Restaurants News – Page 419
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Bodean's Blais teams up with Plateau's Pickett
Andre Blais, of Bodean’s Barbeque is teaming up with Allan Pickett, head chef of London’s Plateau restaurant, to open a French restaurant called Piquet in early spring 2015
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Mews of Mayfair gains highest sustainability award
Mews of Mayfair, the collection of restaurants run by James Robson, has been awarded three stars by the Sustainable Restaurant Association – the highest rating it awards
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NewsPing Pong FY lfls grow 3.9%; losses widen
Ping Pong, the London-based dim sum chain, saw like-for-like sales rise 3.9% in the year to 30 March 2014 although pre-tax losses widened from £295,606 to £1.5m
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NewsTossed's McKevitt: London property prices make expansion difficult
Vincent McKevitt, founder of London-based salad bar concept Tossed, has told M&C Report it would be a “big task” to reach its target of 75 to 100 sites in the capital due to steep property prices
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NewsItsu names new CEO
Itsu has appointed Cameron Roberts, formerly a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and who has a background in retail, as its new chief executive as it gears up for further expansion across the UK and looks to enter the US market, M&C Report has learnt
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NewsPrezzo tweaks Cleaver ahead of possible roll out
Prezzo will continue to “tweak” its Cleaver brand over the next 12 to 18 months before assessing whether it has roll out potential, chief executive Jonathan Kaye has told M&C Report
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Stone Willy's opens first deli store
Stone Willy’s, the pizza chain operated by Rookway Food Systems, has opened a food-to-go deli outlet in Longbridge, south Birmingham
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NewsGiggling Squid secures ex-Strada unit in Bristol
Giggling Squid, the fast-growing Thai restaurant group, has secured the site of a former Strada in the Clifton area of Bristol
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Sakana to open in Manchester
Manchester restaurant operator Rockstar Leisure is opening a new pan-Asian restaurant in the heart of the city called Sakana following more than £1m investment
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CAU and Ben's Cookies confirmed for Oracle
CAU and Ben’s Cookies have been confirmed to open at Reading’s Oracle centre
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Analysts upbeat on Prezzo
Two leading analysts have given an upbeat assessment of Prezzo following the company’s H1 results yesterday
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NewsFreehold site let to Carluccio's sells for £4.25m
The freehold of a north London property let to Carluccio’s has been sold for £4.25m on behalf of a private consortium to Attleborough Estates Limited.
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NewsPrezzo reports 'strong' H1
Prezzo, the restaurant group headed by Jonathan Kaye, has reported a “strong” start to the year with a 17% rise in adjusted EBITDA to £14.6m in the 26 weeks to 29 June, and said it expects to have opened 25 new restaurants by its year end
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Buenos Aires seeks investment to aid expansion
Buenos Aires Restaurants, the steakhouse restaurant group, is seeking investment to ramp up its expansion plan to three to four new sites next year, M&C Report has learnt
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NewsWagamama closes in on ex-Café Rouge site
Wagamama is understood to have secured the former Café Rouge site in Birmingham for an opening later this year
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Porky’s secures Shoreditch site
Porky’s, the Memphis BBQ restaurant, has secured a third site in London’s Shoreditch to open in October as part of plans to roll-out 10 restaurants in the next two years
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NewsGaucho lines up Far East opening
Gaucho Holdings will open its first Asian outpost in the heart of Hong Kong in mid-October
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NewsBurger & Lobster to ramp up regional expansion
Burger & Lobster, the London-based group, is to ramp up its regional expansion over the next 12 months, after securing a site in Cardiff
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NewsBill’s secures Villagio site
Bill’s has secured the Richoux Group’s Villagio site in Berkhamsted, as it closes in on having in excess of 50 sites open by the end of the year
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NewsMcDonald's: UK 'positive' amid global decline
McDonald’s says a “positive” performance in the UK helped to offset weakness in Russia, as comparable sales across Europe fell 0.7% in August