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.

  • Feb- 2021 -
    3 February
    BusinessMaster of Malt raises £36.5k for Hospitality Action through Macallan auction

    Master of Malt raises £36.5k for Hospitality Action through Macallan auction

    Online alcohol retailer Master of Malt has raised £36.5k for Hospitality Action through an auction of Macallan whiskey.  The ecommerce platform which has a history of running lotteries and charity auctions for highly sought-after allocations auctioned off the Macallan Red Collection.   Hospitality Action is a UK charity which offers…

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  • Jan- 2021 -
    28 January
    Pubs and BarsOakman Inns confident of £4.5m funding target

    Oakman Inns confident of £4.5m funding target

    Oakman Inns chief executive officer, Steven Kenee has said he is “very confident” that the pub group will reach its £4.5m funding target – after it received applications for over £3.6m of shares.  Before Christmas the company launched an equity fund raiser aimed at private individuals to support its growth…

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  • 26 January
    CoronavirusDeliveroo reveals consumers takeaway spending habits

    Deliveroo reveals consumers takeaway spending habits

    65% of customers are spending more on takeaways as “something to look forward to” during lockdown, research by Deliveroo reveals.  The figures come as part of a report the delivery app has published to help “restaurants understand how to adapt their business to meet the growing demand for food delivery”.  …

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  • 19 January
    PeopleDeliveroo onboards Next CEO as non-executive director

    Deliveroo onboards Next CEO as non-executive director

    Deliveroo has appointed the CEO of Next, Simon Wolfson, to its board as a non-executive director.  The online delivery service which has forecasted an increase in growth in 2021, revealed that Wolfson started his role this week – working alongside Claudia Arney the company’s first chair.  The onboarding of the…

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  • 18 January
    FeaturesThe idea behind: Plant Hustlers

    The idea behind: Plant Hustlers

    They say when entering the world of business the only thing to expect is the unexpected. Aaron Bryans, the owner of Plant Hustlers, a vegan restaurant in Bournemouth knows this all too well. With just a year of trading under his belt before the pandemic hit the North London native…

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  • 15 January
    CoronavirusUK GDP shrinks by 2.6%

    UK GDP shrinks by 2.6%

    GDP declined by 2.6% in November 2020 as government restrictions reduced economic activity, the latest ONS figures reveal. Figures released by the statistics office show that November GDP was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic levels. The decline follows a period of economic growth for the UK, with last October’s report revealing that the country had grown a…

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  • 12 January
    BusinessDeliveroo to expand to 100 new towns in the UK

    Deliveroo to expand to 100 new towns in the UK

    Deliveroo has revealed plans to expand into 100 new towns and cities across the UK, following a year of growth in 2020.  The food delivery service which has seen an increase in demand since the pandemic, has said it will now launch for the first time in Yeovil, Bangor Northern…

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  • 11 January
    FeaturesQ&A with Brad Nobbs

    Q&A with Brad Nobbs

    How has the business adapted to Covid-19? We actually started off mainly focused on nightlife and late night events. We only really started diversifying into the hospitality industry because of the pandemic. We originally provided a range of different services to clubs, bars and late night events that were essentially…

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  • 6 January
    Food and DrinkGreggs predicts first annual loss in 37 years

    Greggs predicts first annual loss in 37 years

    Greggs has forecast a £15m full-year financial loss due to Covid-19 restrictions closing its stores and reducing revenues. The bakery chain’s annual sales dropped by more than £300m year-on-year in 2020, resulting in the company’s first annual loss since it listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984. The company’s…

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  • 4 January
    CoronavirusPandemic fuels 30,000 restaurant job losses

    Pandemic fuels 30,000 restaurant job losses

    Almost 30,000 job losses were recorded by the UK’s restaurant and casual dining firms in 2020, according to data compiled by the Centre for Retail Research (CRR). The research also found that redundancies in the industry spiked 163% as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and related restrictions. The job…

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