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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Dec- 2020 -17 DecemberNews
Revolution Bars swings to £32m loss in full-year results
Revolution Bars Group, the city centre bar chain that trades as Revolution and Revolución de Cuba, has announced a statutory loss before tax of £31.7m for the full-year ended 27 June 2020. The group, which had operated over 74 properties at the period end, also saw total revenue fall from…
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16 DecemberRestaurants
Wagamama sales boosted in Q3
Wagamama has announced that like-for-like sales rose by 7.4% in the third quarter ended 27 September 2020, attributed to the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme in August. UK revenue fell by 20.8% to £70.3m in the quarter, however, amid a phased reopening of its restaurants for eat in…
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14 DecemberBusiness
Pub and restaurant sales dive 90% in November
Managed pub and restaurant groups across the UK saw sales drop 90.2% in November, as lockdown hit England and trading restrictions continued in Scotland and Wales, according to the latest data from CGA. Its research collected sales figures directly from 48 out of the 60 leading hospitality companies that provided…
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11 DecemberCoronavirus
Pub sales down 84% on first weekend of re-opening
Overall sales across pubs in the first weekend of December were 84% lower than last year, a study by the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) reveals. The trade group which has touted “tighter covid restrictions” as the reason for this slump also revealed that just four in ten pubs…
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10 DecemberFood and Drink
Just Eat to create 1000 jobs as part of new agency work model
Digital delivery company Just Eat has announced plans to create 1000 new job roles as part of its new agency worker model for couriers in the UK. The plan which is set to be rolled in March 2021 will see all people contracted to work for the service entitled to…
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10 DecemberBreweries and Distilleries
Marston’s swings to £397m loss
Marston’s, the British brewery, pub and hotel operator, has reported a loss of £397m in the 53 weeks ended 3 October 2020. The company’s total revenue fell sharply from £1.17bn in 2019 to £821m this year, as sales were greatly reduced by the 15-week closure of pubs from the end…
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8 DecemberNews
UKH warns hospitality sector at ‘rent tipping point’
UKHospitality has warned that the sector is on a countdown to a “rent tipping-point” that will trigger a new year of hospitality business failures and potentially hundreds of thousands more jobs lost. The government has reportedly so far shielded businesses from eviction and the “aggressive enforcement activity” by landlords over…
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2 DecemberNews
Loungers posts 33% revenue drop
Loungers, the owner of Lounge and Cosy Club, has reported that revenue fell by a third for the 24 weeks ended 4 October, when compared to the same period last year. The group claimed that the drop in revenue of £26.3m to £53.5m was a direct result of the national…
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Nov- 2020 -27 NovemberCoronavirus
Fullers swings to £22m pre-tax loss
Pub chain Fullers has reported a £22.2m pre tax loss from the six months ending in September, with chief executive Simon Emeny adding it will be a “tough winter” for the company. In the businesses financial results for the 26 weeks to 26 September 2020 it revealed it had made…
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26 NovemberBusiness
Hospitality businesses claim £849m through EOTHO
Hospitality businesses claimed £849m through the Eat Out to Help Out scheme (EOTHO) providing discounts for over 160 million meals in August, new government figures show. According to HMRC, over 52,000 businesses registered for the scheme and 49,000 of these had made a claim for the scheme by 30 September.…
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