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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Feb- 2022 -4 FebruaryRestaurants
Hub Box reports record sales for FY21
Hub Box, the Cornwall-based burger and barbecue business, has revealed FY21 total sales for the 11-strong restaurant group increased 75% to £12.6m. During the 52 week period ending December 2021, it also revealed that unaudited company EBITDA rose to £1.47m, up from £539k in FY20. Like-for-like sales for the 33…
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1 FebruaryPubs and Bars
UKH urges gov to boost duty reforms
UKHospitality has revealed that while it has “heralded” the reforms to the alcohol duty system that were announced in the last budget, it is now urging the government to support the “beleaguered” industry further by expanding them. In its response to a government consultation, UKHospitality has called for the government…
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1 FebruaryPubs and Bars
Arc Inspirations secures £14m banking agreement
Premium bar operator Arc Inspirations has secured a new £14m banking agreement with HSBC, which includes a separate £5m facility to help boost the group’s ongoing expansion and growth. The £5m will in particular support investment in a number of new sites for Arc. It comes as the operator of…
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Jan- 2022 -31 JanuaryNews
Drinks sales remain behind pre-Covid-19 levels, data finds
Drinks sales in England were 10% down on 2020 levels week, ahead of a “much-needed” lift to the sector from the easing of covid-19 restrictions, CGA disclose. CGA’s Drinks Recovery Tracker revealed average drinks sales by value in Britain’s managed pubs, bars and restaurants in the week to 22 January…
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31 JanuaryFood and Drink
Marston’s sales dampened by Omicron
Marston’s PLC has reported a 3.9% fall in total like-for-like sales for the 16-weeks ending 22 January 2022, compared to the same period in 2019. The group said this reflects the impact of the Omicron variant and consumer sentiment related to the variant in the last eight weeks. Total sales…
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25 JanuaryFood and Drink
December delivery and takeaway sales up 127% on 2019
Britain’s restaurant and pub groups recorded a 127% increase in delivery and takeaway sales by value from the levels of December 2019, according to CGA and Slerp Hospitality at Home Tracker. It revealed the spike was due to the Omicron variant discouraging eating out in the run-up to Christmas. This…
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21 JanuaryNews
Festive sales slide despite increase in productivity
Festive sales were considerably down in comparison to 2019, but staff headcounts and hours worked are heading in the right direction according to the latest figures from Fourth, the global software provider for the hospitality, retail, and leisure industries. Fourth’s figures show that combined sales across pubs, restaurants, hotels, and…
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20 JanuaryPubs and Bars
Modest growth seen in new site openings during Q4
Britain’s hospitality sector witnessed “modest” growth in the last quarter of 2021, with a 1.6% increase in site numbers between September and December 2021, marking the first quarter-on-quarter growth for more than five years. According to the new Market Recovery Monitor from CGA and AlixPartners, there was a particularly encouraging…
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20 JanuaryPubs and Bars
Revolution Bars posts upbeat trading update
Revolution Bars Group, the operator of 67 premium bars, trading mainly under the Revolution and Revolucion de Cuba brands, has announced that like-for-like (LFL) sales for the majority of the half, from 19 July 2021, when restrictions were relaxed in England, to 13 November were very strong at +14% versus…
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19 JanuaryPubs and Bars
Managed groups sales dip 11% in December
Britain’s managed restaurant, pub and bar sector suffered a double-digit drop in sales from pre-pandemic levels in December, following the widespread cancellations of Christmas celebrations, according to the latest Coffer CGA Business Tracker. The research found that total sales in the month were down by 11% on December 2019, following…
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