Young’s pub group starts fast-casual business
Young’s Brewery has revealed it will open a new burger concept this month aimed at giving it a presence in the fast-casual dining market. Branded ‘The Burger Shack’, the concept includes a roving...
View ArticleYoung’s raises glass to 8% rise in food sales
Young & Co.’s Brewery has said trading in the first three months of its new financial year has “started well”, with managed house sales up 8% in total and 6% on like-for-like basis. Young’s...
View ArticleYoung’s makes plans for change in leadership
Pub chain Young’s will promote its retail director, Patrick Dardis, to chief executive later this year as it waves goodbye to outgoing boss Stephen Goodyear. Dardis will take over on 5 July, at the end...
View ArticleYoung’s transforms Burger Shack into standalone business
Young’s has converted one of its pubs into a standalone ‘Burger Shack’ following the success of the brand since its inception and hinted that there are more in the pipeline. The company has opened six...
View ArticleROUNDTABLE DEBATE: How do you convince chefs to care about water treatment?
New research shows that almost 60% of professional chefs consider their understanding of water treatment to be poor or average, exposing a serious knowledge gap that could be hugely detrimental to an...
View ArticleYoung’s: ‘Business rates review will cost us £1.8m’
Young’s pub group revealed today that the government’s recently announced revaluation of rateable values could cost it £1.8 m a year. The group, which operates almost 300 managed and tenanted sites,...
View ArticleAUTUMN BUDGET: Operators tell Philip Hammond they are braced for margin pressure
Pubs and restaurants have “cautiously welcomed” new business rates relief unveiled in the Autumn Budget today, but warned that wholesale change to the business rate system is still required. The...
View ArticleYoung’s tech launch aims to transform pub experience
Premium pub and hotel company Young’s has launched what it hopes will be a revolutionary new mobile app, ‘Young’s On Tap’, which aims to transform the pub experience for all its customers. Customers...
View ArticleLondon operators enjoy 3% boost as rest of UK sees damp March trading
Restaurant and pub groups in London saw a 3% increase in like-for-like sales last month compared with the rest of the country which collectively suffered a 0.5% decrease in sales. According to a new...
View ArticleYoung & Co reports 9% revenue growth following £38m investment
Young & Co, which own’s Young’s, Geronimo and Ram Pub Company, has reported an overall revenue growth of 9%, with all its brands achieving high single digit growth. Its revenue was £267m as it...
View ArticleYoung’s Pubs names Adande refrigeration as ‘most innovative kitchen product’
Adande refrigeration drawers have been the most innovative and useful product for Young’s pub sites. That’s according to Young’s’ group executive chef, Chris Knights, who has said in terms of the...
View ArticleDATA JUST OUT: Fall in pub and restaurant groups exposes ‘flat’ market
Britain’s managed pub and restaurant market experienced a dip in trading in May, with operators recording collective like-for-like sales down 0.4% compared to the same month last year, latest figures...
View ArticleYoung’s becomes a conveyor belt for budding chefs after securing coveted...
Young’s has been awarded ‘employer provider status’, allowing the premium pub group to be an official ‘training provider’ for apprentices. The move will allow Young’s to deliver all its training...
View ArticleYoung’s challenges chefs to put their own style on pub menus
Young’s chefs will continue to be “challenged” to put their own stamp on menus despite the cost pressures inflicted upon the pub chain’s kitchens. Like most operators in the sector, Young’s is facing...
View ArticleYoung’s gives kitchen teams licence to innovate and seize new food opportunities
Pub chain Young’s might operate nearly 200 sites but its chefs are encouraged to be entrepreneurial and take ownership of their menu offerings, its group executive chef has said. Chris Knights, who...
View ArticlePANEL DISCUSSION: Menu innovation challenges for multi-site operators
Keeping menus innovative and profitable is an ongoing challenge for pub and restaurant operators. At the recent Casual Dining Show in London, consultant, chef and author, Jay Morjaria, chaired a panel...
View ArticleYoung’s admits costs pressures are easing as trading picks up
Young & Co said this morning that trading in the current year had “started well”, with managed house sales for the first 13 weeks up 9% in total and 5% on a like-for-like basis. Chairman Stephen...
View ArticleWATCH: Pub chain Young’s releases poignant short film to mark reopening of sites
Young’s is marking the reopening of 144 pubs for al fresco dining next week by releasing an emotive short film directed by Emmy award-winner, Peter Hamblin. Entitled ‘A House is Not a Home’, the film...
View Article‘Our motto is little and often’– why Young’s likes to do pub kitchens...
Young’s Pubs has completed another round of training for chefs as part of an ongoing programme to replace legacy combi ovens across its estate. As a great British pub company with a focus on fresh...
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