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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.

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.

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…

Direct Food Ingredients launches new division

The team at Macclesfield-based distributing business, Direct Food Ingredients is celebrating…

UK restaurants continue to expand despite recent struggles

Many casual dining brands continued to expand on British high streets over the last year,…

Easter weekend boosts restaurants following dismal March

Strong trading over the Easter holiday weekend helped lift the gloom for Britain’s managed…

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…

Salary pressure mounts on hospitality industry

Average pay for temporary or contract staff rose at the quickest pace since last September,…

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…

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…

Feast It secures £680k investment

Feast It, the end-to-end catering booking platform, has secured £680,000 investment. 

Organic food sector grows in Germany

A quarter (25%) of all food and drink products launched in Germany in 2017 carried organic…
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