Daphne Lee

Apr 5, 2024 | cgastrategy.com | Daphne Lee

Dishoom has confirmed an opening for its Permit Room all-day bar and café concept on Trinity Street in Cambridge. The Permit Room first launched in Brighton. Dishoom has run a food delivery service in Cambridge since 2021. Seafood group Rockfish has submitted plans to open a new restaurant in Budleigh Salterton in east Devon. It plans to take over and expand the Longboat Café in the town. Rockfish currently has eight restaurants, with more openings lined up for Salcombe, Sidmouth and Topsham.

Apr 5, 2024 | cgastrategy.com | Daphne Lee

Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere; the frost is melting, the days are lengthening, and there are signs of new life all around. Garden tools are being wiped down and the faint buzz of bumblebees is returning as daffodils awake from their slumber. Yes, nature is telling us to start afresh ahead of warmer days to come. And it is in this context of a ‘great re-set’ that I have been pondering recently about what an On Premise strategy would look like if we were to start again from scratch.

Mar 28, 2024 | cgastrategy.com | Daphne Lee

Shake Shack is to open at St Pancras in London in the summer—its first site at a UK train station. Shake Shack currently has 18 sites in the UK. The Individual Restaurants Group’s Italian brand Piccolino is opening on the high street in Marlow in the summer, in a unit previously run by the group as the Marlow Bar & Grill. US-based Mexican brand Chipotle opened on Tottenham Court Road in London this week—its 19th location in the UK.

Mar 15, 2024 | cgastrategy.com | Daphne Lee

Here are just seven of his top takeaways for suppliers. 1 Costs impacting leaders’ confidenceCGA’s latest Business Confidence Survey shows 57% of leaders currently feel confident about their business over the next 12 months. This is down by five percentage points from October 2023, but is ten percentage points higher than at the start of 2023. The dip in confidence over the last quarter reflects the financial challenges facing hospitality, with concerns about costs in many areas—especially labour.

Mar 15, 2024 | cgastrategy.com | Daphne Lee

All-day group Caravan is opening by the Aviva Studios in the St John’s district in Manchester in the summer. The 10,000 square feet venue with 200 covers will be Caravan’s first launch outside London, where it has eight locations. Boxpark has announced it will open its new venue at the Cains Brewery Village in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle on 19 April. The 21,000 square feet site with capacity for 1,500 people will host eight independent food and drink operators plus live event space.