Ealing

Today’s news in brief – 22/09/23

Comptoir Libanais reported revenues of £14.8m for the six months ending 2 July, a 2.1% increase. However, adjusted EBITDA profits were down 73.7% from 2022 levels to £1m due to challenges in the trading environment. Like-for-like sales increased by 6%, with dine-in sales growing by 8.1%. Delivery sales declined in…

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Comptoir Libanais profits dip amid difficult trading conditions

Comptoir Group, owner of Lebanese and Middle Eastern restaurants, has announced revenues of £14.8m, an increase of 2.1%, for the six months ended on 2 July.  Adjusted EBITDA profit was £1m, a decrease of 73.7% compared to 2022, which the group attributes to “a challenging trading environment” dictated by the…

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Comptoir Libanais to open new site in Ealing

Comptoir Group has announced that it has secured a location for the opening of a new Comptoir Libanais restaurant in Ealing, West London.  The 3,325 sq ft restaurant is positioned on the high street and is expected to open in early October 2023.  The Ealing restaurant, which will be Comptoir’s…

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Fullers sees 33% rise in revenues to £336.6m

Pub and hotel chain Fuller, Smith and Turner has reported a 33% rise in revenues to £336.6m in FY2023 compared with £253.8m in FY2022, according to its latest figures for the 53 weeks ended 1 April 2023. According to Fuller’s, who continues to recover from the pandemic, revenues increased despite…

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Popeyes expands its UK presence with four more sites

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen UK, has announced its next wave of UK restaurant openings, with in-line sites due to open in Derby, Leicester, Liverpool and Cambridge.  The news follows the successful launch of its two latest sites, Gateshead and Oxford. Its Derby site will open to the public in late October,…

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Popeyes UK to open six more sites

Popeye’s UK, which first launched in November 2021 with “runaway success”, has announced plans to speed up its national rollout with six new sites confirmed across the country in Nottingham, Gateshead, Oxford, Reading, Brighton, and Ealing.  Popeyes was founded in New Orleans in 1972, and currently has sites in Stratford,…

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Lewis Hamilton’s Neat Burger to launch 30 new sites

Celebrity endorsed plant-based group Neat Burger has announced a triple expansion of 30 new sites, 14 restaurants and 16 delivery kitchens. It revealed the launch follows the completion of a funding round valuing the company at £50m, an increase from a £19.5m valuation last year. New restaurants  to open in the next…

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Gordon Ramsay to open first Bread Street Café

Gordon Ramsay is to open his first Bread Street Café in Ealing Broadway on 23 August. The restaurant will be inspired by the original Bread Street Kitchen restaurant, which Ramsay launched in 2011.  According to its website, the new café will open seven days a week and offer an “all-day…

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