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.

Dec- 2019 -

10 December

Analysis

Year in review: trends and predictions for the hospitality sector

The UK hospitality sector continues to be an exciting industry to operate in. Up against a range of headwinds, not least the challenges of sustained political and economic uncertainty, the sector continues to prove its durability. In our Hospitality Index, we asked owners and operators of restaurants, pubs and bars…
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9 December

Breweries and Distilleries

Distillery launches £1m crowdfunding campaign

Leading organic Scottish distillery, Nc’nean, has announced the launch of a £1m crowdfunding campaign. The campaign, launched through investment platform, Seedrs, aims to support the distillery with funds for continued growth. Its target investment will go towards the launch of its first whisky next year, as well as the acquisition…
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4 December

Advice

Traceability: The rise of the conscious consumer

In today’s age, consumers are now looking to extend their consideration for the world beyond their own households and are adopting small changes in behaviour. The rise in the number of dedicated food-related campaigns such as British Food Fortnight and Seafood Week highlights the need for companies to support products…
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2 December

Restaurants

Delivery platforms boost restaurant revenues in London, study suggests

A new report by Deloitte, issued by UberEats, has found that third-party platforms are helping restaurants sell an extra 1.6 million meals a week in London, Madrid, Paris and Warsaw, boosting the sector’s revenue. According to the report, new technology is helping restaurants respond to shifts in consumer preferences, better…
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Nov- 2019 -

29 November

Opinion

Where have all the chefs gone?

Atalian Servest’s Chef Director Chris Ince, who has been in the catering sector since the early 90s, shares his thoughts on where chefs have gone and how we might retain staff. Catering is facing fiercer competition for new recruits than ever before. Despite the new NVQ system in colleges, significant…
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21 November

Regulations & Policies

Chef launches petition for TripAdvisor to demand proof of payment

Chef Damian Wawrzyniak has launched a petition calling for TripAdvisor to demand proof of payment before reviews can be posted, after one of his restaurant’s was hit by a series of ‘fake reviews’. Wawrzyniak, who runs the House of Feasts restaurant in Peterborough, launched the petition after his restaurant was…
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19 November

Restaurants

Restaurants ‘too unhealthy’ for 71% of Brits, study reveals

A new market report looking at restaurant trends for 2020 has revealed that 71% of consumers want healthier options available on the menu. The research from Paymentsense of over 70,000 businesses, plus interviews with 350 British restaurant owners and 2,085 consumers reveals that 50 million adults eat out in Great…
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11 November

Catering Companies

Deliveroo launches new ‘Pickup’ service for customers

Deliveroo has launched a new click and collect service for its customers named ‘Pickup’. Deliveroo said Pickup aims to help people save “time and money” as they won’t have to wait in a queue for their order to be prepared or pay a delivery fee. It added that this will…
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5 November

Restaurants

McDonald’s opens first UK ‘Delivery Kitchen’ in London

Fast food giant McDonald’s has opened its first ‘Delivery Kitchen’ in Hanworth, west London, to help nearby restaurants meet the demand from McDelivery orders. The new kitchen is part of a wider trial to test different restaurant formats. Most recently, the group opened ‘McDonald’s to Go’, a small format restaurant…
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Oct- 2019 -

23 October

Business

Just Eat revenues jump 25% in Q3 results

Just Eat has reported a 25% increase in revenues to £248m in the three months to 30 September 2019. Its UK orders increased by 8% to 33 million, driven by rapid growth in its delivery proposition, which is now present in all key zones. Group orders also increased by 16%…
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