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...The ambitious private equity-backed group behind Arby’s sandwich shops and Buffalo Wild Wings is in talks to acquire Dunkin’ Brands for nearly $9bn....
...Inspire, based in Atlanta, controls $14.6bn in annual sales and 11,000 restaurants through a network of more than 1,400 franchisees....
...Members of the Knighthead group retreated to a celebratory dinner at a nearby Italian restaurant, Il Gabbiano....
...Former NBA basketball star Shaquille O’Neal, who joined Papa John’s board in March, also agreed to become its newest brand ambassador and invest in nine Papa John’s restaurants in the Atlanta area....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
...She first picked up the violin aged four, when her older sister, Stephanie — now violinist for the pop group Clean Bandit — decided she wanted to learn....
...Arby’s Restaurant Group has cooked up a deal to buy Buffalo Wild Wings in a pact valued at $2.9bn, including the chain’s net debt....
...In 2020, Accor Hotel Group is due to open the 150-bed, four-star Le Meztiva in town, while the French Sezz group, best known for its swanky five-star hotel in St Tropez, plans to open L’Hôtel Le Comte Capré...
...Investors were drawn to restaurant stocks on Tuesday after a move by Arby’s Restaurant Group to buy Buffalo Wild Wings at a significant premium set off speculation on which companies in the sector could...
...Just last month, Arby’s Restaurant Group agreed to buy Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.9bn, including debt, while Ruby Tuesday agreed to be taken private in a $146m deal in October....
...There has been “little to no” growth in visits to restaurants in the past two years, according to market researchers NPD Group, while trade publication QSR defined 2017 as the worst for restaurants since...
...Pizza sales rose two-thirds on the day of the England v Wales match alone, but were generally higher throughout the tournament....
...The group also has a minority stake in the influential Philippine Daily Inquirer. Although PLDT chairman Manuel V....
...They are entertaining and caring for children and old people, cleaning homes and preparing food in restaurants....
...It also hosted the unforgotten England v Argentina match of the 1998 World Cup....
...Micros provides point-of-sale devices (card readers and the like) as well as software (mostly the licensed kind) to restaurants and hotels....
...Britain’s seemingly insatiable appetite for coffee has lifted sales by a third at Benugo, the coffee bar and restaurant chain, that serves visitors to London’s V&A museum, the BFI Southbank and Edinburgh...
...Azerbaijan The Four Seasons group has opened its first hotel in the former USSR, a 171-room Beaux- Arts-style property in Baku, the Azeri capital....
...Frida Giannini, the creative director of Gucci, and Patrizio di Marco, the chief executive, are in the ornate restaurant of the George V hotel in Paris, posing for a portrait. They look uncomfortable....
...… Grounded in US The various jabs on Tuesday night by BA chairman Sir Martin Broughton on his favourite topic of overbearing US airport security checks included the story of a woman at O’Hare airport...
...Brinker International’s Chilis chain and the Wendy’s-Arby’s Group Arby’s chain suffered from declining sales in their restaurants....
...Perhaps, I suggest, familiarity with the menu in his wife’s restaurant has taken the edge off his appetite? “When Nic [my wife] created her first restaurant, we had all these tasting evenings....
...,” says Hare. “You needed doom and gloom to make people start looking at things from a new angle.”...
...Last March he became creative director of Puma, owned by the French group PPR, which also (oh, the irony) owns Gucci Group....
...The US restaurant business has been in a state of flux in recent years, as activist investors, as well as private equity groups, have circled some of the largest companies....
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