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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Aug- 2020 -28 AugustComment
Al Fresco pubs: How to create the perfect pub beer garden experience
A recent study carried out by Finder found that 60% of the UK’s adult population is currently working from home, a figure that is likely to remain relatively high until at least the end of the year. With consumers commuting far less into town centres, the expected footfall that the…
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27 AugustRestaurants
Wahaca to shutter a third of sites
Wahaca is set to shutter more than a third of its sites, following impacted sales due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The group is now planning to close 10 of its 28 sites. Branches affected by the closure include sites in Bluewater, Kent; St Pauls, London; Liverpool; Manchester and Bristol. Alongside…
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25 AugustRestaurants
BBPA calls for Eat Out to Help Out Scheme to be repeated
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has called on the Government to repeat its Eat Out to Help Out (EOTHO) scheme. The trade association has hailed the scheme, which is set to end after August, as a great success for many of its member’s food-led pubs, noting that it…
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25 AugustCafes and Coffee Shops
UK ‘rallies’ behind coffee shops after lockdown
Visiting a café or coffee shop was the most popular outing made by UK consumers since lockdown was eased on 4 July 2020, according to Allegra World Coffee Portal’s latest survey. According to its survey of more than 3,000 UK consumers, 55% of respondents said they had visited a café…
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24 AugustCoronavirus
Record economic growth anticipated for Q3
The UK is reportedly on track for a record economic resurgence during the third quarter of the year, following sharp declines in GDP at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Q2. According to the Financial Times (FT), City of London economists have predicted a 14.3% rise in GDP for…
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24 AugustPubs and Bars
JD Wetherspoon warns of loss following pandemic
JD Wetherspoon has announced that like-for-like bar and food sales were down by 16.9% in the 44 days to 16 August 2020, adding that it expects to make a loss for the year ended 26 July, 2020. In its latest trading update, the pub chain noted that sales have gradually…
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21 AugustRestaurants
Franco Manca owner reports August sales boost amid EOTHO scheme
Franco Manca owner, Fulham Shore, has said the UK Government’s Eat Out to Help Out (EOTHO) scheme has proved to be beneficial both for the company and UK diners after reporting a boost in sales at the start of August. It said trade in the first full fortnight in August…
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20 AugustPubs and Bars
Greene King swings to loss in full-year results
Greene King has swung to a pre-tax loss of £273m in the full-year ended 26 April, down from a profit of £172.8m reported in 2019. It comes after exceptional and non-underlying costs hit £380.6m in the period, up from £74.1m the year before. In the same period, revenue fell by…
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18 AugustCoronavirus
Sales jump 30% during second week of Eat Out to Help Out scheme
The second week of the Eat Out to Help Out (EOTHO) initiative saw a 30% increase in sales compared with the week before the scheme started, new research from Fourth has revealed. However, the research shows there was a slight drop off in sales for the second week when compared…
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14 AugustPubs and Bars
Brewhouse & Kitchen sales up 115% thanks to Eat Out to Help Out
Brewhouse and Kitchen, the 22-site national brewpub group, has reported that sales have grown by 115% during the first six days in which the Eat Out to Help Out scheme. Following its staggered reopening, the group had already achieved growth of 6.1% during its first four weeks of trading, with…
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