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Becoming a scalable business through successful crowdfunding

It’s one thing to identify a growing market, establish an innovative route into the sector, and reach a point of scalability, but to continually grow a startup is another ballgame completely. Crowdfunding can provide the path needed to beat that game, but also the opportunity to score an unfortunate own…

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Ready Burger tops £1.5m crowdfund target on day of launch

Ready Burger, a plant-based fast food company, has exceeded its £1.5m crowdfunding target within hours of launching the campaign. The group has now raised over £1.75m from almost 350 investors, with 29 days still left to go on its Crowdcube campaign. Providing burgers described as “fast food that’s better for…

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Kitchen Barbers Bazaar opens second London site

Kitchen Barbers Bazaar is set to open its second restaurant for takeaway in Kentish Town today (12 March). Founded by Abdul Yaseen, the site will serve modern Indian cuisine, extending the group’s operations from its Crouch End restaurant which opened in 2020. Having moved to the UK almost two decades…

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Richard McLellan’s Wilder restaurant and bar to open in Shoreditch

Chef Richard McLellan has announced the opening of his new restaurant and bar, Wilder, launching on Wednesday 16 October 2019, at Boundary London, Shoreditch. Previously of Typing Room and Michelin-starred Alyn Williams at The Westbury, McLellan has partnered with restaurateur Sir Terence Conran to open his first solo venture in…

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Deliveroo – making the move from platform to operator

Last May, Deliveroo Editions announced that it would start bringing its own brands of food to market – and now we see Deliveroo stepping this up. In London, for example, Deliveroo Editions has six of its own brands offering food available from Crouch End in north London. The brands represent…

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Former Smokehouse chef to lead Chicken of the Woods new restaurant

Supper club Chicken of the Woods is to open its first permanent restaurant, named Through the Woods. The 16-cover restaurant will be headed up by former Smokehouse chef, Chris Slaughter, and will open in London’s Crouch End offering one sitting per day at 8pm from Thursday to Saturday. A £40…

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Deliveroo to host refugee chefs for Refugee Week

Deliveroo will host refugee chefs to bring the world’s dishes to Londoners for the 20th anniversary of Refugee Week from 18 to 24 June. The chefs, who have fled conflict and political upheaval from Syria, Yemen, Libya, Eritrea and Ivory Coast, are part of the community project and charity Welcome…

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