Dunkin’ Donuts is to be renamed ‘Dunkin’ from January 2019, the company’s CEO has revealed. Although it will continue to sell the donuts that have made it famous across the world, the updated branding is regarded as a significant step in the chain’s transformation to a “beverage-led, on-the-go brand” and will be visible on all…
Travel hub operator SSP gets on board with fast-growing restaurant brand
SSP has partnered with fast-growing café-bar and restaurant brand Grind and plans to open an outlet at a key London location within the next 12 months, with a pipeline of additional locations in both air and rail under discussion. Grind launched in Shoreditch in 2011, and the brand has since established itself as a best-in-class…
EXCLUSIVE: Compass details kitchen thinking behind first public-facing Caffe Dallucci site
Caffe Dallucci is the innovative cafe brand from Compass Group and it has just opened its first public-facing site at Solent Business Park in Fareham. Extensive detail has gone into getting the flow of service exactly right and matching the back-of-house catering and beverage equipment to the offering. FEJ travelled down to Hampshire to meet…
Kellogg’s crunches into foodservice market with permanent cereal café
The emergence of ‘cereal cafes’ has been a trend in cities such as London during recent years, but food manufacturer Kellogg’s is aiming to trump everything that has gone before it with a cafe that takes the concept to a whole new level. The Cornflakes and Frosties giant has revealed that it will bolster its business portfolio by opening a cereal…
Pubs fighting it out for fewer customer as coffee shops steal trade
UK pubs are increasingly losing out to coffee shops when it comes to customer visits, with a million less adults visiting pubs last year, a research company has said. Over 3.6m more adults are going to coffee shops in 2017 than they did in 2010, marking a 43% surge in their popularity, while over the…
No Brexit hangover for Le Pain Quotidien as UK sales hit £38m
Cafe and bakery chain Le Pain Quotidien increased its UK turnover 11% by to £38.2m last year, it annual accounts show. The company opened three stores in 2016, taking its estate to 28 units. Pre-tax profits fell from £987,000 to £907,000. “This year increasing sales and maintaining margin has been the primary focus,” the directors…
Rapid coffee shop market expansion could see sector grind to a halt
The blistering level at which coffee outlets are growing could mean an end to the ‘coffee shop revolution’ if a new generation of baristas is not recruited. That’s according to a new report which has warned that whilst there are 150,000 baristas working in the UK, a further 40,000 will be needed in the…
D&D London to open second Bluebird site at former BBC television centre
D&D London has announced that it has concluded agreements with Stanhope to open a Bluebird Café this winter at Television Centre, the former home of the BBC in White City, West London. Bluebird has been an important restaurant, café and retail venue on the Kings Road in the heart of Chelsea for 20 years. Originally…
Burglars strip café of all its catering equipment five days after opening
A new café in Hull has been left devastated after burglars broke in and stole all its catering equipment, five days after it opened for business. Thieves broke into Café la Pierre and made off with thousands of pounds worth of kitchen equipment, as well as the till, a TV and other items. Humberside Police…
Second Cup Coffee on a roll with café openings
Canadian coffee brand Second Cup Coffee Company has officially opened its newest UK café in London with seating for over 50 guests, across from the Putney Exchange and within walking distance of the Thames. This comes hard on the heels of a new site opened in Harrow’s St Ann’s Shopping Centre. The Canandian chain intends…
