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- 2020 -

29 June

Pubs and Bars

Revolution outlines ‘cautious’ reopening

Ahead of the hospitality sector’s reopening later this week, Revolution Bars has confirmed its intention to reopen six of its bars on 6 July, and keep them open for a “minimum” period of two weeks. The “cautious” recommencement of trading forms part of the group’s plan to “fully test” customer…
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26 June

People

Crussh appoints Simon Foster as new CEO

Crussh has appointed Simon Foster as the company’s new CEO to lead the re-start of the brand and navigate its next stage of development. According to the brand, Foster has made a career of building successful British brands, including Thorntons, Hovis, and most recently Yorica. As CEO of Crussh, Foster…
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24 June

News

145 million additional pints to be sold with one-metre rule

Following the government’s announcement that social distancing is to be reduced to one-metre, CGA has calculated the precise sales boost this could give hospitality. According to the data group, the move would allow for 145 million additional pints of beer to be sold through the hospitality sector, compared with what…
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23 June

Pubs and Bars

Star Pubs and Bars reveals £250k investment package

Star Pubs and Bars has announced it is investing in a “comprehensive” reopening support package for its 2,500 pubs. The package includes a £250,000 investment into point-of-sale safety materials, with a free pack available to every licensee. The latest investment adds to Star Pubs and Bars’ £21m investment in rent…
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17 June

Comment

From the garage to the boardroom

Over the course of the last three months, while stuck in my garage working away in some of the coldest conditions known to man (or a least this man), I have looked for positives where there only seem to be negatives. In doing so, I remembered that, in my career…
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9 June

Catering Companies

Sodexo reaffirms its sustainability commitments

Sodexo has announced it has reaffirmed its five key sustainability commitments to work with employees, clients and suppliers for a “more resilient and green economic recovery”. Sodexo said it is the first food services company with a carbon emission reduction objective in line with the Paris Agreement to limit global…
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8 June

Restaurants

Revolution bars secures £15m from share placing

Revolution Bars Group has revealed it has raised £15m from a share placing. Revolution Bars said that subject to resolutions being passed at its general meeting to be held on or around 26 June 2020, in aggregate, 75,017,495 New Ordinary Shares are to be issued pursuant to the Firm Placing…
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5 June

Comment

Real-time contact with remote teams

Catering is one of the numerous FM services that has proven itself to be essential in recent weeks. Though a lot of workplaces have closed, schools and care homes are just two examples of places that have continued to require catering services. As we prepare for schools to welcome back…
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May- 2020 -

28 May

Coronavirus

Service sector sentiment plunges at ‘record pace’, CBI finds

Business optimism plunged across the service sector in the three months to May, according to the latest quarterly CBI Service Sector Survey. Following an uptick in sentiment over the previous quarter, optimism among business and professional services fell at the fastest pace since the financial crisis, while consumer services saw…
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25 May

Comment

The coronavirus diaries: Slerp

What a whirlwind the last two months has been. We have seen any sense of a normal approach to life go out the window. As an F&B business owner, we have had to think fast and be creative in order to give ourselves a chance for survival. With so many…
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