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.
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Jun- 2019 -19 JuneBusiness
Bakeries competing with sandwich chains as sales outperform market
Bakery outlets have seen the strongest growth in on-premise business among major British quick service restaurant (QSR) channels, with sales and visits up more than 19% and nearly 18% respectively in the past year, data from global information company The NPD Group has shown. Based on its new Bakery Trends…
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3 JuneRestaurants
Social media delivery only restaurant, Twisted London, expands
Twisted London, the delivery only restaurant born from Jungle Creations’ Twisted, which specialises in creating recipe videos for its 20 million followers across social media, has expanded with the launch of five new sites. The new sites include London-based branches in Bayswater, Gloucester Road, Russell Square, Piccadilly and Edgware Road.…
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May- 2019 -31 MayAnalysis
The UK dining sector: A recipe for change
As concerns over Brexit mounted in 2018, consumer spending on the UK’s high streets was anything but “strong and stable”. One of the sectors most impacted was dining. Spend growth fell to just 3% year-on-year compared to 9% in 2017, according to our analysis of the transactions of over 2.5m…
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20 MayFood and Drink
Belsfield launches new vegan, vegetarian, gluten and dairy-free menus
Four-star Laura Ashley hotel, The Belsfield, has launched four brand-new afternoon tea menus in order to appeal to a wide-range of diets. As well as a traditional afternoon tea menu, The Belsfield’s two-AA Rosette chefs have created vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free afternoon tea menus. Priced from £22.95 per person,…
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13 MayBusiness
Easter heatwave boosts drink sales while eating-out market suffers
The hot Easter weekend delivered different outcomes for Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups, latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker show. While pub sales surged, restaurants took a hit during the month of April. Pub and bar chains reported collective like-for-like sales up 5.3% for the four-day break…
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1 MayAdvice
Business expansion
Every business is unique and while the way each business runs is dependent on several factors, growth and expansion are key goals for most business owners and entrepreneurs. Rachel Tweedale, co-director at the Elite Fish and Chip Company, explains the challenges she has faced while growing Elite’s third-generation family business…
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Apr- 2019 -30 AprilBusiness
Whitbread sees 40% plummet in full-year profits
Hospitality group, Whitbread has announced a 40% drop in profit in its first set of full-year results following the sale of Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola. Whitbread blamed Brexit uncertainty and weak UK hotel demand at its Premier Inns brand for the slow growth figures. Without the effects of the Costa…
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25 AprilRestaurants
Bristol café/restaurant Dela up for sale
Dela in Easton, Bristol has been put up for sale by the current owners. Situated in a former Victorian warehouse, the Mivart Street restaurant is being marketed by leisure property specialists Fleurets. Co-owners Mike Orme and Lara Lindsay opened Dela in 2017 and are now looking to explore other opportunities.…
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17 AprilFood and Drink
FSA urges vigilance in light of food hygiene rating scam
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has urged food businesses to be vigilant after it was made aware of a scam in Wales and England which references both the FSA and the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS). Three local authorities in Wales and one in England have received reports of a…
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11 AprilFeatures
Recruitment in the catering industry
When asked in a recent survey, only one third of employees from the catering industry said that they chose their job based on having a passion for food. But, what makes this industry an attractive one to work in and what is recruitment currently like in the sector? Is there…
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