All Restaurants (Casual Dining) articles – Page 6
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Sourced Market to expand hybrid to ten in five years
Sourced Market, the hybrid casual dining-farmers market concept at London’s St Pancras Station, is looking to expand to ten sites in the next five years after securing £700k of equity investment, M&C Report has learnt
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Las Iguanas gains Vegetarian Society accreditation
Las Iguanas, the Latin casual dining concept backed by the Bowmark Capital group, claims to be the first casual dining restaurant group to gain Vegetarian Society accreditation
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Bite Me Pizza opens first site
New pay-as-you-go pizza concept Bite Me Pizza is opening its first site in west London this month and plans to roll-out a chain of affordable restaurants that will deliver pizzas using drones
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Clockjack amends lunch ahead of expansion
Clockjack Oven, the rotisserie chicken restaurant concept led by Jerry Goldberg, is changing its lunch offering to meet the workers’ lunch market before expanding the business later in the year with plans to take it nationwide
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Harrison caters for street food trend
Harrison Catering Services is entering the street food segment with a pop-up street food concept for its business and industry customers called Street Feast
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The Burger Joint looks for third site
The Burger Joint, an independently-owned Bristol burger restaurant is looking for a third site to open late 2014 or early 2015 and is considering expansion to Bath, M&C Report has learnt
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NewsGiraffe rolls out café concept
Giraffe, the Tesco-owned restaurant group, will open smaller café models of its restaurants at six Tesco Extra stores this summer at smaller stores that have high daytime footfall
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The Burger Joint opens second site
The Burger Joint, an independently-owned luxury burger restaurant, has opened its second site in Bristol
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America favours fast-casual dining
Fast-casual dining operators are gathering pace in the US and taking an increased market share from full service restaurants, with bakery cafes seeing the fastest growth in a segment worth £20.3bn
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Square Pie plans dual growth strategy
Square Pie, the gourmet pie shop chain, is looking to strengthen both its restaurant and wholesale pie business as part of a long term growth plan that will see it expand across the country
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Free range fried chicken concept opens first site
Bird, the free range fried chicken restaurant concept, has opened its first site in Shoreditch, London by husband and wife team Paul Hemings and Cara Ceppetelli, who want to elevate fried chicken
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NewsBarburrito seeks more funding to double estate
Barburrito, the Manchester-based Mexican-style casual dining chain, is close to securing additional investment to double its estate as part of its plan for a nationwide presence
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El Mexicana plans next 10 sites
El Mexicana, the fast-food Mexican franchise concept, has opened a site in Woking bringing its estate to 11 and is aiming to expand its pipeline by between eight and ten new openings this year, M&C Report has learnt
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Feng Sushi awarded three stars for sustainability
Feng Sushi, the Japanese fast-casual restaurant and take away concept backed by Luke Johnson, has been awarded three stars from the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) for innovation in 2013
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Assado introduces take-away concept
High-profile chef Cyrus Todiwala is offering ‘grab & go’ food at his recently opened Goan-Portuguese casual-dining restaurant Assado, near London’s Waterloo
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Chopstix continues nationwide roll-out
Chopstix, the noodle bar operated by the Oodle Noodle group, is opening six new sites in shopping centres and one roadside location in the coming months
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Zaks diner signs first franchisee
Zaks, the Norfolk-based American diner chain that has been operating for nearly 40 years, is opening its first franchised restaurant in south west Norfolk and plans to roll the concept out nationwide
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NewsTesco to launch Decks format
Tesco is to launch its new casual dining format at its Extra store in the Arena Shopping Park, Coventry next month under the name Decks, which it describes as a “fresh take on eating out”, M&C Report has learnt
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Analysis & InsightOut-of-town take up
Casual dining is becoming an essential part of the retail experience in the UK. It is now widely acknowledged that an attractive leisure mix leads to increased dwell time, as well as an improved consumer experience, says Andrew McGregor, head of leisure at Knight Frank
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Casual dining transforming out-of-town parks
The strong increase in the number of casual dining outlets on retail parks compared with fast food sites has been a significant recent trend in the out-of-town sector