Restaurants News – Page 71
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NewsHonest Burgers lines up St Paul’s site
Honest Burgers has lined up an opening in Paternoster Square, on the former site of Ernest Jones, MCA understands.
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NewsFlight Club founders announces parent company Red Engine
Flight Club founders Steve Moore and Paul Barham have announced the launch of parent company Red Engine which will oversee the darts concept and forthcoming second brand Electric Shuffle.
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NewsWarrens Bakery to open at Gatwick with SSP
Warrens Bakery is to open a second airport site, this time at Gatwick Airport as part of a new partnership with SSP.
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NewsHow McDark represents the future and the past for McDonald’s
In the least surprising news since it emerged that too much fast food makes you fat, McDonald’s has opened its first dark kitchen. Expect KFC to do the same, soon.
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NewsCreams tests the water on savoury options
Dessert chain Creams has made the move into savoury options for the first time, with a trial menu launched at a selection of its sites.
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NewsWalker joins CDG as CFO
Casual Dining Group has appointed Adrian Walker as its new CFO, taking over from Giles David who will leave the business in December. Walker joins CDG after four years at Pizza Hut, where he worked as CFO and more recently as a non-executive director. “We look forward to welcoming Adrian ...
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NewsChop’d to launch virtual vegan brand
Chop’d is to launch a virtual vegan brand through Deliveroo next Monday, called Vegan Delivered.
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NewsLandlords getting cold feet over long-leases
London landlords are becoming increasingly nervous about signing restaurants up for long leases following several high-profile closures, according to a leading property expert.
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NewsAdam Handling to launch sustainable casual restaurant
Chef and restauranteur Adam Handling is to open a sustainable casual restaurant and champagne bar called Ugly Butterfly on the Kings Road next month.
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NewsMcDonald’s opens first ‘dark kitchen’ in Hounslow
McDonald’s has opened its first dark kitchen dedicated solely to Uber Eats deliveries, according to a report by Property Week. A McDonald’s spokesman told the magazine the opening was “part of a wider trial to test different restaurant formats” and the dark kitchen would “ensure that restaurants in the surrounding area can provide the service and convenience that our customers expect, ensuring that McDelivery customers have a great experience.
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NewsRockfish reveal sales hike
Rockfish, the seven-strong seafood chain run by Mitch Tonks, has revealed a sales uplift of 15% to £7.95m for the year end 2019. Tonks said the last 12 months had represented a “real turning point for our business. We saw some tremendous like-for-like sales, opened one restaurant but also paused to consider what was going on in the wider industry and economy and focused on strengthening our senior team and building the pipeline for the future.
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NewsPatisserie Valerie unveils its vision of the future
The bakery chain is overhauling its menu and branding, promising ‘no more frozen pies in microwaves’. But can its new owners secure its place on the high street?
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NewsGetting a taste for New Product Development
Regardless of their industry, innovation is widely recognised as the lifeblood of organisations. If we focus on new product development (NPD), then MCA’s Menu Tracker analysis for Spring/Summer 2019 shows that it is getting ever more prevalent. Looking at over 8,000 dishes across over 110 operators in the London region, over 600 were flagged as ‘new’ on menus. This equates to 8%, significantly higher than the 4% and 6% seen in previous years.
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NewsNotorious BLT: How one sandwich shop has raised the bar for lunch
Is £9.50 a reasonable price for a sandwich? What about in London? What if this sandwich has a Michelin star? True, the sandwich I’m talking about doesn’t, but Sons + Daughters (S+D) is the sandwich shop opened in September by Pidgin, a critically-acclaimed restaurant that held a Michelin star in 2017. And this upmarket offer shines a light on untapped opportunities for other operators to premiumise their lunch offer.
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NewsYo! teams up with Movember
Yo! has teamed up with Movember to raise awareness of mental health among men, following a startling report by Nestle Professional which claimed eight in ten chefs have experienced poor mental health during their careers. Yo! will host a panel discussion with Movember and Countertalk, an organisation which helps connect industry bodies, which will encourage people to be more open about mental health. The panel will include Yo! HR director Alyson Hancock, Sarah Coghlan, global health promotion director at Movember and Merly Kammerling, from Me, Myself and Mind.
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NewsFrankie & Benny’s focuses new menu on Italian American roots
Frankie & Benny’s has revamped its menu as it looks to highlight its Italian American roots.
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NewsByron appoints new brand director
Byron has appointed Richard Danks as its new brand director, completing the line-up of its senior team.
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NewsForrester to depart TGI Fridays
Karen Forrester is to step down as chief executive of TGI Fridays UK on 13 December, after 12 years in the role.
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NewsChick-fil-A opens Scottish Highlands restaurant
Chick-fil-A, which is set to close its UK debut in Reading amid protests, has opened a second store in the UK, in the Scottish Highlands.
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NewsMy Cookie Dough adds three to portfolio
My Cookie Dough has added three more shopping centre kiosk sites to its estate in the past week.