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How can restaurant business develop a loyalty proposition that benefits both them and their customers?

Loyalty – but at what cost?

By James McAllister

Pret’s recent volte-face with its subscription scheme has identified the challenges of building loyalty. How can businesses develop a proposition that benefits both them and their customers?

Images: Bennie Curnow

Latest opening: Marceline

By James McAllister

London’s Canary Wharf is now home to a huge new floating brasserie that features classical takes on rustic French dishes.

Menu prices rise 4.5% year-on-year

Menu prices rise 4.5% year-on-year

By MCA Insight

Food menu prices have increased 4.5% year-on-year, according to Lumina Intelligence’s latest Menu Tracker quarterly update.

Credit: Xavier Buendia Photography

How I Got Here: Rupert Davidson

By James McAllister

The founder Neapolitan pizza restaurant group Fatto a Mano on nurturing talent from within your business, learning from mistakes, and what makes a good leader.

Cool weather and Euros boost restaurant groups' delivery sales in June

Cool weather and Euros boost delivery sales in June

By James McAllister

Britain’s leading managed restaurant groups recorded the strongest growth in delivery sales since the end of Covid-19 restrictions in June, CGA by NIQ’s latest Hospitality at Home Tracker reveals.

Irina Linovich has found permanent home for ‘vegetable forward’ restaurant Holy Carrot in London Notting Hill

Latest opening: Holy Carrot

By James McAllister

Following a successful pop up, first-time restaurateur Irina Linovich has found a permanent home for her ‘vegetable forward’ concept Holy Carrot in London’s Notting Hill.

Sri Lankan restaurant group The Coconut Tree has entered into a company voluntary arrangement

The Coconut Tree enters into CVA

By James McAllister

Sri Lankan restaurant group The Coconut Tree has entered into a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).

Chef Jakob Grant opens Deal bistro Cherub’s upstairs at The Bohemian public house on seafront

Chef Jakob Grant opens Deal bistro

By James McAllister

Former Bouchon Racine chef Jakob Grant has opened his first solo restaurant venture, a bistro located upstairs at The Bohemian public house on the seafront in Deal, Kent.

Hawksmoor explores potential sale that could value the steakhouse restaurant group at £100m

Hawksmoor explores potential sale

By James McAllister

Steakhouse group Hawksmoor has been put up for sale in a deal that could value the restaurant chain at about £100m.

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Jeremy Clarkson buys Cotswolds pub

By James McAllister

Jeremy Clarkson is to launch his own pub after acquiring The Windmill, a former wedding and banqueting venue set in five acres of countryside near Burford, Oxfordshire.

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