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Weekend PressAnarchy in the IPA: as punk brewer’s sales stall, are we past peak BrewDog?
An embrace of private equity and publicity missteps have diluted the craft beer company’s original rebel ethos, The Guardian reports
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Weekend PressPret and peers serve up a cold platter of UK high-street gloom
Retailers still planning around yesterday’s customer habits will find even greater challenges in store, Jennifer Hughes writes for the FT
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Weekend PressHeston Blumenthal: The secret to enjoying food on Mounjaro
The chef describes the moment he knew weight-loss drugs would be a disaster for restaurants, and why his ‘mindful raisin’ exercise could help, The Sunday Times writes
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Weekend PressPret boss Pano Christou: ‘We’re not expensive’
The sandwich and coffee chain reveals plans to launch meal deals and drive-thru sites as it targets major push into motorway services and airports, The Sunday Times writes
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Weekend PressAn ale star cast: pint-pulling Rupert Everett surprises country pub’s punters
Hollywood actor helps out at the Swan at Enford in Wiltshire as he and his neighbours fight to save their local, The Guardian reports
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Weekend PressLondon remains the greatest city – that’s why I’m betting on it
Britain’s capital will always be a place where the world meets, eats, works, and sleeps, Petros Stathis writes for The Telegraph
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Weekend PressNew bars on Otley Run route to ban pub crawlers
Two new bars on Leeds’ famous Otley Run route have been allowed to open after bosses pledged they would not serve people taking part in the pub crawl, BBC News reports.
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Weekend PressDrive-thru operator could switch from Starbucks to Costa Coffee
Britain’s biggest Starbucks operator, EG Group is weighing a move to drop its Starbucks sites to unlock a cut-price swoop on rival Costa Coffee, according to The Sunday Times
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Weekend PressTaco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
Since 2023, the fast-food chain has introduced the technology at over 500 locations in the US, with the aim of reducing mistakes and speeding up orders
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Weekend PressMiddle East KFC operator Americana to diversify into local brands after Gaza boycott
Sales at the fast-food franchise operator tumbled when consumers turned on western outlets over American support for Israel, the Financial Times reports
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Weekend PressThe coffee machine that knows when you need a cuppa
Scott Martin, the man behind the Costa Express dispenser, is setting up hundreds of AI-powered machines around Britain, The Sunday Times reports
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Weekend PressCan craft beer survive its awkward adolescence?
As Brewdog demonstrates, growing up is hard to do, the Financial Times reports
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Weekend Press‘All the power is with the employer’: why zero-hours workers welcome Labour’s rights bill
Critics of the legislation want the government to water it down, but for many employees change can’t come too soon, The Guardian reports
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Weekend PressHow a flood of cheap British octopus is changing restaurant menus
Today, the common octopus is finding its way onto the plates of diners across the country after an influx of the cephalopods to British oceans not seen for 75 years
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Weekend PressHow the humble pizza conquered Britain
Barely a week goes by without local headlines hailing the expansion of a new pizzeria in another town or village, The Telegraph reports
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Weekend PressThe big match-day drink rethink
While lager may still be first choice for most fans, it’s no longer the only option in the UK’s Premier League clubs, Alice Lascelles writes for the FT
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Weekend Press‘They’re just not eating as much’: restaurants in the age of weight-loss drugs
According to Dan Hastings-Narayanin at the Future Laboratory, if the uptake of weight-loss drugs continues to increase as predicted, widespread change is inevitable, The Observer writes
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Weekend PressBrewDog beers axed by almost 2,000 pubs
The company’s range of draught beers have disappeared entirely from approximately 1,860 pubs in the last two years, cutting its UK distribution by more than a third, The Telegraph reports
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Weekend PressHow the gig economy conquered Britain and stoked the migration crisis
Uber and Deliveroo have transformed the UK, but concerns are growing that they attract illegal workers, The Telegraph reports
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Weekend PressZuber Issa calls for EG Group to sell $5bn-plus US forecourt business
The co-founder of the petrol station giant wants its board to pursue an American sale rather than float the entire business in New York, the Financial Times reports