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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Mar- 2022 -28 MarchCafes and Coffee Shops
Starbucks UK revenue soars 35% in FY21
Starbucks has announced that UK revenues rose by 35% to £328m in the full-year ending 3 October 2021, largely driven by the recovery of sales in both company owned stores and franchised stores following the pandemic. Profit before tax hit £13.3m, up from a £41m loss reported in FY20, despite…
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25 MarchPubs and Bars
Drinks sales hit record for 2022 amid good weather and St Patrick’s Day
Out-of-home drinks sales were 7% up on pre-pandemic levels last week, according to the CGA’s latest Drinks Recovery Tracker, in part thanks to good weather, St Patrick’s Day and the Six Nations. The figure, for average drinks sales by value in Britain’s managed pubs, bars and restaurants over the week…
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24 MarchPeople
Itsu appoints new CFO
Itsu has appointed Greg Thorp as its new group CFO after a successful 16 years at Pret a Manger. Thorp joins the leadership team alongside CEO Ganan Kanagathurai and founder Julian Metcalfe. Ganan Kanagathurai, retail CEO, said: “I am thrilled to have hired someone with the experience and gravitas to…
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21 MarchPubs and Bars
MPs call for end of ‘draconian’ pub tax
The All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group (APPBG) of MPs has released a new report which calls on the Government to “urgently address the business rate iniquity which is threatening the future of pubs and their communities while online giants continue to swerve the taxman”. The report, ‘Levelling the Bar: reforming outdated…
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21 MarchPubs and Bars
Pub and brewing industry shows support for Ukraine
Businesses in the brewing and pub industry are responding to the ongoing Ukraine crisis with donations, fundraising appeals and offers of employment and accommodation, the BBPA has said. The organisation cited a Hall and Woodhouse fundraiser as one such example, with the fundraiser set to be held today (21 March)…
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18 MarchPubs and Bars
Feb deliveries and takeaways double pre-Covid levels but growth slows
Britain’s managed restaurant and pub groups’ delivery and takeaway sales continue to run at more than twice the level seen before Covid-19 – but trading has dipped from the peaks of early 2021. That is according to the latest CGA and Slerp Hospitality at Home Tracker, which found that groups’…
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18 MarchCatering Companies
J D Wetherspoon returns to normal trading amid improving sales
In the most recent three-week period, to 13 March 2022, J D Wetherspoon has revealed it has seen sales improve to just 2.6% lower than the equivalent period in 2019. In its preliminary results for the 26 weeks ended 23 January 2022, the group reported revenues of £807.4m, down by…
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18 MarchAnalysis
13 Spring Statement predictions
With both the global and UK economies coming under pressure from the rising cost of living crisis, which has only been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, all eyes will be on the chancellor when he makes his Spring Statement speech on 23 March 2022. Here, Christy Wilson, tax associate…
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16 MarchCafes and Coffee Shops
UK food to go market to grow to a value of £21.3bn in 2022
The UK food to go market is forecast to grow by +31.8% in 2022, to a value of £21.3bn, according to the new Lumina Intelligence UK Food To Go Market Report 2022. The report revealed this will see the market fully recover to and exceed its 2019 pre-pandemic market value…
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16 MarchRestaurants
Wagamama owner reports strong sales in FY results
The Restaurant Group (TRG) has announced that its total sales hit £636.6m in the year ended 2 January 2022, marking an improvement from the £459.8m reported in FY20. Meanwhile, its adjusted EBITDA totalled £81.2m on a pre IFRS 16 basis, up from £8.7m in 2020, while profit before tax was…
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