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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Jun- 2021 -8 JuneGovernment
Gov must ‘find a solution’ to £2bn rent debt, says UKH chief
Kate Nicholls, head of UKHospitality, has called on the government to work alongside the sector, landlords and shareholders to find a solution to the £2bn plus in rent debt that “hangs around the neck” of the industry. Giving evidence to the House of Commons Treasury Committee hearing on Monday (7…
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3 JunePubs and Bars
Hospitality facing widespread staff shortages, survey finds
Nine in 10 hospitality business leaders expect to face staff shortages this year as restrictions continue to ease, according to the latest Business Confidence Survey from CGA and Fourth. Half (51%) of respondents anticipate shortages in all roles, while 39% are only concerned about back of house roles. According to…
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1 JunePubs and Bars
Nightlife bookings lead 560% ticket sales surge
Ticket sales have spiked 560% in England for the 30 days following 21 June when compared to the same period in 2019. According to digital events and ticketing platform FIXR, the rise in demand, especially within the night-time economy, has outstripped a 90% increase in event listings. Scotland, Northern Ireland,…
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May- 2021 -27 MayPubs and Bars
Oakman Group swings to £13.9m loss in FY20
The Oakman Group announced that it operated over a total loss of £13.9m for the year ended 30 June 2020 in a preliminary statement of the group’s annual accounts. The pub group also saw an EBITDA loss for the period of £2.6m as its “performance in the year was severely…
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19 MayPubs and Bars
Marston’s posts £105m H1 pre-tax loss
Pub operator Marston’s saw its H1 FY21 losses before tax widen to £105.5m, up from pre-tax losses of £31.1m the previous year. Moreover, the group’s revenues for the six months ended 3 April 2021 plummeted 84% to £55.1m, a sharp decline from H1 FY20’s £343.3m revenues. Marston’s was, however, able…
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14 MayCoronavirus
April pub and restaurant sales down 60% against 2019
Managed pub and restaurant groups recorded a 60%% drop in total sales in April compared to the same month in 2019, according to the latest edition of the Coffer CGA Business Tracker. Restaurants performed marginally better than pubs, with declines of 51% and 67% respectively, due to strong delivery and…
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13 MayCoronavirus
Hospitality SMEs anticipate rising demand and revenues, says Barclaycard
With lockdown restrictions continuing to ease across the UK, SMEs predict a 9.8% rise in revenue this quarter, rising to 21% in the hospitality sector, according to new research from Barclaycard Payments. This marks the highest anticipated increase since the SME Barometer was launched in February 2020. The research, which…
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12 MayPubs and Bars
Nightcap raises £10m to fuel further growth
Nightcap, a hospitality group formed by investors Sarah Willingham and Michael Toxvaerd to back the UK premium bar sector, announced it has raised £10m to further its investment strategy and roll-out its latest acquisition, Adventure Bar Group (ABG). The £10m figure raised is “significantly higher” than originally planned owing to…
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11 MayPubs and Bars
The City Pub Group swings to £5.1m FY20 loss
The City Pub Group swung to an adjusted before tax loss of £5.1m for FY20, down from a £5.3m profit in FY19. The group attributed its 57% year-on-year decline in revenues to £25.8m for the 12 months ended 27 December 2020 to “lengthy closure periods”. However, since the return to…
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10 MayRestaurants
Trio of new F&B lettings secured at St Christopher’s Place
BMO Commercial Property Trust, managed by pan-European property investment and asset management specialist BMO Real Estate Partners, has completed a trio of new lettings at its St Christopher’s Place central London estate. San Carlo Restaurant Group has now agreed to take 6,000 sq ft of space on a 15 year…
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