New store openings and the growing popularity of Greggs in the evening have helped the high street bakery brand to generate sales of £1.5bn. A record 186 new shop openings during 2022 helped the Newcastle-based firm attract more customers close to pre-pandemic levels, it said in preliminary results published to the London Stock Exchange. Greggs […]
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Stack & Still, the UK’s largest chain of pancake houses, has dished up a £10,000 donation to children’s charity Cash for Kids after generous diners at its six participating Scottish branches added an extra £2 topping when paying their bills on Pancake Day. The Glasgow-based Pancake Pioneers, who serve over a million pancakes every year
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The Fowey Valley Hotel in Cornwall has been acquired for an undisclosed sum. The hotel in the town of Lostwithiel, located around six miles from visitor attraction The Eden Project, has been bought by an unnamed independent hotel group. The 38-bedroom accommodation hotel trades under the Best Western franchise and has been operated by independent
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Stack & Still Team Stack & Still, the UK’s largest chain of pancake houses, is gearing up for take-off at Glasgow Airport this spring as it prepares to launch its first partnership with a travel operator. The Glasgow-headquartered company, which serves in excess of a million pancakes per annum, will open its latest venture
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Dalata Hotel Group plc (“Dalata” or “the Group”), the largest hotel operator in Ireland, with a growing presence in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, is pleased to announce the addition of a new 192-bedroom hotel at 240 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, North London to its hotel portfolio. Under the transaction, Dalata has acquired
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Left to right: Damien Schricke, Head of RedMart and Grocery, Ivan McKee, Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise, Scottish Government and Kara Owen, British High Commissioner Some of Scotland’s finest produce were given significant digital exposure after an international food and drink event kicked-off in Singapore. More than 150 industry leaders and stakeholders attended
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Hotel giant Travelodge has launched a recruitment drive to fill more than 400 posts. The jobs will be a mixture of full and part-time positions across their 13 East Midlandslocations and at its head office in Oxfordshire. Travelodge said it will be recruiting managers, bar and cafe staff, housekeepers, receptionists and for its in-house maintenance
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Travelodge has upgraded two of its hotels in south Wales as part of a UK-wide multi-million pound upgrade. The UK budget hotel chain has announced that it has completed refurbishments at its hotels in Swansea city centre and Whitchurch in Cardiff. The revamps are part of the first phase of the firm’s “budget-luxe” hotel upgrade
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Hero Brands has appointed Nil Naik (pictured above) as its new Franchise Director to grow the group’s impressive collection of genre-defining brands of the future. Nil has over 20 years’ experience in Franchise Sales and Operations, working across a variety of franchise models including some of the world’s leading food and drink brands such as
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Having been dismissed by industry experts in 1983 as an idea that would never work, a whisky club started ‘for a lark’ by a maverick whisky enthusiast in Edinburgh is this year celebrating its 40th-anniversary and approaching 40,000 members around the world. For four decades, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) has specialised in releasing
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