Pubs, Bars & Clubs News – Page 399
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NewsSpirit to expand Flaming Grill
Spirit Pub Company’s value food brand Flaming Grill will roll out to more pub sites following the success of its recent repositioning, director Nick Young told the Pub Retail Summit
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NewsGreat hosts 'key to bar success'
Being a skilled, engaging and efficient host as well as knowing how to “get the party started” is the key to running a successful bar, according to Be At One co-founder Steve Locke
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Drystone Inns enters administration
Drystone Inns, the Cumbria-based pub management company, which ran three sites across Yorkshire, has been placed into administration
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Evan-Evans launches apprentice search
Evan-Evans, the Llandeilo-based brewer, is starting the search for 10 new apprentices to join the brewing company’s pub estate, and in doing so, appoint the first brewing apprentice in the Welsh brewing industry
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NewsLoungers and JDW sign up for Solihull
Operators including Loungers and JD Wetherspoon have signed up to open at the new Parkgate mixed-use scheme near Solihull
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Beannchor to launch chicken concept
Beannchor is to become the latest operator to launch a chicken-led concept, with the opening of new restaurant Yard Bird later this month in Belfast
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M&B continues evolution of All Bar One
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), the managed operator, is continuing to evolve its All Bar One estate aimed at increasing the brand’s attractiveness to groups
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Inn Brighton agrees Indian food tie-in
Inn Brighton, the Brighton-based multiple operator, has agreed a deal with renowned Brighton-based Indian restaurant Indian Summer Kitchen to serve its meals at the pub company’s Norfolk pub in the city
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NewsFY net income down 2.9% at ETI
Enterprise Inns has this morning reported a 2.9% decline in like-for-like net income for the year to 30 September, but said that it had witness an improving trend in the final quarter of the year, with like-for-like net income growth of 0.6%
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NewsTuppen to step down from Enterprise
Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has announced he is to retire from the group he founded in 1991 next February with current chief operating officer Simon Townsend to succeed him. Tuppen, who will leave the company 19 May, has been chief executive of the company for more than twenty years
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JW Lees ups expansion target
JW Lees managing director William Lees-Jones has told M&C Reporthe expects the company to spend between £10m and £15m buying 15 pubs a year
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NewsMartin criticises 'delusion' in pub industry
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has said there’s a “level of delusion” among senior figures in the industry who are “out of touch” and often “don’t actually like pubs”
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Derry eyes 25 more White Brasserie pubs
Restaurant entrepreneur Mark Derry is looking to expand his fledgling White Brasserie pub concept by around 25 sites over the next two or three years using a new-style lease
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Brains replaces Costa in pubs with own brand
SA Brain, the Welsh brewer and pub operator, has taken out Costa coffee in its 95 sites and brought in its own brand named Great Little Coffee Company, retail director Philip Lay told the Pub Retail Summit
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Rose reveals new-look Chicago details
Chicago Leisure chief executive Christian Rose has revealed more details of the company’s new-look Chicago Rock Café, which opens in Yeovil next Thursday
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French: Good growth expected for Fuller’s in Q3
A leading analyst has said he expects Fuller’s to report a period of good progress with c7% growth in earnings to £18.3m PBT when it announces its H1 results for the 26 weeks to 28 September on 22 November
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Brunning & Price grows pipeline
Brunning & Price (B&P), the Chester-based pub group owned by the Restaurant Group, will open three further pubs before the end of the year and expects to be “even busier” on the openings front in 2014
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Openings to aid Young’s performance
A leading analyst has said that he expects a raft of new openings to have provided momentum to the performance of Young’s, which will release its H1 results for the six months ended 30 September on 21 November
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NewsCraft Beer goes mainstream
Craft beer has gone mainstream this year, beer writer Pete Brown has told the Pub Retail Summit
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NewsAnalyst corner
Simon French at Panmure Gordon looks ahead to Enterprise Inns’ full-year results next Tuesday (19 November), saying that he believes it will have struggled to reach its Q4 like-for-like target for profitability