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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May- 2022 -13 MayPeople
Big Table Group appoints first F&B director
The Big Table Group, the operator of Las Iguanas, Bella Italia and Café Rouge, has appointed David Rust to the newly created role of director of Food and Beverage. Rust has over 30 years’ experience in the hospitality industry, working with brands across hotels, restaurants and leisure. He joins from…
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11 MayRestaurants
Slim Chickens to make Liverpool debut
Slim Chickens, a “rapidly growing” American dining brand operated by Boparan Restaurant Group (BRG), is set to make its debut in Liverpool at the Liverpool ONE shopping complex. The 5,000 sq ft flagship restaurant is set to open later this year and will provide over 175 covers, as well as…
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9 MayRestaurants
German Doner Kebab to open landmark 100th UK site
Gourmet kebab restaurant, German Doner Kebab (GDK) has revealed it will reach the major milestone of opening its 100th UK restaurant this week. The landmark 100th site will open for customers on Tuesday 10 May, in the heart of Covent Garden on St. Martins Lane, London, in the heart of…
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9 MayFood and Drink
Drinks sales remain above pre-Covid levels for second week
On premise drinks sales held just above pre-Covid levels for the second week in a row in the seven days leading to last Saturday, 30 April, due to a “bright start” to the bank holiday weekend. According to CGA’s Drinks Recovery Tracker, “reasonable” weather at the start of the long…
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6 MayFood and Drink
The Athenian partners with Growth Kitchen amid expansion plans
Greek street food player, The Athenian, has announced it has entered into a multi-site agreement with Growth Kitchen, the food-tech startup operating smart satellite kitchen networks, to bolster its expansion in London. Using its expansion tool, which includes spend data, average transaction size and demographic and competitive data, Growth Kitchen…
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6 MayRestaurants
Yum Brands sales rise 8% in Q1
Yum Brands, the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, has announced that sales rose by 8% in Q1 despite a “difficult” trading environment over the period. Worldwide system sales in the quarter ended 31 March grew by 9% at KFC, 8% at Taco Bell and 3% at Pizza Hut. Reported…
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3 MayCatering Companies
Heineken to invest £42m into Star Pubs and Bars estate
Heineken has announced it will invest £42m into the upgrade of its Star Pubs and Bars estate. The group said 660 venues will benefit from the investment, creating over 700 jobs in the process. The investment follows its £62m expenditure on pandemic rent reductions and plays a “key part” in…
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Apr- 2022 -20 AprilRestaurants
UK licensed premises contract as CGA warns of future closures
Britain’s number of licensed premises contracted 0.9% in the first quarter of 2022, the latest market recovery monitor from CGA and AlixPartners reveals. It indicates that Britain had just under 106,000 licensed premises at the end of March 2022. CGA said that “while this small decrease does represent a slowdown…
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14 AprilRestaurants
Restaurant owners facing mental health crisis, research finds
Over a third of restaurant owners across the country reported that their mental health was worse at the end of 2021 than it was during the peak of the pandemic in 2020, new research from Flipdish has found. A study from 200 UK hospitality decision-makers revealed that 37% of restaurant…
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13 AprilFood and Drink
Swingers to extend presence in the US and UK
Swingers has announced it is extending its crazy golf socialising experience in the US with the opening of its newest venue, Swingers NoMad, on Friday 17 June, as well as the extension of its original London site in London, West End. The New York City opening follows the success of…
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