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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Jan- 2021 -15 JanuaryCoronavirus
Pub and restaurant sales fall 72% over holiday season
Sales from pub and restaurant groups have plummeted 72.6% over Christmas, according to the Coffer Peach Business Tracker. The tracker is produced by business insight consultancy firm CGA, in partnership with the Coffer Group and RSM. Trading for the five weeks from 30 November to 3 January revealed that drink-led…
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8 JanuaryPubs and Bars
Marston’s Q1 trading ‘materially disrupted’ amid festive sales slump
Marston’s has announced that its trading in the first quarter of this year was “materially disrupted” due to continuous Covid-19 restrictions. In its latest update, the pub chain revealed total revenues came in at £54m over the three-month period, compared with sales in 2019 of £1.17bn. With pubs remaining closed…
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8 JanuaryPubs and Bars
Star Pubs & Bars invests £4m in lockdown rent concessions
Star Pubs and Bars will continue to offer all its leased and tenanted pubs a 90% rent reduction during the weeks in which hospitality businesses are required to close in England, Scotland and Wales. Its pubs will receive the concession regardless of whether or not they choose to operate a…
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7 JanuaryNews
Mitchells and Butlers succumbs to 67% Q1 sales drop
Mitchells and Butlers has announced a 67% decrease in first quarter sales for the 14 weeks ending 2 January 2021 which was attributed to the continuous impact of Covid-19 and the forced closures of all sites. The pub group has seen a steep reduction in sales and was heavily impacted…
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6 JanuaryFood and Drink
Greggs predicts first annual loss in 37 years
Greggs has forecast a £15m full-year financial loss due to Covid-19 restrictions closing its stores and reducing revenues. The bakery chain’s annual sales dropped by more than £300m year-on-year in 2020, resulting in the company’s first annual loss since it listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1984. The company’s…
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5 JanuaryGovernment
Mardin & Maras director banned for 7-years for undeclared takings
Caesar’s Pizza & Kebab owner Huseyin Gozel has been banned from trading for seven years after the Insolvency service revealed the restaurant’s undeclared takings and £400,000 worth of owed tax. Huseyin Gozel, director of Mardin and Maras Limited, which operates the kebab restaurant, entered into liquidation in September 2019 after…
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5 JanuaryNews
Restaurant duo banned for £173k tax avoidance
Two brothers who operated a restaurant in South East London are now banned from acting as directors or becoming involved in a company after they failed to pay £173,000 in taxes. Since 2007, Carlos and Fernando De La Cruz Vidal owned Santo Limited, a company which traded as the restaurant…
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Dec- 2020 -22 DecemberCafes and Coffee Shops
Pistachio Holdings acquires Creams
Pistachio Holdings, a firm backed by Ankush Shah of the East Africa-based Sumaria Group, has acquired a majority stake in the dessert brand, Creams. Creams, which was founded in 2008 by Balal Aqil and Adam Mani, currently employs over 1,400 staff across its 93-strong UK portfolio. As well as his…
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18 DecemberFood and Drink
UK hospitality sector loses £53bn in sales this year
The UK’s hospitality sector has lost sales of more than £53bn in 2020, with more losses expected due to the recent tier restrictions imposed on trading. The new Covid-19 vaccine could provide grounds for cautious optimism in 2021, according to the new CGA report. The eighth edition of the ‘Survival…
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17 DecemberCatering Companies
SSP revenue halves as sales dented by Covid-19
SSP, one of the UK’s leading travel food and beverage groups, has reported that revenue plunged by 47.9% to £1.4bn in the full-year ended 30 September 2020. The group’s like-for-like sales also fell 50.8%, after they were “heavily impacted” by the various lockdown measures resulting from the pandemic and the…
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