‘Restaurants can’t be run off a spreadsheet,’ says new chief of Neapolitan pizza business Franco Manca January 11, 2024 A restaurant business cannot be run off a spreadsheet, the newly appointed boss of pizza specialist Franco Manca has said, amid a period of widening losses for the UK’s casual dining market.
The Botanist eyes ‘significant profit growth’ after £8m hit despite record sales January 11, 2024 The owner of brands including The Botanist is eyeing a surge in its profits after reporting a record year of sales.
The Alchemist toasts record year ahead of European expansion January 11, 2024 The Alchemist enjoyed another year of record sales ahead of opening its first European location, new documents have revealed.
Whitbread: Premier Inn owner keeps beating rivals as London hotel occupancy soars January 11, 2024 Whitbread said overall food and beverage sales for the third quarter was at £187.9m, lower than the previous two quarters
The Notebook: Turo’s Xavier Collins on why the UK needs to regain its risk appetite January 10, 2024 Where the City’s movers and shakers get a few things off their chest. Today, Xavier Collins, vice president at Turo, takes The Notebook pen.
Cheap London firms in crosshairs of trigger-happy activist investors in 2024 January 10, 2024 Activist investors are circling the London Stock Exchange this year in a bid to capitalise on the “significant valuation gap” facing UK firms, a new report has claimed.
Days: Meet the lively pair turning alcohol-free beer into more than a trend January 9, 2024 Here we go again – Dry January, the month in which avid pub-goers try to kickstart a healthier year ahead. You might think that means boom-time for brewers of non-alcoholic beer. But for Edinburgh-based Days Brewing, it’s just another month; 2023 saw the company sell more than a million of their lager and pale ale [...]
As meat free January rises we ask if plant-based can usurp meat January 8, 2024 As the meat free movement gains momentum this veganuary, we revisit our 2018 deep-dive into the rise and rise of plant based burgers and ask if meat as we know it will one day be a thing of the past. In the mockumentary Carnage, Simon Amstel imagines a future in which eating meat is as [...]
Top London steakhouse: nearly half of ‘steaks’ sold are vegan this Veganuary January 8, 2024 This Veganuary almost half of the sales from one top London steakhouse have been vegan
Veganuary: Try this ‘completely revolutionary’ vegan steak January 8, 2024 This vegan steak is available in London supermarkets this year