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Irish Examiner
13 hours ago
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Profits and revenues surge at family-run fast food operator Dino's
Pre-tax profits at the Cork-based fast food operator, Dino's, last year increased more than fourfold to €708,948. Accounts filed by the Cregan family-run Dino's Group Ltd show that the group recorded the jump in profits as revenues rose by 8% from €7.43m to €8.03m in the 12 months to the end of July last. The group employs 160 and only last month expanded to open a new drive-thru in Midleton. It also has outlets at Ballincollig, Douglas, Blackpool, Bishopstown, Grange, Kinsale, and Turner's Cross. Director at the group, Noel Cregan said the increase in revenues and profits was achieved through organic growth with in-store footfall increasing year over year. The business also received a boost with third-party sales where Dinos-branded product is now available on the shelves of other retail outlets. Mr Cregan said: 'We have partnered with various wholesale distributors in Ireland to get our product on the shelves of local supermarkets." He said: '2022/23 was an exceptional year for raw material costs. For much of the year, potato prices had increased to an unsustainable level. Fortunately they have reverted somewhat, albeit still not at pre-pandemic levels. He said: 'Dino's are committed to using locally grown produce in our stores, and our potato supply comes specifically from farmers in east Cork. 'We offer the best quality and aim to be the best for value for money in the market. "Our aim is to remain the most competitive in the market among our competitors. Staff costs last year increased from €2.8m to €3.03m. The accounts show that the company has obtained bank funding for €2.275m for the construction and fit-out of its new drive-thru in Midleton. Mr Cregan said that the project has been in development for some time and to date, 'the new store has been a great success, and we are delighted to bring Dinos to Midleton and engage with the local community there'. The directors state that 'the group plans to concentrate on improving the profitability of its current business in the hot food takeaway retail sector and intends to expand the number of retail outlets in the next few years". Mr Cregan's parents, Denis and Mary, started the business in the early 1970s and Noel is one of seven Cregans involved in the business with 'five of us on a full-time basis and two on the periphery'. He said that his parents have 15 grandchildren 'and the ones that are old enough have all worked in the business at some point also'. Accumulated profits at the end of July 2024 totalled €5.93m. Cash funds increased from €512,361 to €602,792. Read More Cork publican Benny McCabe hails city revival with opening of The Fountain bar
Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Carter Co. Car Club Cruise-ins moved to Elizabethton High School parking lot
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Carter County Car Club has moved the start of its seasonal cruise-ins from downtown Elizabethton on East Elk Avenue to the parking lot of Elizabethton High School's (EHS) stadium due to the temporary closure of the Broad Street Bridge. The Broad Street Bridge has been closed since Hurricane Helene due to structural damage sustained from the storm. The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) originally said the bridge was slated to be back open in late May. That has now been pushed back to early July. A lot of traffic is now rerouted through downtown Elizabethton because of that closure. In the past, the cruise-ins have caused tension between downtown business owners and the car club. Some said it helped their business on Saturday evenings, while others said it hurt their sales instead. David Williams, a manager at Dino's Restaurant in downtown Elizabethton, said he doesn't think the car show being moved will affect Dino's revenue much. 'We would stay full pretty much from the time it started till the time we closed,' Williams said. 'But as far as the car show actually affecting our bottom line for it not being here, that will be negligible just because of the fact that I had to have so much extra help and had to prep so much extra food that it's kind of a wash in the end.' Prepping that much food wasn't always a win for Dino's on Saturday evenings. 'Then there are other times when the weather would have an effect, like it would be nice all day and we prepare all this food and then it would start raining about 4:30 [p.m.], and then the car show would get canceled. And then, unfortunately, at the end of the night, I'd have a bunch of food to throw out.' Williams believes his customers generally didn't have a problem with the weekly car cruise-ins. However, he said it might've kept some away. 'I think some of our regular customers just avoided downtown on car show nights just because it was so hectic. So, without the car show, more of our regular customers will probably come in on Saturdays. ' 'I never heard any complaints. Some just thought maybe having it every week for five, six months was maybe overkill. They would sometimes say, 'why don't they just have it twice a month or once a month?' Because they'd like to come down here more often on Saturday, but they just don't like fighting all the traffic and everything like that on Saturday nights when the car show's going on.' Whitney Johnson, owner of The Wicked Whit, said during the cruise-ins, she would stay open later. She also said she would get more foot traffic and make more sales during that time. News Channel 11 visited other businesses along East Elk Avenue about the change. They didn't want to speak on-camera, but said the change of pace is needed. 'I've not talked to anyone specifically, but I just heard rumblings that some of them love the car show, they love the atmosphere of it,' Williams said. 'And then others thought that they were actually losing business because of the parking situation and things like that.' Williams said the cruise-ins also helped bring in a lot of people from out of town. 'Some people came as far away as Virginia and North Carolina to come to the car show. So it was great having tourists in town. So I kind of wish it was still going on. But at the same time, as far as me personally, our business, it's not going to have a big effect on us.' The Carter County Car Club will have its first cruise-in of the year on May 31 in the EHS parking lot from 5 to 9 p.m. It will continue there every Saturday night until July. Jim Bass, President of the Carter County Car Club, said he hopes to move the cruise-ins back downtown after the Broad Street Bridge reopens. He will make a request to the Elizabethton City Council for the move. News Channel 11 will have an interview with members of the Carter County Car Club before their first cruise-in of the year. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Axios
31-01-2025
- Business
- Axios
Durham chef Matt Kelly to help open a pizza restaurant in University Hill
Matt Kelly, one of Durham's most prominent chefs behind restaurants like Nanas and Mateo, and Tom Cuomo, who previously worked at the renowned Carbone restaurant in New York, plan to open a new pizza restaurant in Durham together this spring. Why it matters: The collaboration brings back a partnership that was forged at Kelly's beloved seafood restaurant Saint James, where Cuomo was the chef. Saint James closed unexpectedly in 2022 after a developer filed plans to redevelop the property. The latest: Kelly and Cuomo plan to open the pizza shop — named Dino's — in Durham's University Hill district inside the former BB's Crispy Chicken space. Kelly told Axios that the goal is to bring a new "family restaurant" to Durham and invest in Cuomo, whom he has wanted to work with since Saint James. "I love working with Tom," he said. What to expect: Kelly told Axios that the menu will focus on many of the Italian American favorites of Cuomo's native New Jersey, like pizza, hoagies, chicken parms and made-to-order pizzas. It will also have salads and Buffalo-style wings, an ode to Kelly's western New York background. The restaurant space will include a wall of televisions and a large outdoor patio, and it'll offer delivery service. The goal is to be open seven days a week by the start of the next NFL season, Kelly said. What they're saying: "The goal is to do simple pizza. Nothing too crazy. It will be an ode to places I went to as a kid in New ... something that is a throwback to the Italian red sauce joints of the 80s," Cuomo told Axios. Zoom in: Kelly said he and Cuomo have been experimenting with what type of pizza they will serve at Dino's for months. "During the week, work is all Nanas and then on Sunday and Mondays, I make doughs and [Cuomo] makes dough at his house and we throw pies," Kelly said. "Then we go into Alimentari, which has the same pizza oven that we will use at Dino's, and make about 25 pies." The end result of all that experimentation, Kelly said, is a pizza that "has the crisp of New Haven-style, the lightness of Neapolitan-style and the chewiness of a New York slice." Location: 3109 Shannon Road, Durham
