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.

Jan- 2022 -

19 January

Pubs and Bars

Managed groups sales dip 11% in December

Britain’s managed restaurant, pub and bar sector suffered a double-digit drop in sales from pre-pandemic levels in December, following the widespread cancellations of Christmas celebrations, according to the latest Coffer CGA Business Tracker. The research found that total sales in the month were down by 11% on December 2019, following…
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17 January

Restaurants

Fridays owner ups guidance following positive December trading

Hostmore, the owner of casual dining brand Fridays, and the cocktail-led bar and restaurant brand 63rd+1st, has said it expects full-year revenue to be ahead of expectations following stronger than expected trading in December. Trading for the month of December 2021 was ahead of early-month expectations despite the fact that…
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10 January

News

Tortilla revenues spike 79% to £48.1m

Tortilla has announced group revenue increased 79% to £48.1m, from £26.8m the previous year for the financial year ending 2 January 2022. This was driven by growing customer demand across all the group’s channels of eat in, take away and delivery, and underpinned by the continued roll-out of new sites…
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4 January

Restaurants

Hospitality industry sees signs of recovery in H2, Barclaycard finds

Prior to the arrival of the latest Covid-19 variant, Brits had made up for lost time with friends and family, with pubs, bars and clubs recording positive growth in the second half of the year, according to the latest research on consumer spending from Barclaycard. Barclaycard said this was earmarked…
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Dec- 2021 -

17 December

Restaurants

Geezy Foods announces UK expansion plans

Geezy Foods, one of the world’s fastest-growing digital food, grocery and hospitality brands is expanding into the UK. After launching in Australia and New Zealand, Geezy Foods is now looking to build a network of virtual brands across London and many other cities across the globe to meet the rise…
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13 December

Restaurants

Catering towards change

Humdingers Catering began with a vision to bring unpretentious but delicious food to as many people as possible. Based on Hoxton Street, the business consists of Humdingers Catering and Humdingers Bakery and Soup Kitchen. The latter venture was launched as a social enterprise during the pandemic. Despite the negative effects…
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3 December

Features

How restaurants recouped footfall during an unsteady climate

In the words of trade association UKHospitality, ‘the resilience of pubs and bars will be crucial to the recovery of hospitality.’ However, low footfall still present in the high street is making it difficult for operators to make a comeback. According to a latest report by the CGA, 26% of…
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2 December

Pubs and Bars

Famous Liverpool FC pub brought to market for £3.7m

The Sandon Complex, a Liverpool institution famed as the birthplace of both Everton and Liverpool Football Club has been brought to market with an asking price of £3.7m. The venue has served the local community under various ownership since the 1870s. It was Originally owned by the founder of Liverpool…
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1 December

Business

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 November

Pubs 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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