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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15 March

People

German Doner Kebab appoints new MD for UK

German Doner Kebab has appointed Sofia Dimen as its new managing director for the UK to help build on its “ambitious” growth plans. Dimen is the founder of Basepoint Consulting and a former senior commercial consultant at OXYGY Ltd, a Bird and Bird international law firm, where she has worked…
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15 March

Food and Drink

Six celebrity chefs raise over £70k to support Ukraine

Six well known UK chefs have raised over £70k as part of a charity dinner to support the work of the DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Taking part in the one-off special event were Nieves Barragan (Sabor), Lisa Allen (Northcote), Tom Kerridge (Kerridge’s Bar and Grill), Angela Hartnett OBE (Murano), Neil…
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14 March

Restaurants

Hostmore losses narrow as revenues hit £159m

Hostmore, the parent company of Fridays and the cocktail-led bar and restaurant brand, 63rd+1st has revealed its group loss after tax for the year narrowed to £0.6m, down from £17.3m the previous year. The improvement comes after the group saw revenues for the 53-week period ended 2 January 2022 increase…
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14 March

Food and Drink

Hospitality managed groups’ sales up 3% in February

Managed groups’ like-for-like sales in February were 3% higher than in February 2019, according to the Coffer CGA Business Tracker, produced by CGA in partnership with The Coffer Group and RSM. It revealed the lifting of all Covid-19 restrictions helped Britain’s managed restaurant, pub and bar groups to raise sales…
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8 March

Food and Drink

Dominos welcomes ‘robust trading’ in FY21

Dominos has welcomed a year of “robust” trading in what it calls a “transformational year”, with strong sales, strategic progress, resolution with franchisees and significant returns to shareholders. Its underlying profit before tax rose by £12.7m to £113.9m in the period, driven by ongoing strong sales, with system sales rising…
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8 March

Cafes and Coffee Shops

Greggs to open 150 sites as sales surge to £1.2bn

Greggs has announced plans to open 150 new sites as its sales increased by 5.3% on 2019 levels to £1.2bn, according to its preliminary results for the 52 weeks ended 1 January 2022. It revealed pre-tax profits of £145.6m in contrast to £13.7m loss in 2020 and said it is…
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3 March

Restaurants

German Doner Kebab appoints global COO

German Doner Kebab (GDK) has appointed Daniel Bunce as its new global COO to help spearhead the brand’s global expansion plans. Bunce has been promoted to the role from his current position as managing director for German GDK UK and Europe. The group said that since joining in 2018, he…
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3 March

News

Nisbets selects Ireland for new national distribution centre

Nisbets, one of Europe’s suppliers of catering equipment, marks its commitment to the Irish hospitality sector with its planned opening of a new, 61,000 sq. ft national distribution centre in Cork, Ireland. According to the firm, its multi-million-euro investment will almost double the company’s facilities in Ireland, and will open…
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2 March

Catering Companies

Catering sales still below pre-Covid levels despite ‘modest’ recovery

Contract catering sales saw a modest recovery in the last quarter of 2021, new CGA research reveals, but Covid-19 concerns continue to hold them “well below” pre-pandemic levels. The latest edition of CGA’s Contract Caterer Tracker shows sales from October to December 2021 were up by 37% on the same…
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1 March

Pubs and Bars

Revolution bars returns to profitability in H1

The Revolution Bars Group has announced its pre-tax profits for the 26 weeks ended 1 January 2022 (H1 FY22) hit £4.3m, up from a loss of £17.7m in the comparative FY21 period, and up from a loss of £1.6m for the same period in FY20. Additionally, the group returned to…
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