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Taking Subway Down

Found by on Saturday, 12th March 2011
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» Lisa Markwell, The Independent

Top critic tries and fails to find something nice to say about Subway

I would like to think I'm not a food snob: in my job as a restaurant reviewer I've visited Heston Blumenthal and Pizza Hut and found points to favour and to criticise in both. But I've avoided Subway until now. I'd thought it was a sandwich bar, and a sandwich is a sandwich, right? Wrong. My visit yesterday revealed that these are no sandwiches, that Subway's slogan "Eat fresh" is scandalously misleading, and that it may be fast, but it certainly ain't cheap.

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Garfunkels Still a Recipe for Profits

Found by on Wednesday, 9th March 2011
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» sharecast

Well at least we now know who eats there…

Tourists flocking to its Garfunkel’s outlets in Central London helped The Restaurant Group come though the weather, ash clouds and recession last year in decent shape. Profits in 2010 rose by 17% to £56.5m, from £48.3m, on revenues up 7% at £466m. Like-for-like sales fell by 1%. TRG’s food outlets, Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito, Garfunkel's and pub restaurants, performed well, delivering a 6% increase in revenues and profits, though Garfunkel’s put in a “superb” performance the company said.

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