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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Jul- 2022 -22 JulyRestaurants
Las Iguanas adds two more sites to growing portfolio
Las Iguanas has announced it has added two more sites to its growing portfolio in Canterbury and Peterborough. The new 284-cover restaurant and bar on Longmarket in Canterbury will be spread over 7,000sq ft. It is set to open to the public in September. The 160-cover restaurant, bar and terrace…
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22 JulyVenues & Properties
RedCat Pub Company acquires two new sites
RedCat Pub Company, an investment vehicle founded to invest in the UK pub sector, has announced its acquisition of The Meynell Ingram Arms and The Cock Inn Mugginton from Berkeley Inns Limited. The Meynell Ingram Arms Hotel was re-opened by Berkeley Inns in 2019. This historic Staffordshire pub was closed…
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18 JulyRestaurants
Tortilla revenue soars 60% in H1
Tortilla has welcomed strong top-line growth during the first half of FY22, with group revenue soaring 60% to £26.9m, or an increase of 55% excluding the impact of the Chilango acquisition. The group said this performance was underpinned by growing customer demand for Tortilla’s food as well as the group’s…
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18 JulyBeverages
Fever-Tree profits ‘worsened’ by cost of headwinds
Fever-Tree has revealed that it anticipates gross margins of around 37% and an EBITDA margin of around 14% for the first half due to the reported impact of logistics and cost of headwinds having “worsened” in recent months. The business expects this to continue to impact the business during the…
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15 JulyFood and Drink
Foodservice inflation hits double digits for fourth month in a row
Inflation in the foodservice sector topped 10% for the fourth successive month in May, according to the new edition of the CGA by NielsenIQ and Prestige Foodservice Price Index. All 10 of the index’s food and drink categories recorded both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter inflation in the month. The Oils and…
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1 JulyRestaurants
Big Table Group to open two new Las Iguanas sites
The Big Table Group, the operator of Las Iguanas, Bella Italia and Café Rouge, has announced the launch of two new Las Iguanas restaurants at Center Parcs, taking its total number of restaurants at Center Parcs’ five UK holiday villages to 14. It will open in Center Parcs Elveden Forest…
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Jun- 2022 -29 JunePubs and Bars
Shepherd Neame sales rise 13%
Shepherd Neame has revealed its retail sales grew 13% year-on-year for the six weeks ending 25 June 2022, compared with the same period last year when indoor trading was allowed again on 17 May 2021. Shepherd Neame is Britain’s oldest brewer and owner and operator of 299 pubs in Kent…
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28 JuneRestaurants
Slim Chickens to open four new UK sites simultaneously
Boparan Restaurant Group (BRG) will open four new Slim Chickens restaurants simultaneously on 4 July 2022 in Leicester, Liverpool, Milton Keynes and London’s Bishopsgate, continuing Slim Chickens’ roll out across the UK. The new restaurants will each occupy 2500+ square feet locations, bringing the US fast casual brand’s UK portfolio…
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24 JuneRestaurants
Canteen Collective launches £400,000 investment round to aid expansion
Canteen Collective, a hospitality group with a focus on sustainability, has launched a £400,000 investment round to “help drive forward its ambitious growth plans”. The London-headquartered business, which is on target to turnover £2.5m this year, has said it is set to more than double its revenues by 2025 as…
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17 JunePubs and Bars
Managed group sales remain flat in May as cost crisis deepens
Sales remained flat for Britain’s managed restaurant, pub and bar groups in May as like-for-like sales were just 0.1% ahead of the pre-Covid levels of 2019, the latest Coffer CGA Business Tracker revealed. This follows like-for-like growth of between 2% and 4% from February to April. However, sales are “significantly”…
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