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.

Jun- 2021 -

1 June

Pubs 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 May

Pubs 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 May

Pubs 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 May

Coronavirus

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 May

Coronavirus

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 May

Pubs 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 May

Pubs 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 May

Restaurants

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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4 May

Coronavirus

High Court rules against Sasha Lord in hospitality reopening case

The High Court has rejected Sacha Lord and Hugh Osmond’s bid to challenge the Government’s indoor hospitality reopening stall. The case had been set in motion by Lord, Manchester’s night-time economy advisor, and Osmond, founder of Punch Taverns, who argued that a lack of scientific evidence had been provided to…
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4 May

Coronavirus

UKH calls for ‘decisive’ government action on rent debt

UKHospitality has written to the government urging it to adopt its proposals to help tackle the £2.5bn rent debt crisis that “threatens to wreck the hospitality sector’s recovery and risks further widespread job losses”. For more than a year, the trade association has been highlighting the threat that rent debt…
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