{"id":155189,"date":"2017-02-06T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=155189"},"modified":"2017-02-06T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:08:02","slug":"new-uk-restaurants-are-coming-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/155189\/new-uk-restaurants-are-coming-to-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"New UK restaurants coming to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold Brands – which owns the Chesanyama and Black Steer brands in South Africa – has entered into a R830,000 agreement to bring several UK restaurants\u00a0into the country.<\/p>\n

The group will pay\u00a0\u00a350,000 as an up-front fee to the UK’s Casual Dining Group (CDG) to develop the latter’s brands in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The Casual Dining Group\u00a0operates nearly 300 UK mid-market restaurant brands including Caf\u00e9 Rouge, Bella Italia and Las Iguanas, and claims to be one of the UK\u2019s leading, most established and fastest-growing \u00a0restaurant groups.<\/p>\n

The proposed franchise business for the\u00a0South Africa would be operated and maintained by the Gold Brands,\u00a0with strict adherence to the CDG\u2019s business model, the group said.<\/p>\n

GBI will pay CDS a Royalty fee of 6% of top line sales (net of VAT and Other sales taxes) and it will also pay CDS a Restaurant opening fee of \u00a315 000 on the opening of each CDS restaurant.<\/p>\n

“This is a long-term strategic decision that ultimately benefits Gold Brands as being part of a global and world-class brand will provide access to a host of global resources including best operating \u00a0practices and new products,” the company said in a statement on Monday (6 February).<\/p>\n

These are the brands which you may soon see on SA shores:<\/p>\n

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Las Iguanas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Las Iguanas is a South American based restaurant brand which draws on the colour palette of the tropics, fresh and homely food and a vintage Latin culture. There are currently 55 operating restaurants in the UK.<\/p>\n

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Caf\u00e9 Rouge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Caf\u00e9 Rouge was launched in London back in 1989. Today, Caf\u00e9 Rouge is the only established \u00a0French casual dining brand in the UK.<\/p>\n

Now with over 90 restaurants in the UK, and a newly opened site in Dubai, UAE, the brand serves six million meals each year.<\/p>\n

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Bella Italia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Bella Italia is a\u00a0contemporary Italian dining experience, with over 110 restaurants, and more opening all the time, serving authentic Italian food coupled with generous portions means that Bella Italia has the formula for success.<\/p>\n

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Belgo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Belgo is famed for its huge selection of Belgian beers and its range of mussel dishes. \u00a0There are currently six company owned stores operating in the UK serving 300,000 customers every year.<\/p>\n

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Read: Why this South African fast food franchise had to review its model after opening 300 stores in four years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gold Brands – which owns the Chesanyama and Black Steer brands in South Africa – has entered into a R830,000 agreement to bring several UK restaurants into the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":155203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,9876],"tags":[11749,26],"class_list":["post-155189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-lifestyle","tag-gold-brands-investments","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155189"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155225,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155189\/revisions\/155225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}