All San Carlo articles

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    Openings of the week

    2026-07-03T08:02:00Z

    MCA rounds up this week’s biggest openings stories, featuring Pizza Hut’s return to Marble Arch, Darjeeling Express’ return to Soho, and new sites from Shake Shack, Dave’s Hot Chicken, and KFC

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    San Carlo reports £76m turnover

    2026-07-02T07:12:00Z

    The premium Italian restaurant group, which also operates under brands such as Signor Sassi and Cicchetti, saw turnover dip marginally due to challenging trading conditions

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    Openings of the week

    2026-03-27T08:27:55.780Z

    MCA rounds up the week’s biggest openings stories, featuring Irish-American concept The Horsemen and Fitzgerald’s, new pubs from Brunning & Price and Fired Up Hospitality, and more

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    San Carlo nears £80m turnover

    2025-07-01T06:42:00Z

    The premium, family-run Italian restaurant group posted £77.9m turnover in its latest accounts, as it expands its overseas footprint with launches in Miami, Egypt, Bahrain, and Morocco this year

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    San Carlo Group expands international presence

    2025-02-03T11:50:00Z

    The Italian restaurant group will refurbish its existing estate in the UK while making its US debt with a launch in Miami this spring

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    Openings of the week

    2024-11-29T08:10:00Z

    MCA rounds up this week’s biggest openings stories, featuring Fulham Shore’s Super Club Roma, Loungers’ newest Brightside, and more

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    San Carlo continues to grow

    2024-07-01T07:24:00Z

    The premium Italian restaurant group is relocating Cicchetti Piccadilly while refurbishing and reopening the Flying Pizza in Leeds, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024

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    San Carlo ‘well positioned’ for future growth

    2024-04-17T14:12:00Z

    MD Marcello Distefano tells MCA the business is focused on expanding its Signor Sassi and Cicchetti brands abroad, and is “chomping at the bit” to bring fresh concepts to the market

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    San Carlo: ‘It’s an exciting market out there’

    2024-03-21T08:12:00Z

    Like-for-likes are in double-digit growth as the Italian restaurant group prepares to open six restaurants in the next 18 months, according to MD Marcello Distefano

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    San Carlo: We’re no longer fearful of going outside the UK

    2023-08-04T07:35:45.273Z

    San Carlo Restaurant Group remains focused on growing an international business as it gears up to launch two more sites in Qatar, MD Marcello Distefano tells MCA

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    San Carlo ‘delighted’ with recovery

    2023-06-27T07:26:00Z

    The premium Italian restaurant operator boosted turnover by 137% to £68.9m in 2022

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    Openings of the week

    2023-06-16T07:36:00Z

    MCA rounds up this week’s biggest openings stories, featuring new venues from Flat Iron, Greggs, San Carlo Group and more

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    Famiglia face

    2023-02-20T09:26:00Z

    San Carlo Group’s impeccably turned out MD has the premium casual Italian space all sewn up on these shores, and increasingly oversees too

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    San Carlo and Gino D’Acampo look to collaborate on growth opportunities

    2023-02-10T08:40:00Z

    The two Italian premium dining chains have stated they are eyeing further opportunities together in the UK and overseas

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    San Carlo partners with Sunset Hospitality Group (SHG)

    2022-12-08T08:14:00Z

    The Italian restaurant operator is partnering with the Dubai operator to open a 312-cover Signor Sassi site in St. Regis Dubai Hotel

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    Openings of the week

    2022-05-26T11:58:00Z

    MCA rounds up the biggest opening news this week, featuring Wagamama, M Restaurants, Inception Group and San Carlo Group

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    San Carlo rues missed opportunities

    2021-11-19T08:22:00Z

    Following the launch of Isola near Bond Street, MD Marcello Distefano tells MCA San Carlo has turned down good opportunities over fears of over-stretching staff

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    TRG hopes to move forward with airport sites

    2020-11-04T08:46:00Z

    The Restaurant Group is hoping to press ahead with plans to open four new sites in 2021 at Manchester Airport, though opening dates will depend on a return of passenger numbers in the new year, MCA understands.

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    San Carlo reports loss for the year despite boost to turnover

    2019-07-17T07:52:00Z

    Manchester-based restaurant group San Carlo has posted a loss for the full year to 30 September 2018, of £133.7k, as market conditions and escalating costs ate into profits.

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    San Carlo looks to global expansion as Brexit bites

    2019-06-03T07:05:00Z

    Family-owned group San Carlo Restaurants has told MCA it will open a pop-up Signor Sassi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia over the next couple of months with the intention of opening a full-blown restaurant there next year.