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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Mar- 2021 -3 MarchComment
Is enough being done to upskill the UK’s hospitality sector?
On 22 February Boris Johnson announced the government’s roadmap to cautiously ease lockdown restrictions in England. The plan, which he described as a “one-way road to freedom”, came almost exactly 11 months after the UK became submerged in a national lockdown that disrupted life as we know it. For business…
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1 MarchPubs and Bars
30 licensed premises closed a day in 2020
Nearly 12,000 licensed premises have closed in Britain since December 2019, an average of around 30 a day and the highest rate on record, according to research from the new edition CGA and AlixPartners. While 4,170 new sites have been recorded since December 2019, the loss of 11,894 venues means…
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Feb- 2021 -25 FebruaryFeatures
Local food suppliers and their consumer-driven industry
Recent months have seen the UK’s supply chains across all sectors hit from two sides at once. The UK’s food industry is one of those sectors where the combined challenge of Brexit and Covid-19 is most prevalent. However, by turning to local produce, both businesses and individuals could reap the…
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23 FebruaryVenues & Properties
German Doner Kebab to expand across UK
German Doner Kebab is reportedly eyeing a roll-out of sites across the UK, in a move that will see it almost double its presence with the addition of 47 new sites. According to Sky News, the expansion, which follows a period of heightened takeaway sales during the pandemic, will reportedly…
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15 FebruaryCoronavirus
Over 160 hospitality CEOs urge chancellor to back sector in 2021
Over 160 CEOs from the UK’s leading hospitality businesses, employing hundreds of thousands of people, have written to the chancellor ahead of next month’s Budget. The letter, coordinated by trade body UKHospitality, calls for decisive support to help the sector survive, rebuild and drive the economic recovery and highlights two…
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12 FebruaryComment
Helping employers create a recipe for resilience
According to statistics from the HSE, stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 55% of all working days lost due to work-related ill health in 2019/20; some 17.9 million lost working days. Worryingly this report was published in November 2020 featuring pre-pandemic data. We’re all now navigating a whole new set…
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11 FebruaryRestaurants
Sri Lankan restaurant The Coconut Tree to open its seventh site
Sri Lankan street food restaurant group The Coconut Tree has announced plans to open a seventh site in Bath. The seventh site – which will join branches in Cardiff, Bristol, Oxford, Cheltenham and Bournemouth – is on track to open at 36 Broad Street in late Spring. The Coconut Tree…
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10 FebruaryRestaurants
Big Table Group agrees deal with Centre Parcs restaurants
continued demand for our Bella Italia, Café Rouge and Las Iguanas brands in high volume, high quality locations. “Alongside this, the deal is testament to the commitment each of our restaurants have to delivering fantastic dining experiences to Center Parcs’ guests and the significant investment will ensure that we can…
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10 FebruaryPubs and Bars
Beer and pub leaders push for reopening date as sales plummet 56%
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) and business leaders of the beer and pub industry are pushing the government to confirm a clear timeline and date for the reopening of the sector. It comes as it was revealed that trading restrictions and lockdowns caused sales of beer to plummet…
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9 FebruaryBreweries and Distilleries
Carlsberg CEO predicts ‘Roaring Twenties’ sector recovery
Carlsberg expects to experience a spike in demand similar to the roaring twenties as restrictions ease in what the group’s CEO believes will be a “normal summer”. Cees ‘t Hart, CEO at the group, told the Financial Times that despite the “high uncertainty” surrounding 2021, firms that have survived the…
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