Reading
Coverage highlights foodservice and hospitality activity in this key South East town, with reporting focused on the Oracle Riverside, Broad Street, Caversham, and Station Hill areas. Topics include restaurant and bar openings, commuter-led weekday trade, independent operator growth, and regional investment linked to Reading’s tech and business hub status. Insight is geared toward operators monitoring footfall dynamics, high street recovery, and scalable dining formats in affluent commuter markets.
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Aug- 2022 -3 AugustPeople
Claridge’s appoints new culinary director
Claridge’s has announced the appointment of Dmitri Magi as its new culinary director, alongside Richard Galli as executive chef and Thibault Hauchard as executive pastry chef. The positions were reportedly created especially for the hotel’s overhauled culinary team to “cement its position as a world-class gastronomic destination”. The news comes…
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Jun- 2022 -28 JuneRestaurants
Honest Burger partners with UberEats for delivery
Honest Burgers has announced today that it has become an Uber Eats exclusive partner, which will reportedly see 43 stores across the country implement takeaway delivery via the UberEats app. The partnership also means that UberEats customers can now order Honest Burgers’ “premium quality burgers” and the “signature” rosemary salted…
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23 JuneApps & Technology
Taster launches its first delivery offering in Bristol
Taster, the delivery-first restaurant group, has announced its arrival in Bristol after securing its first franchise partner in the city. Taster is the UK’s first ‘delivery-first’ restaurant group and uses a modern franchise model to partner with restaurateurs and kitchen owners. From 23 June, Bristolians will be able to order…
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13 JuneVenues & Properties
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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Apr- 2022 -8 AprilPubs and Bars
Nightcap to open The Cocktail Club in Birmingham
Nightcap, the owner of The Cocktail Club, the Adventure Bar Group and the Barrio Familia group of bars, has announced a new opening for The Cocktail Club in Birmingham later this year. After the successful openings of larger The Cocktail Club venues in Reading and Bristol over the last few…
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Mar- 2022 -15 MarchRestaurants
Acquisitions drive Nightcap revenues to surge 700%
Nightcap has reported a 700% increase in revenues to £15.8m during the 26-week period ended 26 December 2021 boosted by a series of acquisitions. The group also revealed like-for-like revenues increased 22.4% compared with the same period in 2019. Excluding the ‘Plan B’ period, group revenue increased by 28.3% on…
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Jan- 2022 -11 JanuaryRestaurants
Gastrono-me to open second site in Cambridge
Gastrono-me Restaurants has revealed plans to open a second site in Cambridge in March 2022 as it looks to expand the group across the UK. The group, which currently operates only one site in Bury St Edmunds, first announced its expansion plans for the all-day concept last year. Founders Gemma…
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Dec- 2021 -7 DecemberFood and Drink
The Coconut Tree to open in Birmingham
Sri Lankan street food restaurant group The Coconut Tree is continuing its “organic” growth, with a new site set to open in Birmingham in early 2022. The eighth restaurant in its portfolio, following Reading and Bath openings in 2021, will join other branches in Cardiff, Bristol, Oxford, Cheltenham and Bournemouth.…
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Nov- 2021 -26 NovemberAnalysis
COP: 26. Is it already too late?
Following the 26th installment of the great political effort to find common ground on climate change, ‘is it too late’ is a question many now ask themselves. Did we blow our last shot at solving the defining crisis of our age? We’re yet to see political consensus to refute Grayling’s…
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25 NovemberFood and Drink
Wendy‘s eyes further UK expansion
Wendy’s is reportedly eyeing further expansion across the UK, having recently opened up a new site in Croydon this month. According to the Financial Times, the group has been “buoyed” by sales at the five UK sites it has opened since it relaunched in Reading in June. Wendy’s chief development…
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