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 -11 NovemberCatering Companies
Contract catering sales up 52%, CGA reveals
Contract catering sales during the period July to September 2021 were up by 52% when compared to 2020, according to the latest edition of CGA’s Contract Caterer Tracker. However, the tracker also indicated a 36% drop in third-quarter sales from the same period in 2019, when businesses were trading as…
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9 NovemberFeatures
Can catering SMEs weather the supply storm?
Using the words of Nandoโs, restaurants have had โa bit of a mareโ recently amid an increase in supply chain shortages. Earlier this year, the chain had to temporarily shut around 50 UK outlets, with its signature peri peri chicken stripped from the menu. As well as chicken being unattainable,…
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8 NovemberFeatures
Q&A with Alan Morgan, CEO of The Big Table Group
What is the history of the business?ย The Big Table Group was formed last summer to acquire and operate the Bella Italia, Cafรฉ Rouge and Las Iguanas restaurant brands. In a process handled by AlixPartners, parts of the business formerly known as Casual Dining Group were acquired from administration, preserving…
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Oct- 2021 -25 OctoberTrade Associations
Over 200 CEOs sign letter urging chancellor to permanently keep 12.5% VAT
Over 200 chief executives of the UK pubs, bars, restaurants, cafรฉs, hotels, leisure parks, nightclubs, entertainment venues, and visitor attractions have signed a letter to the chancellor urging for a permanent cut to VAT. Ahead of his Budget next Wednesday (27 October), industry leaders have called for a permanent reduced…
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19 OctoberFood and Drink
UK hospitality growth outpaces all sectors, Lloyds Bank finds
Hospitality businesses outpaced the rest of the UK economy for the first time in more than nine years during September, according to the latest Lloyds Bank UK recovery tracker. Tourism and recreation including pubs, hotels, restaurants, leisure facilities and travel agents, was the fastest growing UK sector monitored by the…
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19 OctoberBusiness
August labour and material shortages drive prices up 1.2%, warns CGA
Widespread supply problems and increased demand from the hospitality sector combined has pushed prices up by 1.2% in August, according to the latest CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index (FPI). The report highlighted the impacts of acute shortages of labour, and of HGV drivers, pickers and manufacturing and production staff in…
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18 OctoberVenues & Properties
Growing consumer confidence boosts September sales, CGA reveals
Managed restaurant, pub and bar groups saw September total sales increase 42% compared with 2020, according to the latest edition of the Coffer CGA Business Tracker. Trading was boosted by growing consumer confidence about safety and spending, good weather in many areas and ongoing staycations. The tracker, produced by CGA…
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15 OctoberPeople
British workers filling more jobs in hospitality, data finds
British workers are beginning to fill more numbers of job positions in pubs, restaurants and hotels โthan ever beforeโ as labour shortages continue, according to the latest figures from hospitality software provider Fourth.ย It said this trend has been consistent over the last six months, as the number of British…
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14 OctoberCatering Companies
Childrenโs meal brand Jess Cooks secures ยฃ100k investment funding
Jess cooks has announced a new range of frozen meals for children has successfully secured ยฃ100k of seed funding, as it looks to build on local success and expand into the foodservice sector. It revealed Jess Cooks aims to disrupt the current baby and toddler food market, with a range…
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13 OctoberRestaurants
Almost 1,000 hospitality venues have closed since July, report finds
Britainโs number of licensed premises fell by 980 between July, when the market fully reopened, and September 2021, according to the new market recovery monitor from CGA and Alix Partners. The monitor indicates that small businesses have borne the brunt of closures, with independently run pubs, restaurants, bars and other…
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