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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.

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…

Drinks sales dip in ‘soggy’ end to April

Drinks sales in managed venues for the week to last Saturday (27 April) saw a…

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…

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…

Darwin and Wallace sales rise 1.8% in ‘challenging’ year

Darwin and Wallace, the operator of eight Greater London bar-restaurants, has reported a…

Liberation Group revenues hit £140m

Liberation Group, a privately owned premium pub operator and brewing group, has reported a…

CGA warns border checks threaten deceleration of foodservices inflation

Apprehensions are growing about a resurgence in inflation as a result of new border checks…

UK pubs see drinks sales growth in 2024, CGA finds

Britain’s pubs and bars have started 2024 with year-on-year growth in drinks sales, CGA by…

Closures slow after licensed premises drop below 100,000

The number of licensed premises in Britain has fallen by 3.6% over the last 12 months to…

UK managed groups see 12 months of growth, CGA finds

Britain’s managed restaurant, pub and bar groups completed 12 consecutive months of…
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