The founder of Chinatown’s Malaysian and Singaporean restaurant Rasa Sayang launches a fusion South East Asian restaurant in Bicester Village this month.
Giraffe, the Boparan Restaurant Holdings-owned restaurant brand, has launched a trial of a new look and menu, under the banner Giraffe World Kitchen, MCA has learnt.
Street food trading platform StreetDots has teamed up with Land Securities to run a street food project within the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre in Glasgow.
The developers of East London's temporary shopping mall Boxpark and the team behind street food market Street Feast are collaborating to find a semi-permanent site for a new street food concept.
Spanish restaurant chain La Tasca has said a turnaround of the business following last year's restructure is complete, with the business back in profit after four years of seeing sales drop.
Now 25 years old, Ed’s Easy Diner has never looked better, with strong like-for-likes and a shopping centre-focused expansion plan that is set to take it into the big league.
Restaurant operators are being sought for a new shopping centre in the Midlands and Bluewater has reopened its Wintergarden dining area as the potential of high-footfall shopping centres continues to be recognised by restaurant businesses.
The relationship between restaurateurs and landlords could be set to change forever, with an emerging trend of rival operators working together to obtain a large site, take it over and provide a range of different offerings.
Byron and Union Jacks are the latest restaurants to recognise the business potential of high-footfall shopping centre locations, with the opening of two new sites at Bluewater in the coming months.
The intense competition for prime city-centre restaurant sites is spreading rapidly into shopping centres across the UK, as landlords, established food concepts and emerging brands are increasingly recognising the potential of such high-footfall locations.
Westfield Stratford City attracted 200,000 visitors to its launch on 13 September, who were queuing en masse for a taste of what its 70 restaurants had to offer.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has revealed plans to build upon his successful Jamie’s Italian restaurant chain with a new concept, to be called Union Jacks.
Jamie’s Italian, the fast-growing restaurant chain spearheaded by Jamie Oliver, is lining up a new location in Milton Keynes, Big Hospitality understands