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.

Mar- 2021 -

22 March

Restaurants

Tim Hortons to launch Sheffield restaurant

Canadian restaurant brand Tim Hortons has announced plans to launch its first Yorkshire drive-thru restaurant. Opening in Summer 2021, the Sheffield site will also feature dine-in seating for up to 118 covers, as well as delivery options for the surrounding area. Following an earlier announcement that the group intends to…
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17 March

Pubs and Bars

Star Pubs and Bars to charge tenants full rent from 21 June

Star Pubs and Bars, which is part of the Heineken group, has announced its tenants will return to paying rent in full after lockdown restrictions are eased from 21 June 2021. The group revealed it has invested a further £19m in lockdown rent concessions and has extended its 90% rent…
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15 March

Pubs and Bars

Stars Pubs and Bars invests further £19m in rent concessions

Star Pubs and Bars is investing a further £19m in lockdown rent concessions for its pubs, to ensure that its venues successfully reopen come 21 June – the predicted date for when hospitality can resume normal trading in England. As part of the support, the group will extend its 90%…
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9 March

People

Hospitality salaries up ‘significantly’ despite pandemic, report finds

Despite the economic impact of Covid-19, average salary levels across the hospitality and leisure sector grew “significantly” in 2020, according to new data released by recruitment group Reed. From analysis of over 6.5 million jobs posted to reed.co.uk over the last three years, the Reed Hospitality and Leisure Salary Guide…
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9 March

Pubs and Bars

The Saddlers to undergo £250,000 refurbishment

The Saddlers at Lympstone is to undergo a £250,000 refurbishment which will aim to be completed by reopening in May, according to Star Pubs and Bars and Webb Enterprises. The investment includes a new 40-seater restaurant extension which will aim to reduce overflow dining in the bar. Other internal improvements…
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8 March

Business

Deliveroo losses narrow to £233.7m ahead of London float

Deliveroo has revealed a narrowing of its losses to £233.7m during 2020 while also confirming its London stock market floatation. The food delivery app gave prospective investors an insight into its financial performance today (8 March, as part of the launch of its Initial Public Offering (IPO). Its trading update showed…
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5 March

Pubs and Bars

Barkby Pubs ‘poised for significant growth’ post-lockdown

The Barkby Group, operators of Barkby Pubs, has announced that like-for-like sales across its pub estate were down by 45% between 1 October and 31 December 2020, but said the group is “poised for significant growth and a return to profitability” once the sector reopens this spring. Between 1 July…
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4 March

Pubs and Bars

Revolution predicts ‘rapid rebound’ amid reopening

Revolution Bars Group is predicting a “rapid rebound” in trade and “significant” pent-up demand once the sector reopens, as it welcomes the “clarity” provided by the government’s recent roadmap announcement. The operator of 66 premium bars, trading under the Revolution and Revolucion de Cuba brands, intends to initially open 20…
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3 March

Comment

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 March

Pubs 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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