Restaurants News – Page 161
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Jamie’s Italian to ditch plastic straws
Jamie’s Italian restaurants has become the latest sector operator to remove plastic straws from all of its UK restaurants
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Salt Yard Group reviews its options
Salt Yard Group, the London-based company that includes Salt Yard and Opera Tavern in its portfolio, is go review its funding options
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Restaurant spend up 12% in November
Transactions in restaurants grew 19% in November compared to the same month last year but average transaction value fell 5.9%, according to the latest figures from Barclaycard.
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Moore backing new fast-casual concept
Chris Moore, the former chief executive of Domino’s Pizza, is backing a new fast-casual concept, Happy Birds, which is set to launch early next year in Bristol
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Lewis Pratt plans launch of market hall concept
Andrew Lewis Pratt, former managing director of Retail Parks and Xscape at Capital & Regional, is looking to launch a new concept called The Market Hall
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NewsFounders’ Forum Focus: Claw
Fabian Clark was shocked when he learnt some British fishmongers were exporting 80% of their crab, kick starting a voyage to create Claw, a brand with the crustacean as its hero dish. In the latest of our Founders’ Forum series, Finn Scott-Delany hears how a sideways approach to expansion is being taken.
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Bundobust eyes investment; set for Liverpool
Bundobust is started talks regarding taking on new investment, as it gears up to secure a site in Liverpool
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Coppa Club confirms Maidenhead plans
Coppa Club has confirmed it is to open a new site next summer in Maidenhead’s town centre.
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SSP agrees to acquire German travel concessions firm
SSP Group has agreed to acquire part of the Stockheim group, a travel concessions business based in Germany
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Sticks n Sushi confirms Nova launch
Sticks ‘n’ Sushi, the Copenhagen-based restaurant group, has confirmed its fifth restaurant in London, and seventh in the UK, will open at Nova Victoria next Friday.
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Ladies of Restaurants stage second ‘in conversation’ event
Sexual harassment and behaviour in the workplace were among the topics at Ladies of Restaurants’ second “in conversation” event
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Fortnum & Mason facing restaurant staffing problem
Fortnum & Mason’s chief executive Ewan Venters said that the business was already struggled to recruit the 300 seasonal staff
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Zizzi to rethink cash handling policy
Zizzi says it will reconsider the wording of its cash handling policy
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Final One Sixty site sold
The remaining One Sixty site in the City has been sold to a new operator called Damien McCrystal
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NewsFive Guys UK plans smaller format
Five Guys UK plans to open two sites under a smaller format after securing sites in Richmond and Chelsea
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Male to launch The Loft in St Albans
Nick Male, the former Conran executive chef and head of food development at Harrods, is to lauch a restaurant in St Albans, MCA understands.
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Purezza sets out expansion plans
Purezza, the Brighton-based vegan pizza restaurant concept, is opening in Camden in February 2018, with plans for further sites in Manchester and Bristol later in the year.
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Belpassi Bros shuts Tooting site
Belpassi Bros, the Tooting based meatball restaurant concept, has closed its doors to find a more central site and to concentrate on retail.
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NewsWagamama H1 lfls up 6.9%
Wagamama has reported UK like-for-like sales up 6.9% in the first half of the year, to 5 November.
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Angela joins Busaba board
Mark Angela, the current chief commercial officer of SSP, has joined the board of Busaba Eathai