Demand
Understand whatโs driving, or dampening, customer demand across restaurants, pubs, bars, cafรฉs, 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.
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May- 2020 -21 MayCafes and Coffee Shops
Caffรจ Nero partners with Uber Eats to launch delivery service
Coffee chain Caffรจ Nero has announced its partnership with Uber Eats to offer a delivery service for the first time amid the Covid-19 lockdown. The exclusive partnership with Uber Eats will enable the coffee chain to deliver to customers from over 40 stored by the end of May. Through the…
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21 MayCoronavirus
Gumtree Jobs partners with Food and Drink Federation
Gumtree Jobs has announced the launch of a new partnership with the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), in order to connect displaced hospitality jobseekers with local employers across the UK.ย The job hunting platform, that specialises in non-office based roles earning under ยฃ25,000, will help members of the federation secure…
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13 MayCatering Companies
UK economy shrinks by 2% as pandemic takes its toll
The UKโs economy shrank by 2% in the three months to 31 March 2020, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which also found that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 5.8% during March, the largest fall…
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6 MayCoronavirus
Debt moratorium top demand for hospitality, says CGA
Confidence is at rock bottom among the bosses of Britainโs pubs, bars and restaurants, with securing a moratorium on debt payments now their main business objective, new research from CGA shows. According to the latest CGA Business Confidence Survey confirms, with cashflow concerns โtopping their agendasโ, rent has become the…
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4 MayComment
What should restaurants learn from the Great COVID Lockdown?
Celebrity chefs like Mark Hix and Gordon Ramsey have had to close some or all of their restaurants due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Other celeb chefs like David Chang say they are unsure if they can reopen after this is all over and predict a bleak future for the sector.…
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1 MayCoronavirus
Chestnut to donate further 10,000 free meals to NHS key workers
Pub group Chestnut has revealed plans to donate a further 10,000 free meals for NHS key workers, bringing the total number of meals it aims to deliver over the coming months to 20,000. It comes after the group raised almost ยฃ25,000 since launching the initiative 12 days ago. So far,…
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Apr- 2020 -29 AprilBusiness Bites
The aviation industry is now in very serious trouble
In a sign of just how distressed the aviation industry is, British Airways has announced plans to lay off 30% of its workforce, or about 12,000 employees, and says it expects it to take several years before passenger volumes return to 2019 levels. The chief executive, Alex Cruz, wrote to…
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29 AprilComment
The coronavirus crisis: The importance of adapting and reacting
Weathering the storm of the Covid-19 pandemic is a challenge for businesses of all sizes and the situation is continuing to change by the day. The food, hospitality and leisure sectors have been hit hard by the need to close restaurants and there is widespread concern over how these businesses…
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27 AprilCoronavirus
Prezzo enables early access to furlough pay
Prezzo is now offering income streaming to its 3,000 employees to enable early access to furlough pay amid the ongoing pandemic. The income streaming will allow workers early access to accrued pay, and provider Wagestream has also extended its service to cover furlough pay from the government during the crisis.ย …
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23 AprilCoronavirus
1 million hospitality jobs at risk without reopening plan, says UKH
An extended period of social distancing could cost one million jobs unless measures to protect hospitality businesses are put in place, according to UKHospitality (UKH). On the day that professor Chris Whitty warned that social distancing measures could last beyond 2020, UKH revealed it has written cabinet office minister, Michael…
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