All Restaurants articles – Page 216

  • Griff and Ed Brown of Friska Foods
    News

    Friska set for northern expansion

    2015-10-07T08:08:00Z

    Friska, the Bristol-based healthy eating concept, plans to open in three new cities next year as well as potentially adding a sixth in Bristol

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    Pizza Pilgrims confirmed for Exmouth Market

    2015-10-07T08:07:00Z

    Sourdough pizzeria Pizza Pilgrims has confirmed it will open its third permanent site at Exmouth Market next month marking the group’s first move into east London

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    Stein: sector expanding too fast

    2015-10-07T08:00:00Z

    High-profile chef Rick Stein has said the UK’s restaurant scene is expanding too quickly to attract and nurture talent chefs

  • El Mexicana
    News

    El Mexicana sets out expansion plans

    2015-10-07T08:00:00Z

    El Mexicana, the fast-casual Mexican franchise restaurant group, has confirmed its next two restaurants will open in Swindon and Sutton

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    Orange Elephant heads to London

    2015-10-06T08:19:00Z

    Menu-free steak restaurant Orange Elephant is opening its first venue in London’s Chelsea next month

  • Hugh Osmond
    News

    Osmond considers Coppa roll out

    2015-10-06T08:19:00Z

    Hugh Osmond, the serial sector investor, has told M&C that he may consider rolling out his new all-day dining concept, Coppa Club

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    ONE Group secures first UK STK Rebel site

    2015-10-06T08:18:00Z

    The ONE Group has secured the first site in the UK for its casual dining concept STK Rebel in Edinburgh

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    PizzaExpress seeks marketing director

    2015-10-06T08:18:00Z

    PizzaExpress is seeking a new marking director, after Charlotte Maxwell steeped down as its commercial director

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    Davies eyes Delisserie expansion

    2015-10-06T08:18:00Z

    Ian Davies, the founder of The Rotisserie and Delisserie concepts, is looking at further expansion opportunities for the latter

  • News

    Malevo Group founders part ways

    2015-10-06T08:17:00Z

    Diego Jacquet, co-founder of the Malevo Group has left the group to focus on new ventures in the UK and internationally

  • News

    Gordon Ramsay Group reports FY lfls up 4.2%

    2015-10-05T14:38:00Z

    Gordon Ramsay Group has reported like-for-like sales in its UK restaurants up 4.2% for the year to 31 August

  • Spirit bar staff
    Analysis & Insight

    Wage wars

    2015-10-05T08:37:00Z

    At a time when people are the “magic dust” that divides an evenly matched sector, a number of companies have started to factor in increased investment on attracting and retaining staff. With others likely to follow, what will suffer, expansion plans or refurbishment targets? And will the issue finally force the Government to create a more level playing field with the supermarkets on tax?

  • Jamie's Italian interior
    News

    Blagden: There is a limit on growth in the UK

    2015-10-02T16:27:00Z

    Simon Blagden, chief executive of Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group, has said that there is a limit of how many restaurants the group will open in the UK

  • PizzaExpress CEO Richard Hodgson
    News

    PizzaExpress: Delivery, Reys, acquisitions, overseas concepts

    2015-10-02T16:27:00Z

    M&C talks to Richard Hodgson, chief executive of the Hony Capital-backed PizzaExpress, about the group’s move into the delivery market; the potential for its chicken-led concept Reys; scope for acquisitions and introducing Far East-based brands into the UK

  • TGI Friday's
    News

    TGI’s Cheetham: recruitment is a game of two halves

    2015-10-02T16:24:00Z

    Dawn Cheetham, head of culture development at TGI Friday’s, has said that the group is seeing a real crisis develop around recruiting kitchen staff

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    FOLD on a roll

    2015-10-02T16:17:00Z

    FOLD, the Vietnamese restaurant serving rice paper-based dishes, has been designed to roll-out after proving the concept at the first store which opens later this month

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    Profit boost for Stein

    2015-10-02T16:17:00Z

    Rick Stein’s restaurant group The Seafood Restaurant, has reported a rise in gross profit of £58k for 2014 to £1.16m, up from £1.1m the previous year

  • Comptoir Libanais food
    News

    Levant eyes Bluewater for Shawa

    2015-10-02T16:16:00Z

    The Levant Restaurants Group, the Tony Kitous-led company, is set to start the expansion of its fast-casual format Shawa

  • Piada
    Opinion

    The infinite options at Piada

    2015-10-02T16:12:00Z

    Taking its influence from Chipotle and a road trip to Italy, Piada Italian Street Food is a brand making big waves in the US fast-casual sector. Kerstin Kühn caught up with co-founder Chris Doody

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    Ramsay to back Clare Smyth’s solo venture

    2015-10-02T15:22:00Z

    Clare Smyth is leaving her role as chef patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay to open her own standalone London restaurant with the backing of the celebrity chef.