Deliveroo has announced that it will relaunch its revamped corporate offering, ‘Deliveroo for Business’, with aims to provide food delivery services to over 7,000 corporate customers in 15 minutes. The service, which launched in September 2016, is being extended with the addition of new features and services. Deliveroo said it…
Read More »Business
The Business section on Catering Today delivers comprehensive coverage of the commercial landscape shaping the UK hospitality and catering industry. It reports on company performance, acquisitions, investments, market movements, and leadership changes across restaurants, pubs, and catering groups. With analysis of financial trends, growth strategies, and sector forecasts, Catering Today provides hospitality professionals with the intelligence needed to understand market dynamics and make informed business decisions in a competitive environment.
Star Pubs & Bars has appointed a dedicated wine category buyer, Roberta Neave, to increase the company’s category support to licensees and to broaden and upgrade its wine range. Neave was formerly employed by Tesco as a wine buyer and part of her remit with Star is to make it…
Read More »
The Boot pub in Freston, Suffolk has claimed to be the first traditional pub in Britain to go cashless. The pub only accepts payments by card or phone, there is no minimum spend and the landlord claimed its decision to go cashless had “pipped [London] to the post”. The Boot,…
Read More »
Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups saw collective like-for-like sales edge up 0.6% in August, latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker show. Managed pubs saw collective like-for-likes grow 0.2% against August last year, while restaurant groups were up 1.4% for the month. This showed a recovery from June…
Read More »
The government has announced it is to give rural pubs £70,000 in funding to provide new or expanded services. More than 30 rural communities are set to benefit from new or expanded village services from libraries, shops to post offices all delivered by their local pub. The government says the…
Read More »
Pub group JD Wetherspoon has posted a modest like-for-like sales growth of 5% for the year ending 29 July 2018. The discount pub chain’s revenue increased to £1.69bn from £1.66bn when compared with the previous year. The company’s profit before tax rose to £89m from £76.4m in 2017 and it…
Read More »
Brewer and hospitality firm SA Brain and Co has joined Hospitality Cymru’s portfolio of high street household licensing names. Hospitality Cymru, part of UKHospitality, was forged earlier this year from a merger between hotels and restaurant representatives, British Hospitality Association (BHA) and the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR). The…
Read More »
Britain has 3,116 fewer restaurants, pubs, bars and other licensed premises than 12 months ago, according to the latest Market Growth Monitor, from CGA and AlixPartners. The report showed there were 119,800 licensed sites across the country in June 2018 – a fall of 2.5% since June 2017. On average,…
Read More »
Healthy fast food chain Leon is set to expand into America, opening in Washington next week (week commencing 10 September) with plans to open 20 more US restaurants by 2020. The British company had originally planned the opening of its first US restaurant for 20 August, with the reason for…
Read More »
Greene King has seen its shares rise this morning following the release of positive sales figures for the quarter which saw like-for-like sales rise by 2.8%. Growth at the company sat at 3.2% for the last ten weeks as Greene King’s local pubs traded well seeing comparable sales rise by…
Read More »