Apostrophe boulangerie/patisserie chain is the latest brand to sign up to open in the £4.3bn Heathrow Terminal 5, in March 2008. It joins Gordon Ramsay's new restaurant and Caviar House & Prunier, as well as multiple operators Eat, ...
Carluccio's has announced that turnover for the 16 weeks to January 14 2007 increased by 22 per cent on the same period the year before, in line with the board's expectations. Two of its mooted five stores due to open in 2007 have opened ...
Chris Corbin and Jeremy King's CKL Restaurants company, which owns St Alban and The Wolseley in London's Piccadilly, has recorded a profit increase of £452,000 to £660,000 for the year ended March 2006 – triple last ...
Claudio Pulze and Franco Zanellato have sold their shares in A to Z Restaurants to majority shareholder John De Stefano, but will remain non-executive directors. De Stefano also owns sister restaurant group London Henley Leisure, which owns a ...
Toss the old '70s carcass aside for a sharp new-wave carvery When the news broke that Posh Spice had taken her kids to a Toby Carvery for lunch, the nation gasped. Surely even La Beckham's blessing couldn't save these '70s throwbacks?...
Don't trust to providence, provide for yourself If you are a restaurant owner, fit and well with a bustling business, a pension may be the last thing on your mind. After all, your business is your pension, right? Well, maybe, but to ensure you ...
FishWorks restaurant and fishmongers has announced cost-cutting measures following its profit warning in November. Its head office in the West End has closed and moved to leased offices above its Islington restaurant, through which FishWorks expects ..
Motorway service operator Welcome Break has signed a seven-year contract with Eurotunnel to run the catering facilities at the Passenger Terminal Building at Folkestone. It will expand the seating area and introduce new concept Coffee Primo serving ...
Pourcel brothers pull out of Pulze partnership deal at 11th hour The Pourcel brothers have pulled out of the partnership deal with Claudio Pulze to take over ailing fine dining French restaurant W'Sens and turn it into a more mid-market concept....
Tragus Group has announced an increase in turnover of 14.8 per cent to £148.7m in the year ended May 2007. Like-for-like sales for the casual dining company were up 9.7 per cent. It had 236 restaurants by the end of the period, made up of ...
Knowing about good food and having great presentation skills simply isn't enough if you're thinking about jacking in the day job to become a restaurateur say first-timers You're sociable. You give dinner parties. You have ‘mine ...
Isn't it amazing how you can print off 100 copies of the menu and yet, halfway through lunchtime, they're all creased, covered in mucky pawprints and drizzled with red wine – and that's if you can find them. We like the solution ...
If you reckon museum food is tired and boring, think again. Forward-thinking operators are dusting off its image and upping the takings A top-name chef and museum food isn't a traditional pairing. Usually, those unfortunate enough to be struck by...
Brand extensions of restaurant food can be a lucrative sector to get into, but only if it matches the reputation of your business ;You cannot bottle the experience, but you can ensure that when the customer uses the products at home they are of ...
Ed’s Easy Diner has announced plans to franchise its brand. Founded in 1987 by Barry Margolis, who opened Ed’s in Soho, the company now has sites in Bluewater, Trocadero and Covent Garden. Despite the fact that Ed’s has always ...
