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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...
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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....
...Elsewhere in food, chefs are paying more attention to plating meals and cafés say foods such as avocado on toast have soared in popularity because of their looks, not their taste....
...Pre-tax losses at Tragus, which also owns Cafe Rouge and Bella Italia, nearly doubled to £36m in the year ending June 2013, mainly because of interest on debt....
...Mr Osmond, who also founded Punch Taverns, is paying £37m for the Strada brand and 43 restaurants from the Café Rouge owner, Tragus Group....
...Waterstones has spent millions of pounds refurbishing its 290 stores, adding cafés and trying to emulate local bookstores by giving store managers more control....
...He said, “sitting in cafés in London waiting to go on the Eurostar and then in Paris, I would see such a different idea of the French and English woman. I liked the idea of the hybrid.”...
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