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.

Mar- 2023 -

13 March

Features

A growing pride: The takeover and expansion of Leon

Tell me a little bit about the history of Leon? Leon was founded in 2004 with the mission to make it easy for everybody to eat and live well. We created Naturally Fast Food and have always championed seasonal, Mediterranean-inspired and free-from food, and we were the first to display…
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13 March

Awards & Events

Thornbury Castle receives Three AA Rosette status

Thornbury Castle Hotel and Restaurant, part of the Relais and Chateaux collection, has been awarded a Three AA Rosette. It is the only Tudor castle in England to house a hotel. The rosettes celebrate successful cooking and Three Rosette status is given to “outstanding restaurants” that achieve standards that demand…
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2 March

Features

Revenge of the dish: Are we eating out more after Covid?

Revenge dining. You may have not heard of the term but you’re probably aware of the idea. It’s the theory that more people ate out at restaurants in 2022 following the end of lockdown restrictions as a result of not being able to for so long. Opentable research published in…
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Feb- 2023 -

23 February

Business

Third of hospitality firms at risk of going under, says UKH

UKHospitality has revealed that 32% of hospitality firms are at risk of failure within the next year, despite hospitality sales in 2022 surpassing pre-Covid levels. The hospitality association said this is because sales remain “significantly behind 2019” in real terms due to inflation. The UKHospitality Quarterly Tracker, in association with…
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23 February

Food and Drink

Foodservice price inflation sees first fall since September 2021

Foodservice price inflation dropped to 22% in January, a decrease of 0.9% from September, according to data from CGA strategy. While only a small decrease in inflation it represents the first fall in foodservice price inflation since September 2021. However, all categories remain in double-digit inflation, with oils and fats…
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16 February

Food and Drink

SSP Group UK trading hit by rail strikes in Q1

SSP Group has seen its UK sales performance weakened by rail strikes in the first quarter of FY23, as revenues hit only 83% of 2019 levels at £215m. Its overall Q1 performance in the region reflected both the seasonally higher weighting of rail and the impact of more industrial action…
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14 February

Restaurants

Popeyes UK to open in 7 new locations

Popeyes UK has confirmed that it is set to open seven new sites as it continues its rapid expansion in the region. The new openings will include two additional London sites as well as its first drive-thru. The new sites will be located in: Cambridge; Reading; Cardiff; Plymouth; Richmond; Rotherham…
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Jan- 2023 -

30 January

Features

Dining out on success: The rebound of seated dining numbers

At the start of the year Opentable released its study into the nation’s dining habits for 2022. In it the company found that seated dining numbers had risen dramatically on the back of the end of lockdown restrictions. Robin Chiang discusses why this happened and how Opentable went about collecting…
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25 January

Beverages

Inn Collection Group increases non-alcoholic offering

Pubs with rooms owner Inn Collection Group (ICG) has announced that it is expanding its non-alcoholic offering after striking a deal with UK brand Lucky Saint. The Newcastle-based brewer will provide non-alcoholic beer to all of ICG’s properties in the north of England and North Wales. ICG stated that an…
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24 January

Pubs and Bars

Fuller’s issues profit warning as rail strikes wipe £4m from sales

Fuller’s has warned its full-year earnings may be lower than expected after its profitability was dented by rail strikes in recent months. Since the start of October, the group estimates that strike action wiped £4m from its sales, adding that the consequent impact on profitability means earnings may be below…
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