5th February 2017 Just Eat, the global marketplace for online food delivery, has increased revenues by 52% to £375.7m to 31 December 2016. Orders rose 42% to 136.4mllion), up 36% on a like-for like basis. Lik-for-like revenues increased 46%. Pre tax rose 164% to £91.3 million (2015: £34.6 million). The compnay processed restaurant orders […]
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2nd March 2017 Research company NPD Group says thefood delivery channel has grown by 50% since 2008, as even pubs begin delivery. The delivery channel in Britain’s eating-out foodservice market (known as out-of-home or OOH) was worth £3.6 billion in 2016, up 6% on the previous year. Last year delivery grew 10
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2nd March 2017 Nando’s has launched its hottest sauce yet – the Peri-Peri Vusa – containing more chillies than any of its other dressings. Translated the Zulu for “excitement and fire” in Zulu, the sauce also contains citrus, garlic and onion to give an “intense, full-bodied taste”. Nando’s claims Peri-Peri Vusa
1st March 2017 Chinese has been named the UK’s favourite takeaway food in a poll of 2,000 consumers, with 35% of the vote. Indian food came second (24%), with pizza in third place (13%). The survey by Paymentsense, a low-cost card payment service, also found most people still call a takeaway to place
28th February 2017 Goa Premium Craft Beer importer Viiking Ventures UK, has announced an incentive for restaurant waiters to win one of 50 of pairs of tickets to this year’s IIC Champions Trophy cricket matches. The company is also sponsoring this year’s India Pakistan London Fashion Show 2017 (ILP) in conjuntion with
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26th February 2017 With the approach of the Holi season, opportunities to pelt each other with coloured paints in the name of Hinduism and the changing seasons are being announced. Cinnamon Kitchen near Liverpool Street is to erect its Holi party pod from Tuesday 7th until Saturday 18 March (Holi itself is 13 March),
23rd February 2017 Tamarind Collection, which owns the Michelin-starred Tamarind restaurant in Mayfair, is open ‘Tamarind Collection’ in Soho. Spread over two floors, the 100-cover restaurant in Wardour Street, will feature a private dining room for up to 20 guests and an underground late-night cocktail bar. The interiors will be designed by Russell Sage Studios and
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22nd February 2017 Figures released in The Big 30 Wholesalers report in The Grocer magazine, show that Booker has a turnover of £4.99bn, ahead of Palmer & Harvey (£4.44bn), Brakes (£3.09bn), Bidvest Foodservice (£2.52bn) and Bestway (£2.17bn). Booker is also, by a distance, the biggest wholesaler in terms of depots (197), staff employed (13,144) and
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20th February 2017 The Chairman of the Asian Catering Federation (ACF) Yawar Khan, has made the gloomy prediction that half of the nation’s curry houses will disappear from the High Street inside a decade. Issues facing curry restaurant owners – such as chef shortages and rising costs – have been widely reported,
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From the near dereliction of the 1980s to the boom years of the new millennium when around 50 restaurants were in operation, recent years have seen curry houses closing and an influx of restaurants offering other cuisines. Former London mayor Ken Livingstone ran a ‘Totally Brick Lane’campaign to promote tourism called , along with
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