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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Apr- 2018 -4 AprilFood and Drink
UK food inflation plummets to lowest point in a year
UK shop prices fell at the fastest pace since February 2017, with it deepening even further in March. Food inflation slowed down substantially in March, inflation standing at 0.4%, down from 1.6% in February. This is the lowest food inflation rate since February 2017, according to the British Retail Consortium.…
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Mar- 2018 -28 MarchBusiness
Feast It secures £680k investment
Feast It, the end-to-end catering booking platform, has secured £680,000 investment. Feast It aims to use this increased investment for national expansion and to broaden its supply base beyond food and drink. In the past year, Feast It has grown 400% and in that time has secured a total of £1million…
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19 MarchFood and Drink
Organic food sector grows in Germany
A quarter (25%) of all food and drink products launched in Germany in 2017 carried organic claims, according to new data from Mintel Global New Products Database (GNPD) published today. Organic launches have grown steadily over the past ten years in Germany, with the number of launches growing almost fourfold…
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16 MarchPeople
Hospitality apprentices are the most in demand, says Adzuna
With National Apprenticeship Week concluding last week (5 – 9 March), a study of over 8,600 apprenticeship positions by job search engine Adzuna revealed the types of apprenticeships most in demand. The study, which uses Adzuna’s live job market data, showed that there are currently 1,351 advertised hospitality and catering…
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16 MarchFood and Drink
Scottish food and drink exports reach £6bn
Overseas Scottish food and drink exports were worth approximately £6 billion in 2017 – almost £570 million more than 2016. Food exports were valued at about £1.6 billion – a rise of 15% (£214 million) during the same period. Exports of food to Europe were worth £1.1 billion after an…
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16 MarchRestaurants
Marco Pierre White to open second Chophouse restaurant in Manchester hotel
Marco Pierre White is to open a new Chophouse brand restaurant at Manchester’s Velvet Hotel in April. Called Mr. White’s English Chophouse, the restaurant is to open following an agreement between Black & White Hospitality, which owns the franchise rights to five of White’s restaurant brands, and the hotel’s management…
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16 MarchPeople
Healthy lifestyles changing the way customers eat out
Three in five out-of-home diners proactively try to lead a healthy lifestyle impacting the eating out sector, UKHospitality and CGA’s recent Future Shock report has found. Research showing falling alcohol consumption and rising demand for soft drinks has highlighted the need to cater to health-conscious consumers, and young urban people…
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