Demand
Understand whatโs driving, or dampening, customer demand across restaurants, pubs, bars, cafรฉs, and contract catering. Our focused reporting features dining trends, footfall patterns, booking behaviour, menu shifts, delivery and takeaway volumes, and the wider economic factors impacting consumer spend in hospitality. Whether you’re adapting to shifting weekday trade, reacting to seasonal fluctuations, or planning promotional strategies, this archive offers data-driven insights to help operators, chefs, and F&B leaders align operations with real-time market dynamics.
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Dec- 2024 -20 DecemberCafes and Coffee Shops
New Cornish Bakery site sees โrecordโ trading in opening week
Cornish Bakeryโs 65th opening in Milton Keynes has โsurpassed all expectationsโ, taking a record-breaking ยฃ40k within its first week of trading.ย It comes as the new bakery opened to โunprecedentedโ demand, causing a queue of people to block the main flow of the shopping centre. Both the centre:mk and Cornish…
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16 DecemberCafes and Coffee Shops
Joe and the Juice to return to Manchester Arndale
Joe and the Juice has announced its return to the centre of Manchester, having signed a 10-year lease for a new 2,685 sq ft space at Manchester Arndale.ย The juice and coffee chain previously had a site in Debenhams, which had to close following the collapse of the department store…
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4 DecemberCafes and Coffee Shops
Costa Coffee and Freemans bring kiosk concept to London
A fleet of Costa Coffee kiosks are set to hit some of the UKโs biggest live events next year, as part of a deal between the company and Freemans Event Partners. The move builds on the success of the collaboration between Freemans Event Partners and Costa Coffee during the Summerโs…
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3 DecemberNews
South Indian-inspired restaurant Uyare to open at Victoria Leeds
Independent Indian restaurant operator, Tharavadu, is set to launch its brand-new restaurant concept, Uyare at Victoria Leeds.ย Blending the culinary heritage of South India and capturing the flavours of Kerala, Uyare is set to open in January 2025. Renowned in the region for its specialist South Indian cuisine and authentic…
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Nov- 2024 -27 NovemberNews
Contract caterersโ sales jump 7% in Q3
Britainโs contract caterersโ sales grew 7% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2024, the latest Contract Catering Tracker from CGA by NIQ and Bidfood reported.ย The figure was slightly behind the rate of 10% in Q2 of this year, but sales over the last 12 months have increased 9%. It…
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26 NovemberPubs and Bars
CAMRA criticises CMBCโs plans to delist 11 beers from pubs
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has reported that pubs will soon be unable to stock 11 beers, including Banksโs Mild, following the Carlsberg buy-out of the last of Marstonโs UK brewing operations. CAMRA has expressed concern that powerful global brewers could โhugely reduce consumer choice in the UKโ as…
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21 NovemberNews
Roseacre Pub Company acquires 10th site with new Star Pubs lease
Midlands-based Roseacre Pub Company has taken its seventh pub with Star Pubs, increasing its estate to 10 sites, with plans to expand further.ย Roseacre Pub Company and Star Pubs are now undertaking a joint ยฃ350,000 refurbishment of The Roseycombe in Binley Woods near Coventry prior to reopening the pub in…
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20 NovemberBusiness
Hospitality sales slow in October as cost pressures mount
Hospitality groups achieved year-on-year sales growth of just 0.6% in October, which marks the fourth month of below-inflation growth in a row โ meaning that data is currently at its lowest point since April, according to the CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker.ย The flattening of sales reflects fragile consumer confidence…
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11 NovemberRestaurants
Kin Restaurant to open in Fitzrovia
Reza and Mohammed Malekzadeh, co-founders of the daytime veg-forward Kin Cafรฉ in Fitzrovia, have acquired Cin Cin restaurant on Foley Street to open a full-service restaurant with an expanded menu. This will be the cousinsโ fifth site with Kin Restaurant and Kin Cafรฉ joining the three-strong Persian restaurants, Naroon, which…
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Oct- 2024 -30 OctoberRestaurants
Honest Burgers unveils growth plans amid โexceptionalโ H1 results
Honest Burgers has unveiled plans to quadruple the size of its business by 2030 amid โexceptionalโ H1 results with like-for-like sales growth of 11%, hitting ยฃ30m in revenues. The brandโs profitability is also ahead of forecast, with over 60% growth in EBITDA performance. Moreover, Honest Burgers has consistently been โoutperformingโ…
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