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.
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Aug- 2024 -28 AugustCatering Companies
Contract caterers achieve 10% sales growth in Q2
Contract caterers saw sales rise by 10% in Q2, marking its 13th quarter of growth in a row and an improvement rate of 7% recorded in the first quarter of this year, according to CGA by NIQ and Bidfood. Meanwhile, growth in moving annual total (MAT) sales – compared to…
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Jul- 2024 -15 JulyVenues & Properties
Market activity for pubs and restaurants improves in H1
Pub and restaurant market activity has seen an improvement in the first half of 2024 compared with the “subdued” levels seen last year, according to Christie and Co’s Pubs and Restaurants Mid-Year Market Insight report. It comes as the property adviser’s transactional metrics trended upwards since January this year, albeit…
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Jun- 2024 -19 JunePubs and Bars
Hospitality groups report 3.6% growth in May
Hospitality groups across Britain achieved year-on-year sales growth of 3.6% in May 2024, despite “disappointing” weather and the ongoing effects of inflation, the CGA has reported. According to the latest CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker, this marks a “quick return to growth” after a 1.7% drop in trading in April, which…
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4 JunePubs and Bars
Drinks sales drop 3% as rain returns
Drinks sales in the UK dropped 3% in the week ended 25 May, compared with the same period last year, as wet weather continued to dampen performance, according to data from CGA. Year-on-year sales plunged 22% after heavy rain on 22 May, and they were down by between 8% and…
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May- 2024 -23 MayFood and Drink
Hospitality YoY sales drop 1.7% due to more wet weather
Britain’s top hospitality groups saw sales drop 1.7% year-on-year in April after widespread wet weather, the new CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker has revealed. It comes as the first year-on-year drop in monthly sales since September 2022 and in sharp contrast with March, when the sector achieved 5.3% growth due…
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10 MayPubs and Bars
Pubs sales up 16.8% in wake of bank holiday weekend
Transactions at pubs, bars and clubs reached a 2024-high on Saturday 4 May, as the sunny weather and bank holiday weekend encouraged Brits to make a trip to their local area, according to Barclays Consumer Spend data. Transactions were up 16.8% in comparison to the previous Saturday, and 2.5x as…
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7 MayPubs and Bars
Drinks sales dip in ‘soggy’ end to April
Drinks sales in managed venues for the week to last Saturday (27 April) saw a “disappointing” end to April after generally solid trading over the spring, according to data from CGA Strategy. Although daily sales were up by 11% year-on-year on Sunday (21 April), thanks to a strong round of…
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Apr- 2024 -18 AprilFood and Drink
Hospitality sales rise 5.2% in March due to Easter boost
Britain’s top hospitality groups experienced above-inflation like-for-like sales growth of 5.2% in March, according to CGA and RSM latest Hospitality Business Tracker. While hospitality operators enjoyed the boost to trading that events such as Mother’s Day and St Patrick’s Day brought, the high growth metrics seen in the Tracker…
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Mar- 2024 -14 MarchFood and Drink
Hospitality sales rise ‘modest’ 1.4% in February
Top hospitality groups across the country saw modest like-for-like sales growth of 1.4% in February, according to the latest CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker. The data has shown a slow start to 2024 within the sector, following marginal growth of 0.1% in January in the wake of strong trading over…
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6 MarchRestaurants
Darwin and Wallace sales rise 1.8% in ‘challenging’ year
Darwin and Wallace, the operator of eight Greater London bar-restaurants, has reported a 1.8% rise in sales to £17.8m for the year ended 28 May 2023, despite macroeconomic challenges over the period. The group has attributed the erosion of its sales conversion and profits to an “incredibly” tight labour market…
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