Livebookings, the European leader in real-time reservations and online marketing services for restaurants, and Urbanspoon, the leading mobile restaurant discovery application and reservation management system, today announced they have partnered to add Livebookings' reservations capabilities to Urbanspoon’s web and mobile app. Urbanspoon will add 5,000 bookable restaurants … [Read more...]
GBK opens 5 new restaurants, ramps up expansion
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK) has announced plans to open five new restaurants across the UK before the end of February 2013 as part of its UK expansion drive. The premium burger brand will open at three shopping centre locations before Christmas: Brent Cross shopping centre on 5 November; the new Vaults development, part of Southgate Shopping Centre, Bath in early … [Read more...]
Diners given options as restaurants offer choice
Food cooked to order the way the customer wants it is emerging as one of the key trends in Horizons’ latest Menurama survey, which tracks new foods and dishes from the menus of high street pubs, restaurants, quick service outlets and hotels. While steaks, burgers and sandwiches have generally been served prepared to order, other dishes such as pasta, salads, melts, Mexican … [Read more...]
Ed’s Easy Diner celebrates 25
This month sees Ed’s Easy Diner celebrate its 25th anniversary, having opened its first site in Soho in 1987. The brand has rapidly expanded, having grown from eight to 12 sites this year by opening in Basingstoke, Leicester and Cheshire Oaks and Swindon Outlet Malls, and before the end of the year opening Southside in Wandsworth, the Bridgend Outlet Mall, and in West Quay, … [Read more...]
Leading restaurateurs’ share profit experiences
Share in the experience of market leading restaurants How do restaurants like TGI Friday’s increase profits without reducing their service and quality? Call Systems Technology seeks to share the experience gained from many years of working with successful restaurant brands such as T.G.I. Friday’s, Chiquitos, Frankie & Benny’s, Drake & Morgan, Jamie’s Italian, … [Read more...]