Venues & Properties
The latest news and updates on venues and properties, from the business journalists at Catering Today. We bring you the latest on what’s happening in the restaurants, bars and catering industry, with exclusive stories, analysis, best practice and industry comment.
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Nov- 2018 -20 November
Wetherspoons eyeing further Irish pubs
Wetherspoons is to look for further sites in the Republic of Ireland after it said it has seen “great success” at its current five pubs in the country. Tim Martin, Wetherspoons chairman, said he was “pleased” that three new sites in Ireland were currently under development, as work began on…
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20 November
Crussh announces move into workplace catering
Crussh, the healthy food and juice chain, has added a new format to its existing offering with a move into workplace catering. The company opened its first workplace catering format in the recently renovated Minster Building, in the City of London, on Friday 16 November. Minster Building is managed by…
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16 November
Major investment at Inglenook Inns and Taverns’ fourth Star site
Work is starting this week to refurbish The Crown at Alrewas in Staffordshire after Inglenook Inns & Taverns signed a substantive lease with Star Pubs & Bars. The Crown will become Inglenook Inns & Taverns fourth pub with Star and brings its total estate to 15. The £270,000 joint investment…
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15 November
KERB to open food concept in Seven Dials
Street food company KERB and London-based landlords Shaftesbury have announced the opening of a new food hall concept in the 19th century Thomas Neal’s Warehouse in Seven Dials, London. It is hoped that KERB’s bricks and mortar debut, Seven Dials Market, will “rival the best food halls in the world”…
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14 November
Boxpark Wembley to open with Rinse FM takeover
Boxpark Wembley will open on Saturday 8 December at Quintain’s £3bn Wembley Park development, making it the largest site to date for the food and retail company. Ugly Dumpling, Nanny Bills, Smoky Boys, Mitsuryu and Cut + Grind are among the street food vendors that will open at the venue,…
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13 November
London’s newest street food market to open in Holloway
The Upper Place, a brand-new street food market, is set to open early 2019 on the first floor of Nags Head Market in Holloway. The Upper Place will offer guests a tour around the globe through a selection of street food brands with a focus on authentic and innovative concepts.…
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13 November
EU rules could ‘thwart’ Hammond’s business rates promise
Hammond’s plan to help high streets through a near £1bn, two year business rates cut, is set to be thwarted by European Union state aid rules, real estate agents Altus Group have claimed. The chancellor will slash business rates next April by discounting bills by a third for those retail…
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12 November
Chopstix launches new Westfield site
Chopstix, UK-based Asian quick service restaurant (QSR) brand, has opened a brand-new store, complete with next generation design at Westfield Stratford. The new opening, which brings to fruition a brand enhancement exercise for the business, will launch on the former Sticky Rice site. The newly designed store will place further…
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9 November
Paddy & Scott’s signs deal with TA Hotel Collection
Coffee supplier, Paddy and Scott’s, has signed a new four-year deal with TA Hotel Collection in East Anglia. Supplying coffee, machinery and training to the hotel groups’ hotels and restaurants, Paddy and Scott’s is hoping this new contract will raise the bar for coffee. As part of the new contract,…
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9 November
Historic pub demolition put on hold
The demolition of a 400-year-old pub to make way for affordable housing has been put on hold, after the proposed tower block was branded an eyesore. Ewloe’s Boar’s Head pub was due to be demolished following its closure in 2002, with property developers Pennaf Housing claiming they were meeting a…
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