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Consumer Confidence

We report on consumer confidence trends and how they influence spending habits across the UK foodservice and hospitality sector. This features our coverage of economic sentiment, household budgets, discretionary spend patterns, and the wider behavioural shifts affecting restaurant, pub, café, and catering trade. Whether you’re planning pricing strategies, forecasting sales, or adjusting marketing efforts, our reporting links consumer psychology to trading outcomes, helping foodservice operators make informed commercial decisions in a changing economic environment.

Consumer Confidence

We report on consumer confidence trends and how they influence spending habits across the UK foodservice and hospitality sector. This features our coverage of economic sentiment, household budgets, discretionary spend patterns, and the wider behavioural shifts affecting restaurant, pub, café, and catering trade. Whether you’re planning pricing strategies, forecasting sales, or adjusting marketing efforts, our reporting links consumer psychology to trading outcomes, helping foodservice operators make informed commercial decisions in a changing economic environment.

1 in 9 hospitality roles remain vacant despite recruitment efforts

One in nine hospitality jobs remain vacant despite some recent improvements in recruitment,…

Contract catering Q3 sales up 41% but remain below 2019 levels

Sales in the contract catering sector have increased 41% between July and September this…

Fulham Shore H1 revenues up 35% on pre-Covid levels

Revolution Bars returns to profit

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The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) has written to the secretary of state for BEIS and…

Number of pubs falls by over 7,000 in past decade

The number of English and Welsh pubs fell below 40,000 for the first time during the first…

Just 1 in 3 hospitality business running a profit, industry leaders find

The profitability of hospitality businesses across the UK is “plummeting” with only 37%…

Rail strikes to cost hospitality £540m in lost sales

Revolution Bars Group to open first new sites in four years

Revolution Bars Group, the operator of Revolution, Revolución de Cuba, Playhouse and…
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