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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Oct- 2024 -28 OctoberNews
Rare Restaurants CEO steps down
Rare Restaurants, owner of Gaucho and M Restaurants, has announced that Martin Williams has stepped down from his role as CEO. Williams, who has left the company to focus on his next โpersonal chapterโ, has been CEO of the group for six years.ย He spent a total of 15 years…
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28 OctoberPubs and Bars
54% of hospitality firms to cut jobs and investment if rates relief ends
More than half of pubs and hospitality businesses would cut jobs (54%) and cancel investment (51%) if bills quadrupled when business rates relief ends in April, according to a new joint survey conducted by the British Beer and Pub Association, British Institute of Innkeeping and UKHospitality. The report also highlighted…
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18 OctoberPeople
GDK bolsters leadership team ahead of 150th UK store opening
German Doner Kebab has announced the appointment of Tommy Edmong as its new CFO and Amit Pancholi as UK franchise development director, as the QSR chain prepares to open its 150th UK store in the coming months.ย Edmond joins the group with over a decade of financial leadership experience, having…
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18 OctoberNews
Over 1,200 pubs will likely shut down this year, CAMRA says
Over 1,200 pubs will likely be shuttered this year, compared to around 1000 in 2023, and just over 800 in 2022, new data from CAMRA has revealed. Figures released today by the Campaign show the โalarmingโ rate of licensee turnover in the pub trade as the crushing weight of unfair…
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17 OctoberNews
Deliveroo GTV reaches ยฃ1.7bn in Q3
Deliveroo saw its gross transaction value (GTV) increase 6% to ยฃ1.7bn in the third quarter as the company maintains its full year guidance.ย Total orders increased 2%, while GTV per order was up 4% in constant currency and revenue increased 4% to ยฃ498m. In UKI, GTV growth reached ยฃ1bn, a…
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17 OctoberRestaurants
Whitbread to offload 51 F&B sites for ยฃ56m
Whitbread has accepted offers on 51 F&B locations for ยฃ56m, as part of the hotel operatorโs plans to exit a total of 126 branded restaurants and convert a further 112 into 3,500 rooms with an integrated F&B offering.ย According to the group, it is currently working with its advisers and…
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4 OctoberNews
Todayโs news in brief – 04/10/24
Wetherspoon has posted a profit before tax of ยฃ73.9m for the year ended 28 July, spelling a rise from ยฃ42.6m against the previous year. Alongside this, the company saw its revenues top ยฃ2bn in the period, up from ยฃ1.9bn last year. The chain now operates 800 pubs, down from 879…
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4 OctoberFood and Drink
SSP Group sees UK sales rise 12% in Q4
Operator of F&B outlets in travel locations, SSP Group, has reported that UK sales rose by 12%, with a like-for-like jump of 9%, during the fourth quarter ended 30 September.ย The groupโs UK performance was driven by high demand in the air travel sector, a lower level of disruption in…
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2 OctoberCafes and Coffee Shops
Trio of F&B brands to open at Festival Place
Boswells, Heavenly Desserts and Wagamama are set to open new locations at the shopping destination in Basingstoke.ย Opening in Bedford Square, Boswells is a family-run cafe business established in 1972, operating throughout the South, South West and Wales. The cafe will offer a menu of made to order food, including…
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Sep- 2024 -30 SeptemberNews
Todayโs news in brief – 30/09/24
Incipio Group has reported record sales of ยฃ25.9m for the year to 31 December 2023, having increased 32% against 2022. Meanwhile, the group also reported โrecordโ adjusted EBITDA on continuing operations of ยฃ2.5m โ a ยฃ1.8m improvement on the previous year. It comes as the group focused on its operational…
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