Demand
Understand whatโs driving, or dampening, customer demand across restaurants, pubs, bars, cafรฉs, 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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Nov- 2021 -26 NovemberPubs and Bars
Star Pubs & Bars invests ยฃ700k into two Derby pubs
Heineken-owned Star Pubs and Bars has announced a ยฃ700,000 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 ยฃ42m as sales recover
Mitchells and Butlers (M&B) has reported a pre-tax loss of ยฃ42m for-the 52 weeks ending 25 September 2021, compared with ยฃ123m 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 restaurantโs first plant-based entrรฉe with the restaurant chain opening in the United Kingdom on the 20th November. It also revealed Popeyesโ new vegan menu is the โanswerโ 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 Hutโs footprint into the โon-the-goโ 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 ยฃ26.3m
Revolution Bars Group has revealed its pre-tax losses have narrowed to ยฃ26.3m from ยฃ31.7m for the full-year ending 3 July 2021. Total Sales were 64.2% lower at ยฃ39.4m than ยฃ110.1m 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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15 NovemberPubs and Bars
Nightcap sees FY21 losses widen to ยฃ5.3m
Nightcap has revealed that its pre-tax losses for the full-year ending 27 June 2021 have widened to ยฃ5.3m from ยฃ616,301 the previous year. Despite the losses, revenue grew to ยฃ5.9m from ยฃ5.2m and was boosted by the acquisitions of The London Cocktail Club Limited and its subsidiaries. In addition to…
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11 NovemberRestaurants
Youngโs reports strong H1 as revenues surge
Pub group Youngโs has reported its total revenue for the 26 week period ending on 27 September was ยฃ149.6m, up 183.9%, with adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of ยฃ42.7m. The group said it benefited from an increased demand following the re-opening and its major capex programme…
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