good news and bad news on the diversity front this month. New official figures show that 33% of all FTSE 100 board directors are now women, hitting the Government’s own target a year early, and up from just 12.5% less than a decade ago. That’s the positive bit – and the fact the milestone was achieved on a voluntary basis, without the need for legislation, fines or penalties, received big thumbs-up from business secretary Andrea Leadsom.

  • FoodToGo 134
    News

    Pret ‘behind the curve’ on digital

    2020-02-12T07:53:00Z

    Pret has been a “bit behind the curve” in terms of digital innovation, UK MD Clare Clough has told MCA’s Food to Go conference.

  • Food to go Conference MCA
    Analysis & Insight

    Food to Go key take-outs

    2020-02-11T08:47:00Z

    Now I might be a tad biased, but I thought MCA’s recent Food to Go conference was rather good. It’s always great to hear from operators at the coal-face, and the line-up included several interesting speakers all prepared to share some insights on how they are grappling with the opportunities and challenges of the maturing Food to Go marketplace. And yes, let’s not be in any illusion, some of the froth has come off this previous darling of the Eating Out market, with increasing signs of localised saturation only reinforcing the importance of enhancing consumer relevance. So how is this being pursued?

  • Food to go
    Analysis & Insight

    Top 10 F2G brands grow market share

    2020-02-10T08:45:00Z

    The top 10 Food To Go brands grew sales by 3.4% in 2019 to a market share of 33.6%, outperforming the wider Food to Go (FTG) market, MCA Insight reveals.

  • RROTY 2020
    News

    Retailers’ Retailer full nominees list revealed

    2020-02-04T08:37:00Z

    The finalists for MCA’s Retailers’ Retailer Awards 2020 have been announced, with the cohort reflecting a diverse and vibrant range of eating and drinking out operators.

  • News

    Benzie swaps Pure for Barkby

    2020-02-03T08:59:00Z

    The Barkby Group, the premium gastropub operator and coffee group, has appointed Douglas Benzie as chief financial officer.

  • Veggie Pret
    News

    Pret to accelerate Eat conversions

    2020-01-23T08:07:00Z

    Pret plans to have the Eat estate fully absorbed into the Pret brand by the Summer. 

  • Pret, St Christopher's Place
    News

    Pret most admired brand for eleventh consecutive year

    2020-01-22T12:58:00Z

    Pret has been crowned the ‘most admired brand’ by leading industry professionals for the eleventh consecutive year.

  • Restaurant
    News

    Looking for signs of life

    2020-01-20T08:57:00Z

    Graeme Smith and Craig Rachel look at M&A activity in 2019.

  • Coffee market
    Analysis & Insight

    UK coffee shop numbers shrink by 0.9%

    2020-01-10T08:32:00Z

    The UK coffee shop market has shrunk by 0.9% in terms of outlet numbers, following restrained investment in the context of Brexit uncertainty and tough high street trading, Allegra World Coffee Portal reveals.

  • Carluccio's new generation store
    News

    Gunwharf Quays – Restaurant and retail therapy a plenty!

    2019-12-11T08:17:00Z

    With more than 30 bars, cafés and restaurants (as well as over 90 shops) Gunwharf Quays offers an abundance of opportunities for plenty of remedial treatment. Supported by its impressive waterfront location, attractive design and assorted leisure-related reasons to visit, Gunwharf Quays is one of the UK’s finest outlet shopping centres. So amongst some Christmas shopping, I was keen to see how it is using its extensive assortment of Food & Beverage purveyors to both restore weary shoppers as well as to act as a footfall driver in its own right. But also, and more critically, I was keener to see some something new and surprising.

  • Barnaby
    News

    Pret’s chief customer officer resigns

    2019-11-21T11:51:00Z

    Pret’s chief customer officer, Barnaby Dawe, has resigned and will leave the business at the end of the year. Dawe, who joined Pret in 2018, plans to return to work in media and ecommerce where he worked at Harper Collins, Sky, The Sun, The Times and Channel 4.

  • Dinepilot iPhone XR allergen. 4_
    News

    Pret, TGI Fridays and M&B sign up with allergy app

    2019-11-07T10:26:00Z

    Pret, TGI Fridays and Mitchells & Butlers have all teamed up with a new smartphone app to help people with allergies avoid food which could trigger them. The free app, called Dinepilot, allows consumers to filter meals based on 14 of the most common allergies, and it also ensures operators comply with food allergy management.

  • Jollibee
    News

    Jollibee heading for Liverpool

    2019-10-22T07:41:00Z

    Filipino fried chicken chain Jollibee is set to open its second UK site in Liverpool.

  • Tom Allen Papa John's
    News

    Papa John’s appoints R&D director

    2019-10-22T07:41:00Z

    Papa John’s has appointed Tom Allen to the newly-created role of R&D director for the UK.

  • Veggie Pret, Exmouth Market
    News

    Pret lines up Eat conversions

    2019-10-14T07:32:00Z

    Pret a Manger is converting the first Eat into a Pret in Moorgate, while a Veggie Pret will follow in Canary Wharf later this month.