All Starbucks articles – Page 20
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Barnfather: Pressure building on Whitbread
Leading analyst Anna Barnfather, of Panmure Gordon, has said that Whitbread’s growth story is shifting further towards capex-heavy room expansion, increasing the capital intensity of its business model, raising debt levels and lowering returns.
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NewsPOD’s Skerritt joins Le Pain
Kate Skerritt, one of the founders healthy food-on-the-go concept POD, who stepped down from the company this week, has joined Le Pain Quotidien
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NewsPOD founders to step aside
Tim Hall and Kate Skerritt, the founders of POD, are to step aside from the day-to-day running of the 22-strong business
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Analysis & InsightWage wars
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?
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NewsPOD returns to expansion
London-based healthy food-on-the-go Pod is returning to expansion following a period of consolidation
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Starbucks to roll out mobile payment
Starbucks is rolling out mobile payment to more than 150 London stores from today
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 26-27 September
Weekend press round-up, 26-27 September Suppliers Budweiser set to bid £70bn for SAB Miller AB InBev could table a £70bn bid for SAB Miller this week, firing the starting gun on the biggest-ever takeover of a British company. Over recent days the world’s two biggest brewers have begun “friendly” talks, ...
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SA Brain wins coffee shop chain of year
SA Brain’s Coffee#1 brand has been named Coffee Shop chain of the Year at the Café Life awards.
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NewsStarbucks UK to extend national living wage to all workers
Starbucks UK launches inititatives to help staff tackle “cost of living”
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Bluewater restaurants gear up for peak trading times
Restauranteurs at Bluewater shopping centre in Kent are preparing for the busiest trading period in the run up to Christmas and the new year by growing their staff
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NewsSvenson: MOD could grow to “hundreds of stores” in the UK
Scott Svenson, co-founder of MOD Pizza, has said that there is an opportunity for the brand to grow to “hundreds of stores” in the UK
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Happiour to go nationwide
Happiour, a London-centric app that offers time-sensitive restaurant and bar deals, is expanding its platform to attract more operators ahead of launching nationwide
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Analysis & InsightThe MOD principle
On the back of yesterday’s announcement that MOD Pizza is to launch in the UK in partnership with Sir Charles Dunstone, M&C looks back on the talk co-founder Scott Svenson gave at last year’s Restaurant conference. Svenson touched on the state of the US pizza market, the story behind MOD – its development, ethos and people-led culture
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Starbucks launches youth programme
Starbucks UK is partnering with UK Youth charity to launch its 2015 Starbucks Youth Action programme in the House of Commons
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NewsMOD teams up with Dunstone to launch in the UK
MOD Pizza has signed an agreement with Sir Charles Dunstone, the backer of Five Guys in the UK, to make its debut here
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intu Milton Keynes granted sizeable extension
Intu’s retail and leisure complex at Milton Keynes has been granted 100k sq ft of additional space to include a two-level dining quarter with a cinema, retail and public spaces
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Analysis & InsightGreggs tops food to go brands for visit share
M&C Allegra Foodservice’s latest Food To Go Tracker has shown Greggs topping the list of brands for share of visits.
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NewsStarbucks planning 2,000 US Evenings stores by 2019
Starbucks is planning to roll its Evenings model out to 2,000 US stores by 2019.
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NewsSpeciality coffee sector to double in value by 2020
The speciality coffee market is set to double in value by 2020 as established coffee brands, pubs and restaurants try to compete with artisan operators.
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Analysis & Insight
Tipping point
With staff recruitment and retention at its most challenging and when consumers are demanding more transparency, is it time for sector wide legislation on service charge to be implemented to take out the grey?