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      <news:title><![CDATA[Uncorked: Simon Piovesan]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[High noon: why the battle for lunch trade is intensifying ]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Subway reveals new blueprint to help  double its footprint in EMEA]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[The Beefy Boys to open eighth UK restaurant in Cambridge ]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Foster Gamko reveals new KORE range of commercial refrigeration]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Angel Zapata Martin joins Brindisa Tapas as chef director]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Turnover and profits rise at Hawksmoor ]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Common Table Group to acquire 57 former  Whitbread sites]]></news:title>
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      <image:caption><![CDATA[Tom joined Kerridge’s in 2019 as junior sous chef and has risen through the kitchen to become head chef of both Georgie’s Bar and Kerridge’s.]]></image:caption>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[The Wolseley Members Club to open in New York]]></news:title>
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