Sales
This section brings together all our editorial coverage related to sales performance, revenue growth, and commercial strategy across the UK foodservice sector. From quarterly trading updates and like-for-like sales trends to group-level reporting and market analysis, we provide restaurant operators, pub groups, catering firms, and F&B executives with timely insights into what’s driving turnover, and what’s dragging it down. Whether you manage a single site or a national portfolio, our sales reporting is geared to help hospitality leaders benchmark performance, identify consumer trends, and shape strategies that drive sustainable growth in a volatile trading environment.
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May- 2022 -5 MayFood and Drink
Domino’s welcomes strong trading in Q1
Domino’s has welcomed a period of strong trading in its first quarter, with like-for-like system sales, excluding splits and the impact of higher VAT, rising 3.9% in the period ended 27 March 2022. Orders grew by 5.5% in the quarter despite a strong comparative, reflecting the “stimulus” to its delivery…
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4 MayPubs and Bars
JD Wetherspoon warns of ‘considerable’ cost pressures in Q3
JD Wetherspoon has seen its like-for-like sales slip by 4% in its third quarter of trading against the same period in 2019, with the group warning of “considerable” cost pressures for the industry. Sales for the group have slightly rebounded however. In its last interim statement, the pub chain indicated…
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Apr- 2022 -29 AprilPubs and Bars
Nightcap Q3 sales jump 52% on 2019 levels
Nightcap has announced its unaudited group sales for Q3 2022 were £9.6m, which represents a 52.7% net sales increase compared to the same period in 2019. It takes the total sales in the first three quarters of FY2022 to £25.2m, a 48.6% increase on 2019, after £7.6m in Q1 and…
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29 AprilRestaurants
Hospitality in London welcomes recovery as city centres rebound
Pubs, bars and restaurants in London are gradually returning to their pre-pandemic levels of visits after two years of disruption, according to new research from CGA and Wireless Social. Their joint Top Cities Vibrancy Report provides a “vibrancy” ranking of Britain’s 10 most populous cities over the four weeks to…
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28 AprilRestaurants
Gusto Italian appoints new chief operating officer
Gusto Italian, the casual dining restaurant group, has announced the appointment of Scott Grimbleby as its new chief operating officer (COO) to “drive expansion and growth as the business seeks to open in more locations across the UK”. Grimbleby joins from Living Ventures and replaces Tim Selby, who is leaving…
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28 AprilFood and Drink
Whitbread brings back dividend as it returns to profitability
Whitbread PLC has reported it has returned to profitability in the 53-week period ended 3 March 2022 (FY22) as it hailed pre-tax profits of £58.2m, compared to a loss of £1bn in FY21. As a result, Whitbread is reinstating dividend payments with the board declaring a final dividend per share…
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26 AprilPubs and Bars
Loungers hails ‘record’ sales and openings in FY22
Loungers has welcomed a year of “record” sales and openings ahead of its results for the year ended 17 April, 2022, after it maintained a “significant outperformance” of the market despite the effects of the pandemic. Whilst trading in December was subdued in light of Omicron, the operator of 164…
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26 AprilApps & Technology
Delivery and takeaway sales slip as consumers return to eating out
Britain’s managed restaurant and pub groups’ delivery and takeaway sales fell 24% year-on-year after consumers resumed eating out, according to the CGA and Slerp Hospitality at Home Tracker. Groups’ combined delivery and takeaway sales in March 2022 were 119% higher than in March 2019. Three-year sales growth for deliveries stands…
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22 AprilFood and Drink
Managed group sales up 4% in March despite inflation, data finds
Despite the high inflation, Britain’s managed restaurant, pub and bar groups achieved a 4% increase in like-for-like sales from pre-Covid-19 levels in March, according to the new Coffer CGA Business Tracker. It revealed the sales increase continues a “gradual upturn” this year, after a like-for-like drop of 1% in January…
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19 AprilRestaurants
LDC places D&D London up for auction
Private equity owners LDC has reportedly begun talks with financiers Interpath Advisory to launch a formal sales process for D&D London. According to Sky News, LDC has asked Interpath to begin talks with interested parties after exclusive talks with investment firm Montecito Equity Partners failed. D&D was originally founded by…
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