Food and Drink

The latest news and updates on food, from the business journalists at Catering Today. We bring you the latest on what’s happening in the restaurants, bars and catering industry, with exclusive stories, analysis, best practice and industry comment.

  • Apr- 2022 -
    26 April
    Delivery and takeaway sales slip as consumers return to eating out

    Delivery and takeaway sales slip as consumers return to eating out

    Britain’s managed restaurant and pub groups’ delivery and takeaway sales fell 24% year-on-year after consumers resumed eating out, according to the CGA and Slerp Hospitality at Home Tracker. Groups’ combined delivery and takeaway sales in March 2022 were 119% higher than in March 2019. Three-year sales growth for deliveries stands…

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  • 25 April
    Gravity to open £10m leisure and F&B offering at Liverpool One

    Gravity to open £10m leisure and F&B offering at Liverpool One

    Leisure and entertainment company, Gravity Active Entertainment, has announced the opening of a flagship location that will house a “modern F&B offering” at Liverpool One. Following a £10m investment, Gravity said it is building on the “increased interest” in leisure experiences, with Liverpool One being the company’s flagship in its…

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  • 22 April
    Managed group sales up 4% in March despite inflation, data finds

    Managed group sales up 4% in March despite inflation, data finds

    Despite the high inflation, Britain’s managed restaurant, pub and bar groups achieved a 4% increase in like-for-like sales from pre-Covid-19 levels in March, according to the new Coffer CGA Business Tracker. It revealed the sales increase continues a “gradual upturn” this year, after a like-for-like drop of 1% in January…

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  • 19 April
    Recruitment and retention remain ‘major concern’ for hospitality

    Recruitment and retention remain ‘major concern’ for hospitality

    Staffing issues continue to set back hospitality’s recovery from Covid-19, according to new research from CGA and Fourth’s Business Leaders’ Survey. The poll shows “intense” competition for team members. Three in five (59%) say they will recruit at a greater rate than usual this year, an increase of 13 percentage…

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  • 14 April
    Boxpark to launch Boxhall City site in 2023

    Boxpark to launch Boxhall City site in 2023

    Boxpark has announced its Boxhall sibling concept is set to open next year, which will offer food and drink from local, independent food traders and restaurant operators. The company has agreed a 15-year lease with TfL, the site’s freehold owners, for the historic Metropolitan Arcade building which first opened in…

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  • 13 April
    Swingers to extend presence in the US and UK

    Swingers to extend presence in the US and UK

    Swingers has announced it is extending its crazy golf socialising experience in the US with the opening of its newest venue, Swingers NoMad, on Friday 17 June, as well as the extension of its original London site in London, West End. The New York City opening follows the success of…

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  • 12 April
    Foodservice inflation hits double-digits in February

    Foodservice inflation hits double-digits in February

    Cost pressures are intensifying as year-on-year inflation in the foodservice sector hit 10.2% in February 2022, according to the latest edition of the Foodservice Price Index from CGA and Prestige Purchasing. The double-digit increase was fueled by challenges including a surge in demand, the “lingering” impacts of Covid, additional costs…

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  • 6 April
    Carlo Scotto’s Amethyst to open in Mayfair this May

    Carlo Scotto’s Amethyst to open in Mayfair this May

    Carlo Scotto, previously head chef of Xier in Marylebone, has announced his new restaurant Amethyst will open this May on Mayfair’s Sackville Street. Spread over two floors, and at just 36-covers, the restaurant will offer an “intimate gastronomic” experience with interiors incorporating raw materials, concrete and wood to create a…

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  • 5 April
    Happy Face to open third London site this April

    Happy Face to open third London site this April

    Neapolitan pizza brand, Happy Face Pizza, continues its expansion in the capital with its third restaurant set to open in northwest London this month. The new site will be one of the first to open in the new Brent Cross Town development, bringing its “refined, authentic” Italian menu and signature…

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  • Mar- 2022 -
    31 March
    The Little Scarlet to open in Soho this summer

    The Little Scarlet to open in Soho this summer

    House-party inspired late night bar and restaurant concept, The Little Door and Co, will open its fourth site, The Little Scarlet Door, in Soho’s Greek Street on 6 June. Occupying a 2,200 sq ft space across two floors in the newly redeveloped, multi-use Ilona Rose House at 12-13 Greek Street,…

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