RESTAURANTS, BARS & PUBS NEWS

The opening reflects a wider shift across global hospitality, where live-fire cooking and culturally rooted concepts are redefining restaurant strategy.

Firstly, the Iftar. Priced at AED 179 (US$49) per person, it combines culinary variety with the social warmth that defines Ramadan dining.

Documents reveal recurring patterns of evasion like “selective deletion of cash invoices,” where restaurants allegedly retained only a portion of cash entries while erasing the rest to reduce income tax and GST exposure.

By Charity Kamiro

By Emanuel Osinde, Reserve Brand Ambassador at EABL.

The redesigned restaurant forms part of Accor’s broader effort to elevate guest experiences through upgraded public spaces and new culinary concepts.

Papa Johns framed the rollout as a way to reduce complexity, standardize workflows, and create a unified data layer spanning menu changes, promotions, labor planning, and inventory management.

The focus now is on stabilizing traffic, optimizing the restaurant footprint, and executing the turnaround plan with discipline.

The company said the decline in quarterly net income was mainly due to a decrease in operating profit and other incomes, while reduced advertising funds revenue, franchise royalty revenue and franchise fees weighed on the top line.

The new lineup includes Mary Brown’s Chicken, the country’s fastest-growing fried chicken chain; OEB Kitchen + Bar, a breakfast-and-brunch concept famous for its creative eggs Benedict; and Libretto Slice Shop, serving up New York-style pizza by the slice.