Restaurants News – Page 282
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The Diner confirmed for Southampton
The Good Life Group will open its first regional The Diner early next year year in Southampton.
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NewsAndrew Page becomes Cote chairman
Former The Restaurant Group (TRG) chief executive Andrew Page has become chairman of the 75-strong Cote, the BC Partners-backed group
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NewsDerkach to chair Le Bistrot Pierre
Le Bistrot Pierre, the Livingbridge-backed group, has appointed ex-Costa Coffee managing director and Tragus chief executive John Derkach as its new chairman
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NewsTOBC capturing more diners as food revamp rolls out
Steve Burns, chief executive of The Original Bowling Company, has told MCA that customers are increasingly choosing to eat at its centres rather than at nearby casual dining chains.
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KFC launches new city centre format
KFC UK & Ireland has introduced a new smaller footprint concept for its city centre restaurants, with the intention of opening up to 200 sites under the format
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SSP signs £90m Dusseldorf airport deal
Transport concessions operator SSP has signed a seven-year deal worth £90m to open eight units and a conference centre at Düsseldorf Airport.
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Nestle’s Norris named Arena chairman
Steve Norris, sales director at Nestlé Professional, has been made the new chairman of Arena – the hospitality industry networking association
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Turkish restaurant Yosma to open in Marylebone
Yosma, a new Turkish-style restaurant in London’s Marylebone, overseen by a former chef at Jamie Oliver’s Barbecoa, is to open in June this year
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Wahhab: NLW will lead to restaurant closures
Iqbal Wahhab, founder of the Cinnamon Club and Roast restaurants, has said the National Living Wage will lead to the closure of “thousands of restaurants”
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Harry Ramsden’s set to open in South Africa
Harry Ramsden’s, the iconic fish and chips chain, is set to launch in South Africa
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Tombo to open Soho-based poké-focused cafe
Japanese food specialists Tombo is to open “a contemporary Japanese café” in the heart of Soho next month
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Cote deal to represent high water mark for valuations
CBPE’s secondary sale of the Côte business to BC Partners for c£250m last summer will probably represent the high water mark for valuations in the casual-dining space
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Al-Fayed to open plant-based restaurant Farmacy
The daughter of former Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, Camilla Al-Fayed is to open a ‘one-of-a-kind’ plant-based restaurant in London. Farmacy, which will open at the end of this month on the former Ping Pong site in Westbourne Grove, will serve ‘healthy comfort food’ with a twist, including vegan burgers and ...
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Pepper steps down from La Tasca
Following the full integration of La Tasca into the Casual Dining Group, David Pepper will leave the business this week after five years as its people director
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CAU lines up Edinburgh opening
CAU, the sister concept to Gaucho, has lined up its second opening in Scotland, in Edinburgh
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Pomroy swaps McDonald’s for Whitbread
Nathalie Pomroy has stepped down as retail marketing director at McDonald’s to become the new commercial director of Whitbread’s Restaurant division
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Bella invests £1m in Bluewater flagship
Bella Italia will open its one hundredth location - a flagship 300-cover restaurant - in Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent this week
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NewsFulham Shore gives update on FY
Fulham Shore has said it has rolled out the National Living Wage to under-25s and that it traded in line with expectations in the financial year to 27 March.
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NewsGBK signs for Beverley shopping centre
Gourmet Burger Kitchen is to open a unit on the Flemingate shopping centre in Beverley, East Yorkshire.
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NewsEx-Cote owner in Pizza Hut running
CBPE, the former owner of Cote is amongst a group of four parties reportedly in the running to acquire Pizza Hut Restaurants, which was placed on the market in February