National Minimum Wage
Coverage examines how statutory wage floors affect restaurants, pubs, bars, and catering businesses across the UK, including annual rate changes, enforcement activity, and the operational impact on payroll, rota management, and pricing. Reporting also includes government policy updates, compliance risk, and how multi-site operators and independents are adjusting recruitment, benefits, and training strategies in response to rising baseline pay rates.
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Oct- 2024 -24 OctoberFood and Drink
Hospitality groups see sales rise 1.7% in September
British hospitality groups recorded a year-on-year sales rise of 1.7% in September, according to CGA RSM’s latest Hospitality Business Tracker. This means that managed venues have achieved like-for-like increases in eight of the nine months to September 2024. Following recent below-inflation growth of 1.5% in July and 1.3% in August,…
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Sep- 2024 -12 SeptemberRestaurants
Majority of consumers support Tipping Act, finds RSM
A survey of 2000 from RSM has found that 80% of consumers think that 100% of tips and service charges should go to staff. Despite this, only a fifth (20%) believe that hospitality staff receive 100% of the tips from customers. The new Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 will…
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Jul- 2024 -31 JulyNews
Today’s news in brief – 31/07/24
UKH has called the changes to the LPC remit for 2025 “disruptive and unhelpful”, claiming that wages rates must strike an “affordable balance to help deliver growth for both businesses and staff”. The Low Pay Commission has also been ordered to narrow the gap between the minimum wage rate for…
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31 JulyTrade Associations
UKH calls new LPC 2025 remit ‘disruptive and unhelpful’
UKHospitality has called changes to the Low Pay Commission’s (LPC) remit for 2025 “disruptive and unhelpful”, claiming that wages rates must strike an “affordable balance to help deliver growth for both businesses and staff”. Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has ordered the LPC to factor in the future cost of living…
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24 JulyBusiness
Hospitality sees YoY sales rise 2.9% in June
Hospitality groups recorded year-on-year sales growth of 2.9% in June, down slightly from May’s rate of 3.6% but ahead of the current rate of inflation, according to the latest CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker. This marks the eighth period of growth in the last nine months. During June, restaurants were…
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May- 2024 -31 MayOpinion
Are we really out of the woods?
For most of us in hospitality: the last nine to 12 months have been very challenging indeed. One well known operator said to me recently that these were the worst trading conditions he had encountered in 40 years. My hospitality career nowhere near stretches that long, but I agree with…
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9 MayBeverages
Brewdog CEO steps down
Brewdog co-founder and CEO James Watt has announced that he is set to step down after 17 years in charge. He informed the board of his decision last year and will be replaced by the company’s chief operating officer James Arrow. He will still own 21% of the company and…
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Jul- 2023 -19 JulyNews
Hospitality’s recovery slowed by inflation and staff costs, CGA finds
Hospitality’s post-Covid recovery is threatened by rising prices in multiple key areas, the latest business confidence survey from CGA by NIQ and Fourth has revealed. The poll shows that half of senior-level operators are now very concerned about inflation in food and drink prices. In May, the CGA prestige foodservice…
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10 JulyRestaurants
Ivy Collection cuts employee tips after minimum wage increase
Employees at restaurant branches of The Ivy Collection have said they are being short changed on their tips after the company cut their share of the service charge paid by diners when the legal minimum wage increased in April, The Guardian has reported. A few staff at the restaurant group…
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Jan- 2023 -31 JanuaryBusiness
Average hospitality wages rise 53% in 10 years
The average wage for someone working in hospitality has risen 53% over the last 10 years, the biggest rise of any industry, according to ONS data analysed by Hazelwoods Accountants. The average wage has risen from £328 per week in 2012 to £502 per week in 2022. Hospitality workers have…
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