The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table ranks Britain's 100 private companies with the fastest-growing sales over their latest three years and is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each December, with an awards event at Richard Branson's Oxfordshire family home and follow-up regional dinners. A typical Fast Track 100 company: is owned … [Read more...]
Take a look at Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room
As H&CNews readers will know, Starbucks has opened its first Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, nine blocks away from its original store in Pike Place Market. The interactive Roastery and Tasting Room is dedicated to roasting, coffee education and increasing availability of the company’s small-lot Reserve coffees. Every Reserve … [Read more...]
Prescott and Conran buy Les Deux Salons, Covent Garden
Shelley Sandzer, the leading leisure property specialist agency, has acted for Anthony Demetre and Will Smith of Les Deux Salons in a deal that sees Prescott and Conran acquire the Covent Garden brasserie at 40-42 William IV Street. The 9,000 sq ft restaurant is split over basement, ground and first floor levels with a total of 170 covers. It adds to the portfolio of … [Read more...]
Food and drink prices: lessons from 2014
In 2013, predictions for UK food and drink prices in 2014 were for continued inflation at around 3.5% - as the graph above indicates, the reality was a very different deflation of up to 1.5%, though this is more like 0.5% inflation for foodservice (see explanation in Summary below). So what at was it that caused the disparity between the forecast and the actual performance? … [Read more...]
Vapiano wins MAPIC Award for Best F & B Retail Concept
Vapiano has won the category “Best Food & Beverage Retail Concept” at the 19th MAPIC Awards in Cannes. The lifestyle brand won over the jury with Italian zest and a cosmopolitan ambience. “Chi va piano, va sano e va lontano”: “Take things easy, and you’ll live healthier and longer”, so goes the Italian saying. This attitude to life is reflected in all facets of the … [Read more...]