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.

  • Jan- 2019 -
    16 January
    FeaturesTop trends in hospitality for 2019

    Top trends in hospitality for 2019

    Accounting for over 10% of global GDP and the creation of one in five new jobs according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, travel and tourism continues to be one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. It is also an industry undergoing rapid transformation, shaped by new technologies and the…

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  • 15 January
    FeaturesHow LPG is fuelling the UK’s booming street food industry

    How LPG is fuelling the UK’s booming street food industry

    The chances are that most of us will have eaten food from a street food vendor at some point in the last 12 months. From small summertime farmer’s markets, to giant festivals, to the numerous Christmas markets found in towns and cities throughout December, street food is now a part…

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  • 11 January
    AdviceHow to save energy on your cooking equipment

    How to save energy on your cooking equipment

    Selecting the right cooking equipment is crucial to any restaurant or other catering business as acquiring the best solution saves a lot of energy and reduces running costs, which ultimately increases profits. But which are the most energy efficient equipment on the market and how difficult is it to compare…

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  • Dec- 2018 -
    21 December
    OpinionFood and drink culture – the rebellion is here

    Food and drink culture – the rebellion is here

    For decades, there has been strict control on how we eat, when we eat and what we eat. Historically, there existed an old routine of only having porridge or sausages in the morning; or only having a club sandwich at noon; or indeed roast beef and mashed potatoes in the…

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  • 21 December
    RestaurantsNew Indo-Chinese ‘concept’ restaurant to open in Soho

    New Indo-Chinese ‘concept’ restaurant to open in Soho

    The restaurant group behind Bombay Chow, Station 31, and Imperial Lounge, has announced it is to open a fourth Indo-Chinese “concept” restaurant in Soho. Opening at the former site of Tabun Kitchen at 77 Berwick Street, the restaurant is expected to start serving from March 2019, following “a comprehensive refurbishment”.…

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  • 20 December
    BusinessConfidence ‘under pressure’ across eating and drinking-out market

    Confidence ‘under pressure’ across eating and drinking-out market

    Business confidence among leaders of Britain’s eating and drinking-out market remains strained, the latest edition of the CGA Business Confidence Survey, produced in partnership with Fourth has revealed. While 63% – slightly down from the last poll in July – are optimistic about their own businesses’ prospects for next 12…

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  • 18 December
    OpinionFour drinks trends for 2019

    Four drinks trends for 2019

    Independent drinks company Global Brands supplies a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to restaurants, bars and pubs around the world. Based on consumer research, sales data and customer relations, the company has identified four trends that will influence on-trade drinks purchasing in 2019. Marketing director, Jen Draper, shared these…

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  • 14 December
    BeveragesFranklin & Sons sees gin sales double due to ‘demand’ for natural ingredients

    Franklin & Sons sees gin sales double due to ‘demand’ for natural ingredients

    Independent drinks company Global Brands has seen sales of its premium tonics, mixers and soft drinks range Franklin & Sons more than double on the back of the gin boom as it says customers “demand natural ingredients”. Total value sales of the range increased by more than double in the…

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  • 12 December
    Breweries and DistilleriesAnglesey’s The Seacroft pub sold to Robinson’s Brewery

    Anglesey’s The Seacroft pub sold to Robinson’s Brewery

    The Seacroft pub in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey has been sold to independent family brewer Frederic Robinson Ltd by property specialists Fleurets. The property was previously privately owned, and features a lounge bar and dining area with approximately 120 covers as well as six ensuite letting bedrooms alongside an external terrace…

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  • 11 December
    FeaturesIs tea about to have its speciality moment?

    Is tea about to have its speciality moment?

    Despite being an integral part of the British psyche, tea is set to be overtaken by coffee as the UK’s preferred hot beverage of choice by 2021, according to Euromonitor. This is driven by a perception that coffee is a more modern drink which, coupled with the explosion in coffee…

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