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.

Apr- 2018 -

13 April

Food and Drink

Easter weekend boosts restaurants following dismal March

Strong trading over the Easter holiday weekend helped lift the gloom for Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups – after a poor, snow-hit March. Latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker show that collective like-for-like sales for the four days of Easter were up 5.9% compared to the Easter…
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12 April

People

TGI Fridays hit with first ever strike over tips and minimum wage

TGI Fridays staff members are to be balloted by trade union Unite for strike action over tips and minimum wage. In the first of a series of strikes over the coming months, waiting staff from the chain’s Milton Keynes and Covent Garden restaurants will be balloted from 18 April to…
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10 April

Business

Salary pressure mounts on hospitality industry

Average pay for temporary or contract staff rose at the quickest pace since last September, according to the new IHS Markit/REC Report on Jobs. Average starting salaries also continued to increase sharply in March, despite the rate of inflation softening to a ten-month low. March data signalled a further sharp…
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6 April

Advice

Getting to grips with the ‘sugar tax’: now is the time to act

With the implementation of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy, now is the time for operators to be prepared, and put new ideas and solutions in place. This is a huge period of change for the industry, but it should be considered as an opportunity for innovation in your soft drink…
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4 April

Food 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 March

Business

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 March

Food 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 March

People

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 March

Food 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 March

Restaurants

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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