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.

Nov- 2022 -

14 November

Catering Companies

Contract catering Q3 sales up 41% but remain below 2019 levels

Sales in the contract catering sector have increased 41% between July and September this year, however still remain below pre-Covid levels, according to the latest contract catering tracker from CGA. Sales in this years’ third quarter were down 9% when compared with the same three month period in 2019 and…
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11 November

Pubs and Bars

Hospitality sales rise by 4% in British cities

Pubs, bars, and restaurants have reported positive sales in Britain’s major cities, despite high inflation making real-terms growth “very difficult”, according to CGA. Its latest ‘Top Cities’ report found that combined sales in Britain’s 10 most populous cities in the four weeks to 22 October 2022 were 4% higher than…
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3 November

Restaurants

Yum Brands digital sales reach £5.3bn in Q3

Yum Brands, the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, revealed its digital sales reached approximately $6bn (£5.3bn), with digital mix exceeding 40%, during the third quarter ended 30 September 2022. The parent company also revealed that its Q3 GAAP operating profit grew by 4%, while its core…
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1 November

Features

Operations behind Lusin, Mayfair’s first Armenian restaurant

Can you tell me about your career and how you came to be director of operations at Lusin Mayfair? I started hospitality management back in Lebanon, my home country, and I continued my master’s degree in the same field. At the same time I was working in restaurants, starting from…
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Oct- 2022 -

25 October

Food and Drink

Various Eateries sales ahead of market expectations for FY22

The operator of all-day club and restaurant sites in the UK, Various Eateries, has reportedly delivered a “solid” trading performance for FY22, with sales for the year expected to be ahead of market expectations at over £40m. It is reported that for the six months between 4 April and 2…
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24 October

Restaurants

Edo Izakaya to launch with debut site this December

A debut site has been secured for Edo Izakaya, a Japanese sake concept founded by Sonny Huang, the owner of Robata, the popular West End sushi restaurant. Located at 154 Old Street, the new 1,894 sq ft restaurant is set to launch in December. Named after the informal bars popular…
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18 October

Cafes and Coffee Shops

YoooGroup to launch new business park cafe concept

YoooGroup has announced the launch of Bla bla, a new café concept for business parks, with three sites in the pipeline in Weybridge, Woking and Bracknell, and an ambition to open five sites by the end of 2023. Bla bla will aim to provide business park users and employees with…
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14 October

Restaurants

The Alverton appoints new head chef

The Alverton, a converted convent on the outskirts of Truro in Cornwall, has announced the appointment of Ollie Wyatt as the restaurant’s new head chef. Prior to his appointment, Wyatt was formerly the sous chef at Michael Caines’ restaurant, The Cove. He has over 10 years of experience, with his…
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11 October

Pubs and Bars

Drink demand keeps Marston’s sales afloat in FY22

Marston’s has announced that total retail sales for the year to 1 October were up by 2% against FY19, predominantly driven by drink sales which continued to outperform food sales in the period. Like-for-like sales were down 1% against FY19 however, reflecting the impact of trading restrictions last December and…
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3 October

Restaurants

Tortilla warns of £2.3m hit in FY22 amid inflationary pressures

Tortilla has warned that it faces future challenges from rising protein and energy prices, expecting to take a £2.3m hit in its full-year results amid increased inflationary pressures on the industry. For now, its revenue rose by 30% to £26.9m in the first half of FY22, up from £20.8m the…
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