Restaurants News – Page 67
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NewsElephant Park adds to restaurant line-up
Miko’s and Bayroot, two south-London based restaurants, are set to open sites in Southwark’s Elephant Park in Spring 2020.
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NewsPepper Collective announces slew of projects
Temper founder Neil Rankin and former Benugo CEO Handley Amos are heading up a restaurant division that will provide investment and expertise to restaurateurs to launch new ventures.
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NewsMitchells & Butlers “pleased” with performance
Mitchells & Butlers has released a trading update for the 14 weeks ending 4 January 2020. Like for like sales were up 3.5%, with “particularly strong sales growth” in food. Over the three-week festive period, like-for-like sales were up 5.6%. Total sales increased by 2.7% over the full year to date.
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NewsBenugo wins £60m London Zoo contract
Benugo has won a competitive tender for a ten-year partnership with ZSL London Zoo.
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NewsFormer Fat Duck Group CEO forms experiential restaurant company
James Bulmer, former Disney executive and CEO of The Fat Duck Group has formed a new immersive restaurant company, Wonderland Restaurants.
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NewsArchie’s secures Trafford Centre site
Archies, the burger and shake diner concept, has lined up two new sites in its hometown of Manchester, MCA understands.
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NewsFlight Club secures former Burning Night site in Leeds
Flight Club has secured the former Burning Night Group site in Leeds for its next site, MCA understands.
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NewsThai Restaurant Group closes Chaophraya Manchester
Thai Restaurant Group has closed its Chaophraya site in Manchester city centre after 12 years.
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NewsVeganuary operator offering round-up
Once again, Veganuary is upon us, and with the number of vegans more than doubling to 600,000 between 2016 and 2019, this year’s operator offering is bigger than ever.
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NewsPastaio’s Stevie Parle: ‘People want in-your-face flavours’
The chef-owner of the pasta joint talks about expanding the Pastaio brand, his approach to menu development and why he’ll never compromise on quality.
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NewsTasty sells Dim T More London site for £2m
Tasty has exchanged contracts for the sale of its Dim T More London site for £2m.
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NewsSales spice up at Giggling Squid
Giggling Squid has said sales for the year ending 31 March 2019 were up 39% to £33m. It opened seven new sites to take it to 30 during the financial year, and said the new sites have all performed “on or well above expectations”. It has subsequently opened four new sites in Oxford, Chislehurst, Leamington Spa and Weybridge, and will open its 35th site in Leicester in January.
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NewsReview of the Year Part Two
When England achieved the impossible, and destroyed the indestructible All Blacks in the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup, it looked like it was going to be a bumper day for hospitality on the day of the final. The UK would wake up early and hit the pubs and bars first thing to watch England win the final, followed by trips to restaurants, followed by pubs, bars and clubs, before ending up slumped on the sofa trying to focus on the highlights and order a Deliveroo. All England had to do was win.
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NewsReview of the Year part One
Amid a backdrop of casual dining carnage and CVAs around every corner, the industry had plenty of news in 2019. But Pizza Express delivered drama. With 490 sites in the UK, Pizza Express is a national institution. So when it announced a net debt pile of £1.1bn earlier this year, and premature rumours of its demise hit the airwaves, the country rallied itself in the way it does best these days – by keyboard.
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NewsFlank - flexing chef muscle
Tom Griffiths has a complex relationship with burgers. The Flank founder says it’s a universal truth that his peers love eating them but hate cooking them, and this dilemma has been a constant in his career. Keen to avoid being typecast as a garden-variety patty slinger, when he first launched ...
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NewsLabour’s new challenge to business
Labour is going to be a major headache in 2020. No, not the political party, but something potentially just as damaging to business if it doesn’t get it right. Staff shortages continue to blight the hospitality sector, and how to attract, retain, engage and motivate the best people is not going to get any easier. Even investors are now putting people at the top of board agendas ahead of property.
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NewsGrowth Company Index 2020 launched
MCA is teaming up with Alix Partners again this year to find the top 50 private hospitality firms with the fastest-growing profits. If your company has three years’ audited accounts and turnover in excess of £3m, then please get in touch before 1 February to be considered for this year’s list. Previous entrants do not need to re-apply, but if you’d like to be considered for the first time, please contact james.halliwell@wrbm.com.
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NewsFulham Shore reports hike in sales and lift in profits
Fulham Shore, which operates Franco Manca and The Real Greek, has said sales were up 9.3% to £36m for the six months ended 29 September 2019. Pre-tax profits were £1.4m, compared to a £0.1m loss the previous year. It opened six Franco Manca sites and one Real Greek site during the period, and has also opened one of each since September. It now has 51 Franco Manca sites and 18 Real Greek sites.
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NewsWhat’s the take home from the latest Home Office ruling on takeaways?
Having represented many restaurants in the past, I have long battled with the Home Office when it comes to securing foreign chefs for UK restaurants. The difficulty lies in the fact that most foreign chefs require sponsorship by a UK business. In order to be able to sponsor a chef, restaurants cannot provide a take-away service.
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NewsDark kitchen boom throws-up licensing and regulatory concerns
Practically unheard of 18-months-ago, ‘dark kitchens’ is a phrase fast becoming common currency in the burgeoning food-delivery market. However, the very nature of them, coupled with the speed at which they’re being opened, is throwing-up a number of licensing issues, with some local authorities said to be playing catch-up when ...