Byron
Coverage focuses on the trading performance, ownership history, and brand repositioning of one of the UK’s most recognisable premium burger chains. Reporting includes updates on site closures, CVAs, franchise partnerships, delivery kitchen strategy, menu development, and multiple administrations under previous ownership groups. Insight is tailored for operators and investors monitoring mid-market casual dining, brand recovery efforts, and shifts in consumer appetite for premium burger formats in high street and digital channels.
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May- 2020 -4 MayCoronavirus
Azzurri Group drafts in advisors
Azzurri Group has reportedly drafted in KPMG as advisors to help the hospitality giant navigate the ongoing coronavirus crisis. According to The Sunday Times, the owner of Zizzi and Ask Italian has become the latest casual dining chain to draft in restructuring experts, following news that both Wahaca, Gourmet Burger…
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1 MayCoronavirus
Business may not survive with social distancing measures, claim restaurants
Three quarters of restaurants in the UK have warned that their businesses may not survive with social distancing measures in place. Operators including café chain Paul as well as JKS have suggested that new measures designed to enforce social distancing could pose an “existential threat” to their businesses, according to…
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Mar- 2020 -27 MarchCoronavirus
Casual Dining Show 2020 cancelled
Event organisers Diversified Communications has announced it has taken the decision to cancel the Casual Dining Show 2020. The news, revealed in an email, comes after the scheduled event venue – London’s ExCeL – is to be converted into a makeshift hospital. NHS Nightingale as it will be called will…
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Feb- 2020 -17 FebruaryAwards & Events
Casual Dining 2020 confirms over 65 keynote speakers
Casual Dining, the restaurant, pub and bar event, has confirmed it has added CEOs, founders and senior directors from YO!, London Union, Loungers, Carluccio’s, Byron, Flat Iron, Imbiba, Pizza Pilgrims, Wahaca, Dishoom, Busaba, Yard & Coop, and Hippo Inns to its lineup of over 65 keynote speakers. The event, which…
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Nov- 2019 -11 NovemberCatering Companies
Deliveroo launches new ‘Pickup’ service for customers
Deliveroo has launched a new click and collect service for its customers named ‘Pickup’. Deliveroo said Pickup aims to help people save “time and money” as they won’t have to wait in a queue for their order to be prepared or pay a delivery fee. It added that this will…
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Sep- 2019 -20 SeptemberFood and Drink
FSA to take action on allergy information following Byron inquest
Following the inquest into the death of diner at restaurant chain Byron Hamburgers, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced new plans to signpost food allergies and intolerances. Owen Carey, had a severe allergy to dairy, died after eating a chicken burger marinated in buttermilk at a Byron at the…
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16 SeptemberRestaurants
Restaurant closures up 25% over the past 12 months
The number of restaurant insolvencies has jumped 25% in the last year up to 1,410 in 2018/19, compared with 1,130 for the previous year. The study compiled by accounting firm UHY Hacker Young found that the rapid growth of the causal-dining sector since the last recession had resulted in an…
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Aug- 2019 -21 AugustAdvice
Five ways restaurateurs can use digital marketing to survive the high street turbulence
Looking at the high street restaurant scene at the moment, it is easy to feel pessimistic. Jamie’s Italian became the latest popular British restaurant chain forced to shut its doors for good when it announced the closure of 23 of its 25 restaurants. Since 2018, Carluccio’s has closed nearly a…
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5 AugustAnalysis
Jamie Oliver’s Restaurant Group – timeline
The collapse of Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain is arguably one of the biggest developments in the industry in recent times. The company’s fall into administration is synonymous with the challenging times restaurant groups are currently facing, which has seen Byron Burgers approve company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) allowing them to close…
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1 AugustAnalysis
Who now thinks Byron was worth £100m?
There was a time when Byron was all the rage. Perhaps the earliest successful British recreation of the exploding American ‘posh burger’ trend, it struck a chord with affluent London millennials and quickly became a posterchild for high-growth restaurant businesses in the fast-casual segment. Founded by Tom Byng in 2007…
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