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...Alice Birch’s pungent new version also emphasises its psychological terrain....
...Two of the UK’s largest pub groups have warned that cost pressures are a “major challenge” to the industry and have forced them to axe discounts, reduce energy use and simplify their menus.Mitchells & Butlers...
...“Cost headwinds present a significant challenge to the industry, particularly those costs related to utilities, wages and food,” said Mitchells & Butler’s chief executive Phil Urban....
...“If people don’t come out because it’s too expensive that’s bad,” said pub group Mitchells & Butlers’ chief executive, Phil Urban....
...Captained by head butler Jean-Baptiste Crabit, an earnest blue-eyed Frenchman, the team offers much more than unparalleled room service to guests....
...“Normally at the end of January there is a bit of ‘Wahey, thank God we’re paid’ [moment], so we’re hoping for that again,” said Phil Urban, chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers....
...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, has warned that a sharp increase in utility bills could severely hamper its recovery as it reported a return to profit for the first time since the...
...“We don’t want to be first mover,” said Phil Urban, chief executive of pub and restaurant group Mitchells & Butlers, whose brands include Harvester and All Bar One....
...Similarly well-timed is Oliver Bullough’s Butler to the World, in which he draws a sharp line from the end of Britain’s empire to the complex web of legal, property and financial services that enable, butler-like...
...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, has returned to profits since the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions but warned that rising utility and labour costs would hamper its recovery....
...Mitchells & Butlers was up 4 per cent, while Young’s gained 1 per cent....
...Like-for-like sales during August and September were 8.7 per cent below the same period in 2019, in contrast to pub groups such as Mitchells & Butlers, which last month said that sales over the summer were...
...are expecting fewer big office parties: venues that would typically have big office parties and do £300,000 a week I can’t see that happening this year,” said Phil Urban, chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers...
...pent-up demand to visit pubs, Wetherspoon said that like-for-like sales during August and September were 8.7 per cent below the same period in 2019, in contrast to rival pub groups such as Mitchells & Butlers...
...Phil Urban, chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, said that permitting double-vaccinated people to avoid quarantine would allow older members of teams to stay in work...
...Gambling operators are bracing for another round of tough UK regulation, our leisure correspondent Alice Hancock reports....
...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, is considering raising equity after the country’s third lockdown delivered another blow to the hospitality sector....
...Reporting by Delphine Strauss, Sarah Neville, Alice Hancock, Jim Pickard, Philip Georgiadis, Ian Johnston and Harry Dempsey...
...Mitchells & Butlers, the pub group that has about 1,700 sites, said it had to close 40 properties over the past week due to lack of staff. Rival Greene King has had to shut 26....
...lost quite a few of the team [and because of furlough] it is not until now that operators have realised that they may not have all the staff come back,” said Phil Urban, chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers...
...Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub company, has said it plans to raise £350m through a share placing in a move that in effect puts its largest shareholders in control of the company....
...Phil Urban, chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, which operates 1,700 pubs across the UK, said the sector had been blindsided by the “lack of dialogue and lack of compensation” from government and that...
...Phil Urban, chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, said the weather had been so good since venues in England were allowed to reopen to outdoor drinkers on April 12 that...
...Mitchells & Butlers said it had cut 1,300 jobs in the past two months as the UK pub group warned that pandemic-related trading restrictions cast doubt over the group’s ability to continue as a going concern...
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