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- 2020 -

25 March

Coronavirus

Britain ‘sees opportunity’ for food and drink deliveries, says CGA

In the week prior to the Prime Minister’s stay-at-home order, 53% of the public used or planned to use delivery as an alternative, according to the latest research from CGA. Some 13% of the public received delivery from a restaurant or takeaway either for the first time, or more often…
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24 March

Breweries and Distilleries

Distiller pledges alcohol towards 8 million bottles of hand sanitiser

Distiller Diageo has pledged to enable the creation of more than eight million bottles of hand sanitiser, by donating two million litres of alcohol to manufacturers amid the Covid-19 outbreak. The group behind Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff will now provide grain neutral spirit (GNS) to hand sanitiser producers across the…
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23 March

Advice

Waste reduced food life cycle

We can get so wrapped up in our daily lives, it’s easy to forget that throwing away a plate of food contributes to nearly one-third of food wasted or lost globally each year. If we were to reduce food waste, there would be more available to those who go hungry. …
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18 March

Comment

Goodbye to the traditional kitchen

It is estimated that the size of commercial kitchens has shrunk by a third in the past decade, so much so that in many cases, outlets will no longer have a behind the scenes kitchen but more a front of house area prep area. Not only is this down to…
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16 March

Trade Associations

UKHospitality calls for ‘enhanced’ government support amid coronavirus outbreak

UKHospitality has called on the UK Government to “step up” its package of business support as the effect of coronavirus continues to spread. It said the package of measures announced in the Budget on Wednesday were “helpful”, but do not go “nearly far enough” to support the vast majority of…
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13 March

Business Bites

BT’s boss catches it, markets rebounding, pain medication prices spike

Today I am going to rattle through a wider selection of stories than normal because the spread of the virus is hitting so many sectors hard, with key figures in the business community affected. The markets are recovering some of their losses this morning after having their worst selloff since…
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12 March

Advice

The coronavirus impact on the UK travel industry: 5 marketing actions to take now

It was inevitable that the travel and tourism industry would see an impact from the coronavirus outbreak. Travelling is a choice, and in the midst of safety fears, many are choosing to stay put or travel closer to home. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that January saw…
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12 March

Comment

How will the new immigration laws impact the catering and hospitality industry?

New government immigration laws outlined on Friday the 21st of February promised to permanently end so-called ‘unskilled’ immigration into the UK from abroad. A new points-based system with a minimum annual salary threshold of £26,500 is set to be introduced on January 1st, 2021. As an HR technology platform that…
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10 March

Business Bites

Banks to help us all out with coronavirus fallout

Once again the business pages on all major news outlets are pretty much dominated by the developing story of coronavirus – every sector has some kind of tale to tell. So here is the roundup from today. RBS said it will allow mortgage holidays for people who are forced to stay…
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9 March

Advice

How to adjust your business to the new immigration policy

Last month the government announced a new immigration policy that provoked a big reaction from our industry. The impact of restricting so-called “lower-skilled” workers from the EU and elsewhere overseas means many businesses are warning of staff shortages. The government’s terminology is dangerous, not to mention patronising, for a large…
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