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...Italy invented the pizza, for example, but still does not have a large pizza chain. The concept of the coffee bar is Italian in origin, but the country is not home to a significant coffee chain....
...And I’m proud to play [my] part in doing that with everyone else.”...
...Early restaurants on the app included mid-market chains such as Yo! Sushi and Ping Pong, a cut above the pizzas typically found on existing delivery websites....
...While Deliveroo touts flexibility as an advantage, for full-time couriers such as Joe, “you have to work when it’s busy”....
...Loyal customers head here for the iced French cruller doughnuts (they sell out by noon), fruit tarts and soufflés, as well as freshly baked pizzas....
...“It’s not an easy time for Hong Kong full stop but of the Hong Kong institutions, HKEX is one of those that is doing relatively well on the back of Chinese listings, and has even snatched a bit of business...
...Chains that are doing well, such as Nando’s and Wagamama, are perceived as good value for money, added Mr Shirley....
...Luigi Consiglio, founder of consultants GEA and a food industry expert, said pizza and gelato are two of the most profitable retail operations involving low food cost, low labour cost and relatively high...
...This suggests Schroders’ diversification across types of business — with wealth management added to asset management for institutions and intermediaries — is also helping to smooth performance, much as its...
...business....
...Nevertheless, both Wagamama and Hakkasan adhered to Yau’s restaurant template: design and service are as crucial as the food. “Doing amazing food is a given,” explains Yau....
...“One can almost hear Partners across the business singing the song ‘You Don’t Know What You’re Doing.’”...
...In 1963, the chairman of Unilever Ltd told the Observer newspaper that the group was like “a fleet of ships” with “the ships many different sizes, doing all kinds of different things”....
...Charlie Brooks’s own defence counsel described him as capable of doing “daft” things – he had once drunk a bottle of Fairy Liquid as a hangover cure, the trial heard – but he was not a criminal mastermind...
...The event entitled South Korea’s Quest for Creative Economy, will discuss the country’s reliance on, technology and innovation companies such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai FT Report Latin America: Doing Business...
...Many farmers face great pressure to keep costs as low as possible or risk being forced from the business. Fairtrade, a standard-setting body, uses cocoa to illustrate the point....
...According to Peter Martin, who runs the Coffer Peach Business Tracker of 25 pub and restaurant groups, discounting is on the increase as the mid-market sector becomes more cut-throat....
...That could be a perilous strategy for a FTSE 100 business beset by demands for a break-up....
...Owners of chains selling pizzas, burgers and burritos are doing well and recycling returns into ever more stores. Domino’s Pizza has 700 locations in the UK....
...Chang Sea-jin, a professor of business at the National University of Singapore, argues that the company will remain strong as long as it can reduce any commercial contest into the production of hardware...
...It’s very difficult to rebrand your [fixed line] business when it’s associated with a monopoly, and give it the same name as an innovative mobile brand....
...It need not even be a sit down meal: as Mr Harden says, “A decent sandwich is better than a terrible pizza or an overdone steak.”...
...As he picks up a slice of pizza, Alli recounts how he got involved in politics as a teenager, making Labour party connections in the British Youth Council and helping the party battle its Militant wing in...
...As she points out, her father “definitely had his own way of doing things”....
...That year it also retreated from non-pub restaurants, shedding its 50 per cent stake in Pizza Hut UK; in 2007, it sold TGI Fridays....
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