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.

Jan- 2021 -

26 January

Coronavirus

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

People

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

Features

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

Coronavirus

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

Business

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

Features

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 Drink

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

Coronavirus

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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Dec- 2020 -

18 December

Food and Drink

UK hospitality sector loses £53bn in sales this year

The UK’s hospitality sector has lost sales of more than £53bn in 2020, with more losses expected due to the recent tier restrictions imposed on trading. The new Covid-19 vaccine could provide grounds for cautious optimism in 2021, according to the new CGA report. The eighth edition of the ‘Survival…
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1 December

Coronavirus

Hospitality supply chains under increased pressure

Pandemic-related disruption has caused supply difficulties for more than nine in ten hospitality operators since they reopened in July, according to a new survey by CGA and Prestige Purchasing. They found that only 8% of operators had “escaped supply challenges” since the end of the first national lockdown, while only…
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