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...It could also help raise standards: in recent years auditors have missed serious financial problems that have caused the collapse of businesses including outsourcer Carillion, retailer BHS and café chain...
...She “took the soul of all that” back to Hong Kong, recreating an outpost of the Café Carlyle, nightly jazz and all. It still, she says, has a waiting list for membership in the hundreds....
...Last month, TRG offloaded its Frankie and Benny’s and Chiquito chains to Cafe Rouge owner Big Table group, saying it would pay its rival £7.5mn to take the lossmaking businesses, along with around £50mn...
...The attached Bel Café is a lovely little spot for a takeaway coffee and a pastry, while Reflections, the hotel’s fourth-floor alfresco terrace, serves small plates and craft cocktails alongside a good selection...
...— who was fresh from yelling that very slogan, along with other unpublishable Italian words, in the basement of his craft beer pub during the screening of a Verona-Lazio match....
...Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Case in point: Elliott’s 2018 victory at hotel and restaurant multinational Whitbread, when the activist used an — albeit uncharacteristic — gentle approach to get its way and spin off the group’s Costa café...
...Juve now has perhaps 14m supporters, more than Milan, Inter, Lazio and Torino combined, writes Sykes. It is also Italy’s most hated club....
...Blackstone: under the arches A lot of Londoners have a soft spot for the city’s Victorian railway arches, which house everything from hipster cafés to mechanics’ workshops. Blackstone likes them too....
...It is designing cafés with awnings that can protect people from heat or cold (with, yes, more sensors) and underground tunnels through which robots can deliver goods to apartments....
...Café Coffee Day outlets have become popular hang-outs in India, an aspirational nation emerging on the global scene....
...We leave you with this quote from Chloe’s piece: “We support him because he’s Lebanese,” said Elie Ghosn, whose family has run the Ghosn café since 1902 and whose grandfather was the cousin of Carlos Ghosn...
...In smart neighbourhoods, a clutch of new boutique hotels has sprouted up, including the seven-room Seku Bi, named after the parrots in the garden, and La Demeurea, a simple B&B above a café and design shop...
...As the owner of a record store opposite the proposed campus site told local media, “a hipster café will always be able to pay more rent”....
...Co-working spaces in Beijing often provide communal kitchens, cafés and even built-in gyms that can be accessed using a mobile wallet....
...Department stores (-0.6 per cent), cafes, restaurants and takeaways (-0.1 per cent), and clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (-0.1 per cent) also fell....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include China Gas, Cafe de Coral, DyDo and Far East Consortium....
...To overcome this, he says, HTC is investing in VR cafés in China — a 2017 version of cyber cafés, where users can play games using VR headsets....
...“All my players, in the beginning, want a restaurant, a hotel or a café. I come from the restaurant business and I say, ‘Don’t come to me with that, zero. Because I know what that is.’”...
...In the café of a posh Dublin hotel, in a city that still bears the scars of its spectacular property crash, Michael O’Flynn says he feels not so much chastened as vindicated....
...Real Velo Café Racer T-shirt, £30; Service Course T-shirt, £30. real-velo.com 27 In her own words, Rebecca J Kaye is an “image-maker with an obsession with cycling”....
...Redchurch Street in Shoreditch is now full of upmarket shops, seeking the custom of the hip millennials who populate the area’s offices, bars and cafés....
...smartphone ownership has soared in Southeast Asia, Mr Bithos says the average user only connects to expensive and unreliable mobile internet eight times a month and that many rely on WiFi networks at work or in cafés...
...- “New Zealand Prime Minister John Key publicly apologised on Wednesday to a waitress who labelled him a “schoolyard bully” for repeatedly pulling her ponytail on visits to her cafe....
...The Czech football coach, Zdeněk Zeman, who then managed Lazio in Rome, soon convinced the hesitant young footballer to take the risk and brought him into his team....
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