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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Dec- 2021 -1 DecemberBusiness
Pret A Manger announces new UK franchise partners
Pret A Manger has announced that Dallas Holdings and K&Z Group will become the chain’s next franchisees in the UK. A total of eight stores will be transferred to the new franchise partners in spring 2022. Pret’s Guildford, Bournemouth, Basingstoke and Woking shops will be transferred to K&Z Holdings, and…
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Nov- 2021 -30 NovemberPubs and Bars
JD Wetherspoon secures 20-year deal with Budweiser Brewing Group
JD Wetherspoon has announced a further 20-year partnership with Budweiser Brewing Group, meaning the brewing group will become the largest beer supplier across the JD Wetherspoon estate. Wetherspoon said demand for the Budweiser Brewing Group’s premium portfolio increased during the pandemic, and that last year saw premium lager and world…
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26 NovemberPubs and Bars
Star Pubs & Bars invests £700k into two Derby pubs
Heineken-owned Star Pubs and Bars has announced a £700,000 investment to refurbish the Corner Pin at Chellaston and The Dog and Moon on Sadler Gate, both of which are set to reopen in 2022. The Corner Pin has been closed since 2018, and The Dog and Moon shut its doors…
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26 NovemberPeople
Hospitality sector sees rise in headcount and hours worked
For the first time since the start of the pandemic, all hospitality sectors saw their staff headcount and the number of hours worked rise in October against last year, according to the latest figures from software provider Fourth. Nonetheless, it said that a labour shortage was still evident in the…
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25 NovemberPubs and Bars
Mitchells and Butlers losses narrow to £42m as sales recover
Mitchells and Butlers (M&B) has reported a pre-tax loss of £42m for-the 52 weeks ending 25 September 2021, compared with £123m a year earlier, as its sales recovery starts to take hold. M&B said it had returned to profitability in recent months and its like-for-like sales were 2.7% higher than…
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19 NovemberNews
Livekindly and Popeyes partner to debut in the UK
Livekindly Collective has announced its exclusive plant-based partnership with Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen for the launch of the restaurant’s first plant-based entrée with the restaurant chain opening in the United Kingdom on the 20th November. It also revealed Popeyes’ new vegan menu is the “answer” to a growing demand for plant-based…
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18 NovemberNews
Rate of delivery and takeaways slows, CGA finds
The rate of 2021-on-2019 growth in delivery and takeaway sales has steadily slowed from 206% in July to 130% in September, according to the latest edition of the CGA and Slerp Hospitality at Home tracker. It revealed that growth in delivery and takeaway sales has eased as consumers return to…
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17 NovemberFood and Drink
Foodservice prices to surge in run-up to Christmas, CGA warns
Rising demand, product shortages and distribution issues are causing foodservice prices to surge in the run-up to Christmas, according to the new edition of the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index. The return of schools and increasing volumes from hospitality, business and industry drove a further surge in volumes in the…
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16 NovemberRestaurants
Pizza Hut agrees new EG Group partnership
EG Group and Pizza Hut have announced a new partnership to expand Pizza Hut’s footprint into the ‘on-the-go’ travel market. As a franchisee, EG Group will operate eight new Pizza Hut stores in petrol forecourt stations across the UK by the end of 2021. The expansion will reportedly bring investment…
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16 NovemberPubs and Bars
Revolution Bars Group FY21 losses narrow to £26.3m
Revolution Bars Group has revealed its pre-tax losses have narrowed to £26.3m from £31.7m for the full-year ending 3 July 2021. Total Sales were 64.2% lower at £39.4m than £110.1m in 2020 as a result of the various Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions throughout the entirety of FY21, compared to just…
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