Pubs and Bars
The Pubs and Bars section on Catering Today covers the business developments, market trends, and operational challenges shaping the UK’s pub and bar sector. It reports on acquisitions, brand expansions, drinks innovation, and regulatory updates, alongside insights into staffing, sustainability, and consumer behaviour. With expert commentary and commercial analysis, Catering Today provides industry professionals with the intelligence needed to navigate a competitive and fast-evolving on-trade environment.
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Jan- 2022 -20 January
Modest growth seen in new site openings during Q4
Britain’s hospitality sector witnessed “modest” growth in the last quarter of 2021, with a 1.6% increase in site numbers between September and December 2021, marking the first quarter-on-quarter growth for more than five years. According to the new Market Recovery Monitor from CGA and AlixPartners, there was a particularly encouraging…
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20 January
Revolution Bars posts upbeat trading update
Revolution Bars Group, the operator of 67 premium bars, trading mainly under the Revolution and Revolucion de Cuba brands, has announced that like-for-like (LFL) sales for the majority of the half, from 19 July 2021, when restrictions were relaxed in England, to 13 November were very strong at +14% versus…
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20 January
Adventure Bar to bring Tonight Josephine to Cardiff
The Adventure Bar Group, the company behind venues such as Adventure Bar, Blame Gloria, Bar Elba and The Escapologist, have announced plans to launch its latest Tonight Josephine site in Cardiff. It revealed the Cardiff site will launch in March with the opening creating 30 new jobs. Formerly known as…
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19 January
Managed groups sales dip 11% in December
Britain’s managed restaurant, pub and bar sector suffered a double-digit drop in sales from pre-pandemic levels in December, following the widespread cancellations of Christmas celebrations, according to the latest Coffer CGA Business Tracker. The research found that total sales in the month were down by 11% on December 2019, following…
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19 January
Former Michellin-starred chef to head up The Horns Inn
Former Michelin-starred head chef, Sean Wrest, is to head up The Horns Inn, a new restaurant at a historic inn near Preston set to open in March 2022. It revealed Wrest left his role as head chef at Tommy Banks’ Roots in York last summer and since that time has…
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18 January
The Star Inn brought to market for £465k
The Star Inn, a pub-restaurant with letting rooms located in the village of Weaverthorpe, has come to market for £465k. The property is positioned to take advantage of the Yorkshire Wolds region and some of North Yorkshire’s most visited holiday resorts and tourist destinations. It comprises a 55-cover restaurant and…
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17 January
Brighton Pier Group H1 sales top £23m amid strong NY trading
Brighton Pier Group has reported total sales of £22.7m for the 26-week period ending 26 December 2021, up 177% on the same period in 2020. Whilst trading was impacted in December due to the restrictions announced by the government, over New Year the bars recovered, trading 9% higher than in…
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13 January
Hospitality recovery dampened by Omicron as December takes £3bn hit
The hospitality sector has suffered “devastating” sales falls in the last week of the year, according to the latest pub, bar and restaurant market figures from UKH and CGA. The wider hospitality sector witnessed a 40% drop in sales for the month versus the same period in 2019, as depleted…
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13 January
Mitchells and Butlers Q1 sales hit by Omicron impact
Mitchells and Butlers saw like-for-like sales decline by 6% during the 15-week period ending 8 January 2022 as the impact of the Omicron variant hit. The group said that the impact was particularly felt in the most recent four weeks, over the festive season, during which like-for-like sales have been…
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10 January
Nightcap sees H1 sales increase 46% to £15.5m
Nightcap has announced that during the 26-week period ending 26 December 2021, group net sales reached £15.5m. The results were 46.2% higher than in the same period in 2019 and showed a 22.4% like-for-like increase compared with the same period in 2019. Although more than 7,500 bookings for the Christmas…
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