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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May- 2018 -11 MayRestaurants
Wolfgang Puck to open London pop up restaurant
Restaurateur Wolfgang Puck is set to open a new pop-up restaurant in London’s Park Lane. Named CUT, the restaurant is set to bring a blend of Asian and French food to London in order to test the waters for a permanent location. A permanent branch of Spago, the restaurant with…
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11 MayOpinion
How the food industry can limit its plastic packaging environmental impact
There has been a real wake-up call in the food industry recently regarding plastic packaging. In the UK we throw away 800,000 tonnes of plastic packaging waste every year. To help combat the damage we’re doing to our environment we are seeing a constant stream of initiatives being introduced every…
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10 MayFeatures
Top drinks trends in 2018
There’s no doubt about it, Britain loves a drink. In 2017, the UK alcohol industry made over £40bn, and 53% of this (a whopping £21bn), came solely from the sale of wines and spirits. Our wine market is the sixth largest on the planet and wines and spirits support over…
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9 MayBusiness
Restaurants left to starve as door-to-door service bites
The UK restaurant industry is under grave threat from the growing trend of customers wanting food delivered to their door according to new research. A study by consultants Duff & Phelps found demand for food delivered to customers’ homes has grown 10 times faster than takeaway. Examples include food delivery…
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9 MayCatering Companies
Feast It predicts 600% growth as it prepares for expansion
Feast It, London-based street food caterers, has predicted growth of 600% by next year as it prepares for national expansion. The expansion comes off the back of a £680,000 investment, including support from John Ayton, co-founder of Links of London, Brown’s restaurants founder Jeremy Mogford, David Abramovich founder of cafe…
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8 MayAdvice
World of oil
Global consumption of oils and fats has grown steadily over the last two decades. Statistics show that in the last 10 years alone, the consumption of oil has nearly doubled. World average per capita consumption of all oils and fats has also grown progressively each year during the last decade…
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4 MayAdvice
Brewing up a storm to beat the competition
Despite the well-publicised increase in UK consumers’ spending on coffee, coffee shops are by no means immune to the economic pressures affecting all catering and hospitality operators. Staffing issues, increasing rent and rates, ailing consumer confidence and an uncertain economy affect coffee shop owners just as keenly as other food…
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Apr- 2018 -26 AprilAdvice
The war on plastic: Preparing today, to help save tomorrow
With the government’s bid to ban plastic straws, and the Prime Minister stating that plastic waste is “one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world”, Beacon, who represents over 2,000 hospitality leisure and healthcare businesses in the UK is urging operators that the price is worth paying now to…
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20 AprilBusiness
Direct Food Ingredients launches new division
The team at Macclesfield-based distributing business, Direct Food Ingredients is celebrating the launch of its brand new division dedicated to herbs, spices and natural health ingredients. This arm of the business will be headed up by new recruit, Dave Wheeler a procurement specialist, with over thirty years’ experience importing ingredients…
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18 AprilPubs and Bars
UK restaurants continue to expand despite recent struggles
Many casual dining brands continued to expand on British high streets over the last year, despite the host of challenges facing the eating and drinking out sector. According to the Market Growth Monitor from CGA and AlixPartners, Britain had 122,221 licensed premises at December 2017 – a drop of just…
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