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.

Sep- 2018 -

6 September

Regulations & Policies

UK dog owners demand dog-friendly restaurants after Wetherspoons ban

New research has found that 46% of British dog owners would actually dine out more often if they could bring their pet. According to the findings from Compare the Market, the majority of those asked 62% said that there are not enough dog friendly restaurants in the UK. Over two…
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5 September

Product Releases

Marston’s to become first in UK to sell bleeding vegan burger

Marston’s has announced it is to become the first UK chain to serve the B12 bleeding vegan burger created by Moving Mountains. The meatless burger bleeds like a beef one would when cut, as well as also smelling, sizzling and tasting like beef. The burger is set to go on…
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4 September

Features

What’s fresh in the bread scene

In recent years, health has become a key factor for bread purchasing, driven by consumers becoming more conscious of what actually goes into their favourite loaf and how certain ingredients and different types of carbohydrate affect their bodies. With the growing trend of plant-based diets and increasingly more people opting…
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Aug- 2018 -

30 August

Advice

How to prepare for seasonal demand

In the food service industry, proper planning is imperative, and the old adage ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’ really rings true. By now, efforts to plan ahead for the upcoming post-summer and run-up-to-Christmas increase in demand should be well under way. Anticipating the seasonal change well in advance and…
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29 August

Business

Yo Sushi defies high street woes with 4% sales increase

Yo Sushi has announced it has seen a 4% rise in like-for-like sales for the year ending 27 November 2017. The group’s EBITDA also saw a 21% rise, while overall sales increased marginally from £88.4m to £89.9m. Yo Sushi Holdings was dissolved in 2017 leading to intercompany debt owed to…
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24 August

Pubs and Bars

Greene King launches ‘industry first’ compostable straws

Pub group Greene King has announced it will introduce compostable PLA straws across its entire UK estate of 1,750 pubs, as part of its pledge to send zero waste to landfill by 2020. This move is set to remove over 30 million plastic straws from use every year. This follows…
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23 August

Food and Drink

New research reveals beef burger is the most popular restaurant meal

New research has revealed the beef burger as the most popular “out of home dinner” for the second year in a row. Burgers are closely followed by curry and then pizza, which overtook fish and chips this year according to research by food service specialists Kara, which says the results…
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22 August

Features

Get your daily fix: the latest coffee trends

Figures revealed earlier this year by the British Coffee Association show that Brits are drinking a staggering 95 million cups of coffee a day. This is an increase of 25 million from a decade ago, when the figure was 70 million each day. To help operators capitalise on this growing…
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22 August

Business

Restaurant offers free ‘Quarter Hounder’ to dogs

A London restaurant has began to offer a ‘Quarter Hounder’ burger to dogs alongside its human menu, with the burger available free of charge to customers’ dogs between 23 August and 29 August. The ‘Quarter Hounder’ was formulated as part of a collaboration between canine nutrition specialist David Jackson and…
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20 August

Business

Fergus Henderson’s St John to open permanent bakery in Covent Garden

St John founded by Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver is to open its first permanent bakery at Neal’s Yard in London’s Covent Garden. The new bakery follows two successful pop-up bakeries on Old Street and Bermondsey Street. St John has applied for a licence to serve wine off-sales alongside a…
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