EBITDA
Our coverage highlights EBITDA disclosures from restaurant groups, pub chains, contract caterers, and bar operators, offering context on profitability, operational efficiency, and business resilience. Whether you’re benchmarking performance, preparing for investment, or assessing the health of competitors, we break down the numbers and explain what they mean for decision-makers across the sector. Our reporting helps F&B executives, operators, and finance leads make sense of the metrics behind the margins.
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May- 2019 -1 MayRestaurants
Pizza Express sees growth despite ‘challenging conditions’
Pizza Express saw its group turnover increase 1.6% to £543m for the 52 weeks ended 30 December 2018. In the UK and Ireland underlying like-for-like sales grew 0.1% excluding the impact from adverse weather (down 1.0% unadjusted) while internationally, the Italian chain’s total sales were up 8.4% when compared with…
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Apr- 2019 -30 AprilBusiness
Whitbread sees 40% plummet in full-year profits
Hospitality group, Whitbread has announced a 40% drop in profit in its first set of full-year results following the sale of Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola. Whitbread blamed Brexit uncertainty and weak UK hotel demand at its Premier Inns brand for the slow growth figures. Without the effects of the Costa…
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Mar- 2019 -14 MarchVenues & Properties
Pub with rooms brought to market for £1.15m
The White Lion Hotel, situated between the port of Newhaven and the Seven Sisters Cliffs in East Sussex, has been brought to the market for £1,150,000. The family friendly pub and hotel comprises a traditional bar area for up to 30 covers, a separate 20 cover sports bar with a…
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1 MarchRestaurants
Chilango to expand with £3m ‘Burrito Bond 2’ fundraise
London-based Mexican restaurant group Chilango looks set for an exciting year as it exceeds its original fundraising target threefold, to finance its latest site acquisition programme. Chilango was founded in 2007 by Eric Partaker and Dan Houghton, both former employees of the global tech giant Skype. The established food brand…
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Jan- 2019 -24 JanuaryNews
San Carlo Group sees 14.8% sales increase in December
San Carlo, the independent Italian restaurant group, said like-for-like sales rose 4.6% as over 250,000 people visited its restaurants during December. The group, owned and run by the Distefano family, operates 21 restaurants under the San Carlo, Cicchetti, Fumo, Flying Pizza and Signor Sassi concepts. Total sales over the five-week…
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14 JanuaryPubs and Bars
Revolution Bars sees 6.4% revenue increase in latest update
Revolution Bars Group, operator of 79 premium bars trading across the UK under the Revolution and Revolucion de Cuba brands, has seen a 6.4% like-for-like increase in the 26 weeks to 29 December 2018. Total revenue for the period was £78.5m and its like-for-like sales in the four week trading…
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7 JanuaryBeverages
Whitbread’s Costa sale to Coca-Cola given green light
Whitbread’s sale of Costa to Coca-Cola has been cleared by the EU, the clearance means the £3.9bn deal is expected to be completed this month. The sale of Costa will see a £500m share buyback programme triggered which will see “a significant majority of the net proceeds to shareholders”. The…
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4 JanuaryRestaurants
Wagamama outperforms sector with 12% sales growth
Asian noodle chain Wagamama has continued to outperform its competitors for almost five years (239 weeks) as it posted a turnover increase of 15.4% to £81.5m in the 28 weeks to 11 November 2018. The company posted a 11.3% UK outperformance of the market for the period. In Q2 2018/19,…
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3 JanuaryRestaurants
Caprice Holdings posts record turnover amid ‘tough’ market conditions
Caprice Holdings, owner of The Ivy restaurants, has bucked the high street trend by reporting a 0.8% growth in turnover for the year ending 31 December 2017. Its turnover for the year was £67.7m, up from £67.1m, and its sales growth was 2.1% on a like-for-like basis. The group said…
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Nov- 2018 -16 NovemberCafes and Coffee Shops
Patisserie Valerie CEO Paul May quits
Patisserie Valerie CEO Paul May has resigned from his role a month after a fraud inquiry began at the cake chain. May has been replaced by Steve Francis, who the company says has “proven track record of rapid operational performance improvements”. The company’s statement announcing May’s departure offered no thanks…
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