Hints and tips:
...I’m also a fan of dinner at Cumulus Inc in the CBD [Central Business District]....
...Panera has more than 2,000 bakery-cafes across the US and Canada. Boston-based Au Bon Pain operates about 300 locations in the US and globally....
...This in turn is designed to support his new focus on eight “power brands,” including Ambrosia, Hovis and Mr Kipling cakes....
...Barnsley has Billington Holdings, the structural steel company that has just won a contract to refurbish the famous Café Royal in London, and some of the UK’s biggest bakeries....
...Our group’s instructor is Joe Kelly, an Irish-American who worked for the famous Boudin Bakery in San Francisco and is now opening his own store in Enniskillen....
...The markets include elements such as cafés serving Latino pastries and coffee, and full service meat and fish counters....
...Ron Shaich, founder and CEO of Panera Bread, argues that his chain of bakery cafés has proved “recession resistant” because of an already strong differentiated “value proposition”....
...Yo Sushi is running a 40 per cent promotion offer, while Pizza Express, Carluccio’s and Café Rouge are among those running two- for-one offers....
...The Chaperral Café was also doing a sort-of poll, between the Democratic Breakfast, flapjacks, and the Republican Breakfast, two eggs and bacon. Who’s winning, I asked?...
...Premier Foods, which makes Hovis bread and Ambrosia Devon custard, said annualised commodity cost inflation for 2007 was $75m....
...When Marc Bolland pays for coffee in the Morrison café and takes his change with the sign-off “thank you love”, it is impossible not to double-take....
...Apart from western fast food chains such as McDonald’s and Domino’s Pizza and emerging Indian coffee shops such as Café Coffee Day, options for mid-range meals at branded restaurants are limited....
...For a more traditional French bakery and café, try Payard (1021 Lexington Ave, 212 717 5252).”...
...Panera has 976 bakery-cafes, of which 353 are company-operated and 623 are owned by franchisees. Next month it plans to open its 1,000th location. “This is the early innings of our growth....
...Panera traces its origins to Au Bon Pain, a “bakery-café” founded in 1981 by Louis Kane and Ron Shaich, a former treasurer of the Massachusetts Democratic party....
...A film studio operates out of a disused bakery across the street and two more loft developments are under construction....
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