Demand
Understand what’s driving, or dampening, customer demand across restaurants, pubs, bars, cafés, 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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Aug- 2023 -24 AugustNews
UK restaurants see 4% growth in July takeaway sales
Britain’s top managed restaurant groups achieved year-on-year growth in delivery and takeaway sales of 4% in July, CGA by NIQ’s latest hospitality at home tracker shows. It is a second successive month of growth, following an extended post-COVID fall in sales that saw the tracker record 18 negative months in…
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23 AugustCatering Companies
Compass Group gifts £500k to fund apprenticeships in West Midlands
Compass Group has gifted £500,000 to West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to boost hospitality and professional services courses in the West Midlands region through the Apprenticeship Transfer Levy Fund. The new funded apprenticeships to WMCA will help budding chefs, restaurant front of house staff or other supporting roles land jobs…
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22 AugustCatering Companies
Contract caterers’ Q2 sales rise 18.5% YOY
Contract caterers’ sales in the second quarter of 2023 were up 18.5% compared with the same period in 2022, according to data from CGA Strategy. Caterers’ sales in the private sector were also up 20.4% year-on-year reflecting the sector’s recovery from the pandemic and consumers’ return to workplaces and venues…
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21 AugustPubs and Bars
Gen Zs prefer entertainment games over pub visits, Mintel finds
New research from Mintel has found that people in Generation Z prefer competitive social entertainment games like axe throwing or table football over pub visits. The latest research shows that almost two thirds (64%) of Gen Zs have played a social entertainment game in the last month, compared with three…
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21 AugustFood and Drink
August bank holiday to generate £5.8bn for UK hospitality
The weekend of 26-28 August is expected to generate an additional £5.8bn for the hospitality industry through consumer spending in restaurants, pubs and bars across the UK, according to new research from independent finance broker Charles and Dean.Charles and Dean’s research, conducted in collaboration with Censuswide, has predicted that a…
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14 AugustCafes and Coffee Shops
Caffè Nero trading at 112% of pre-pandemic levels
Caffè Nero has announced that trading for the three months ended 31 May were “robust” as like-for-like sales grew, taking sales to 112% of 2019 pre-pandemic levels. This comes as, in the UK, over 32% of all of the company’s transactions take place via its mobile app, with more than…
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10 AugustAnalysis
Greggs’ recipe for success
By May 2023, Greggs’ sales had shot up by nearly a fifth compared with the same time in 2022, as its offering of sausage rolls and pasties remained “compelling” to customers during the cost-of-living crisis. In the spring of this year, the country-wide chain of bakeries also revealed that hot…
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3 AugustNews
BoE raises interest rates to 5.25%
The Bank of England (BoE) has raised interest rates for the 14th consecutive time to 5.25% in a bid to combat inflation. The bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target. At its meeting ending on 2 August 2023, the MPC voted by a…
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Jul- 2023 -20 JulyCatering Companies
ESS secures Bedfordshire Police catering contract
The Energy, Government and Infrastructure sector of ESS, part of Compass Group UK and Ireland, has secured the Bedfordshire Police as its latest catering contract. ESS said that key to the award was the company’s “commitment to welfare through a variety of food offerings and environments that enable officers and…
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19 JulyFeatures
Data and sustainability: Take advantage of growing demand for sustainable eating
“Restaurant owners cannot afford not to address sustainability. It just makes sense. If you’re not looking at your energy use, you’re not tracking your food waste and if you don’t have data on your company, you can’t really be successful, because you don’t know what’s happening at the customer level,”…
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