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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May- 2023 -2 MayFood and Drink
Popeyes to launch first UK drive-thru in Rotherham
Popeyes has announced that it will launch its first UK drive-thru in Rotherham on 15 May. The drive-thru will be part of a 104-seat restaurant which will include seating indoors and outside. The restaurant will also have a dual-ordering lane to reduce expected vehicle queues, and a car park. Tom…
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2 MayNews
Heinkenen to invest ยฃ40m in Star Pubs upgrades
Heineken has recently announced it will invest ยฃ40m in upgrading almost a quarter of the pubs in its Star Pubs & Barsโ estate in 2023.ย A total of 570 pubs will benefit from the improvements, with 100 of these scheduled for major revamps averaging ยฃ200,000 each, creating around 600 new…
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Apr- 2023 -28 AprilBusiness
Fresh rail strikes to heap โfurther painโ on hospitality, says UKH
Trade body UK Hospitality has called for all parties involved to โredoubleโ their efforts to reach a resolution ahead of planned strike action by train drivers. Train drivers from the ASLEF union are set to strike on three dates across May and June dashing hopes of a resolution to the…
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27 AprilNews
McDonaldโs global sales increase by 13% in Q1
Fast food giant McDonaldโs reported that sales increased nearly 13% for the quarter ended in March 2023, both globally and across each segment. Digital Systemwide sales in the top six markets, including the UK, were nearly $7.5bn (ยฃ6bn) for the quarter, representing almost 40% of the Systemwide sales.ย Systemwide sales…
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25 AprilBusiness
Whitbreadโs profits hit ยฃ413m amid strong Premier Inn performance
Premier Inn owner Whitbread Plc has reported that its annual adjusted pre-tax profit increased to ยฃ413m, for the 12 months to March 2, 2023 against a loss of ยฃ16m the previous year. The report revealed that the result topped the pre-pandemic annual profit level of ยฃ358m achieved in 2019-20. Revenue…
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17 AprilFood and Drink
Foodservice price inflation falls slightly but remains over 20%
Foodservice price inflation fell slightly to 20.6% year-on-year in February 2023, according to data from CGA strategy. The figure is below the record high of 22.9% in December 2022 showing clear signs that food inflation is beginning to ease. The full basket of food measured by the Index increased by…
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4 AprilNews
Burger & Sauce to open new sites in the Midlands, Liverpool and Sheffield
Restaurant chain Burger and Sauce has recently signed five new franchisees to open restaurants in the Midlands, Liverpool and Sheffield before the end of the year. Originally set up during the pandemic, the chain quickly became popular with its first restaurant turning over ยฃ1.5m in the first year.ย The brand…
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3 AprilFeatures
All About the Cooks vs delivery apps
Can you tell me about the history of All About the Cooks and how did you come up with the concept? My background is in marketing and advertising, and after having children, I worked as a consultant. Eating real meals prepared by real people rather than factory-produced goods has always…
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3 AprilNews
Creams to open two new locations under new partnership
One of UKโs leading dessert destinations, Creams Cafe, is set to further extend its reach with two openings agreed under a new partnership with Park Garage Group.ย The sites will open in Wigan and Blackburn in April and come in response to seeing a rapidly increasing demand for the brand…
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Mar- 2023 -21 MarchPubs and Bars
Pubs, restaurants and bars sales rise 3.9% in Feb
February sales at restaurant, pub and bar groups were 3.9% ahead of last year on a like-for-like basis, according to the latest Coffer CGA Business Tracker. The tracker has now recorded year-on-year growth for five consecutive months. However, the figure is substantially down from 10.1% in January and is well…
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