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.

Sep- 2020 -

28 September

Food and Drink

15,000 new riders to join Deliveroo, as food delivery demand rises

Deliveroo has announced plans to increase the number of its riders by 15,000 by the end of the year, in order to meet food delivery demand. The UK food delivery company has already started to work alongside 15,000 new riders during the pandemic, marking a year-on-year rise of 286%. The…
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24 September

Cafes and Coffee Shops

Upper Crust owner predicts 86% decrease in sales

Owners of pastry chain Upper Crust, have predicted an 86% decrease in sales for the year to end in September. A trading report released by the company revealed that weekly sales are currently running at 76% below last year results. The SSP owned group touted slow return to UK commuter…
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17 September

Coronavirus

UKH warns of major hospitality job losses without employment support

UKHospitality (UKH) has warned that at least 900,000 hospitality jobs are at risk unless the UK Government offers a sector-specific package of employment support that helps businesses retain valuable workers. Giving evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, chief executive Kate Nicholls praised the chancellor’s recent ‘Plan for…
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16 September

Pubs and Bars

Star Pubs & Bars sees post-lockdown confidence in L&T sector

Star Pubs and Bars has revealed it is experiencing a “post-lockdown surge” in experienced leased and tenanted applicants and a willingness to invest in pubs by licensees, indicating a “high level of confidence” in the leased and tenanted sector despite the pandemic. The leased pub business of Heineken said application…
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14 September

Coronavirus

700,000 jobs at risk as end of furlough scheme draws near

Over 700,000 employees are at risk of being made redundant in the second half of 2020, research from Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has revealed. IES estimates that some 650 thousand redundancies are expected in the second half of 2020, with 445 thousand redundancies in the three months between July…
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7 September

Coronavirus

Deliveries to provide ‘long-lasting boost’ to sector post-lockdown

The positive impact of Covid-19 on the delivery market is set to “provide a long-lasting boost” to the sector once the pandemic ends, according to Lumina Intelligence. Its latest Foodservice Delivery Market Report Update found that prior to the pandemic, delivery accounted for one meal per consumer per month on…
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5 September

Coronavirus

UK diners eat 100 million meals through EOHO

Over 100 million meals have been claimed for under the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme in August, the Treasury has revealed. Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the scheme has helped protect the livelihoods of 1.8 million people working in the hospitality sector, as well as drive the nation’s economic…
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2 September

Comment

Why the food and beverage sector now faces major insurance challenges

Mactavish, the specialist outsourced insurance buyer and claims resolution expert, is warning companies operating in the food and beverage sector that any significant operational changes they have made in response to Covid-19 could place them in breach of their existing insurance policy terms, potentially leaving them unable to access crucial…
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Aug- 2020 -

27 August

People

Majority of office workers in catering sector feel unsafe returning to work after Covid-19

Only 28% of office workers in the retail, catering and leisure sector feel safe returning to work after the pandemic, despite new health and safety measures that have been put in place. This is according to new research from insurance provider Protectivity, which asked office workers around the UK how…
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24 August

Coronavirus

Record economic growth anticipated for Q3

The UK is reportedly on track for a record economic resurgence during the third quarter of the year, following sharp declines in GDP at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Q2. According to the Financial Times (FT), City of London economists have predicted a 14.3% rise in GDP for…
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