Bella Italia

The Big Table Group serves up 'resilient' performance

12-Jul-2023 By Restaurant

The group behind restaurant brands Las Iguanas, Bella Italia, Café Rouge, Banana Tree, and Amalfi has reported resilient trading in 2022.

Machine learning: Bella Italia trials use of robot waiters

10-Jun-2022 By Restaurant

The group behind restaurant brands Las Iguanas, Bella Italia and Café Rouge is trialling the use of robots at one of its venues.

Bella Italia owner to launch premium Italian casual dining brand Amalfi

08-Feb-2021 By Restaurant

Bella Italia owner Big Table Group is to launch a premium Italian casual dining concept called Amalfi this spring.

Bella Italia named best hospitality company to work for in 2021

18-Jan-2021 By Restaurant

Bella Italia has been named the best hospitality company in the UK to work for by job website Glassdoor.

Restaurant chains' sustainable fish use rises but diners still unsure

20-Jan-2017 By Hannah Thompson

High street restaurant chains have been commended for their increasing use of sustainable fish and seafood, but still need to increase information given to diners, a new report has concluded.

Majority of high street restaurant chains serving unsustainable seafood

18-Nov-2015 By Sophie Witts

More than half of the UK’s largest restaurant chains are serving seafood from overfished areas or failing to be transparent about the origins of their fish and shellfish, new research has found.

Bella Italia to open 40 new restaurants by 2017

01-Jul-2015 By Mark Wingett

Bella Italia, the Casual Dining Group restaurant brand, is to open 40 new sites by 2017, with openings lined up in Orpington, Chichester, Burton and Hemel Hempstead among others.

Light at the end of the tunnel for Tragus

02-Oct-2014 By Melodie Michel

Tragus has announced the completion of its financial restructuring and the appointment of Martin Robinson as non-executive chairman as part of a ‘transformational reorganisation’.

Strada sold to Sun Capital Partners for £37m

29-Sep-2014 By Melodie Michel

Tragus Group has sold 43 Strada restaurants to Sun Capital Partners (SCP) for £37m, claiming to have ‘secured a sustainable future for the business’.

Tragus gets landlord support for CVA

23-Jun-2014 By Mark Wingett

Tragus has received support from 85-90 per cent of landlords and creditors in regards to a Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA), which will see the company shed up to 40 sites from its Café Rouge and Bella Italia estate.

Tragus reveals plans to refurbish entire Café Rouge estate within three years

19-Feb-2013 By Mark Wingett

John Derkach, the chief executive of Tragus, has revealed he hopes to have completed an ambitious project to refurbish the ‘vast bulk’ of the Café Rouge estate within three years in order to make the brand more contemporary.