Food and wine from around the world combine with a memorable day of racing at Ascot’s Festival of Food and Wine Raceday on Saturday 6 September – with Chef and TV personality James Martin headlining the event for the second year, following a successful debut in 2013. As part of his involvement James Martin will be serving an exclusive three-course set-menu at Ascot’s … [Read more...]
PizzaExpress offers Random Acts of Pizza
PizzaExpress is asking people to nominate the person they’d most like to spend quality time with at PizzaExpress, who could be rewarded with free pizza. What’s better than pizza? Free pizza. So to make September the best month to visit PizzaExpress, the restaurant group is giving away delicious pizza. Helping PizzaExpress to decide who deserves a delicious treat, it’s … [Read more...]
The Restaurant Group: on track to double in size
The Restaurant Group has reported Interim results for the 26 weeks ending 29 June 2014, delivering record results, with double digit growth in earnings, dividends and cashflow. Highlights: Strong financial performance: Total revenue increased 10% to £308m (2013: £280m) Like-for-like sales increased by 2.5% Operating profit margins increased by 20bps EBITDA … [Read more...]
KFC major menu overhaul introduces ‘pulled chicken’
KFC becomes the first quick service restaurant to bring on-trend street food to the high street, as it adds to its traditional fried chicken menu with the introduction of a range of slow cooked pulled chicken products for its customers. Arriving ahead of KFC’s 50‐year anniversary, the slow cooked Pulled Chicken range ‐ which includes the Ultimate Burger, Chicken Twister Wrap … [Read more...]
Chicago Rib Shack takes neighbourhood format to Clapham
Chicago Rib Shack, the iconic BBQ restaurant brand, has just opened its latest outlet in Clapham. This is the first venture as part of its new neighbourhood format which will see three or four new openings within the next twelve months. Its vibrant new interior has been created by 44th Hill’s Stuart Taylor, making the most of its railway arch location just of the high street, … [Read more...]