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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Jun- 2020 -25 JuneNews
Young’s raises £88m from investors
Young’s has tapped more than £88m from its investors through a share placing ahead of pubs reopening from next week. The pub operator said it had placed a total of 4,263,453 placing shares at 1,160p per share, and 4.9m non-voting shares at 735p per share to raise £85.5m. In addition,…
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24 JuneNews
145 million additional pints to be sold with one-metre rule
Following the government’s announcement that social distancing is to be reduced to one-metre, CGA has calculated the precise sales boost this could give hospitality. According to the data group, the move would allow for 145 million additional pints of beer to be sold through the hospitality sector, compared with what…
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23 JuneCoronavirus
Pret a Manger: job cut fears grow amid sliding sales
There are reportedly growing fears of imminent job cuts at sandwich shop chain Pret a Manger after a leaked video revealed a significant drop in sales. According to BBC News, a video has been leaked showing Pret boss Pano Christou telling staff that an announcement would be made about the…
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23 JunePubs and Bars
Star Pubs and Bars reveals £250k investment package
Star Pubs and Bars has announced it is investing in a “comprehensive” reopening support package for its 2,500 pubs. The package includes a £250,000 investment into point-of-sale safety materials, with a free pack available to every licensee. The latest investment adds to Star Pubs and Bars’ £21m investment in rent…
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19 JuneRestaurants
Camile Thai Kitchen opens new London site
Camile Thai Kitchen has announced the opening of a new site in Barnes South West London, with further units to follow later this year in the capital. The group said it has seen its like-for-like sales in London grow by over 35% in 2020, which also takes into account trading…
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17 JuneCoronavirus
Domino’s braces for earnings impact
Domino’s has warned of an impact on earnings after it incurred “considerable” additional costs during the lockdown period. Newly-introduced measures, such as halting in-store collections and implementing social distancing schemes and contact-free delivery boxes, have “more than offset” the benefits from increased delivery sales, according to the group. It therefore…
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12 JuneCoronavirus
UK GDP slumps over 20% in April as full impact of Covid-19 is felt
GDP slumped by 20.4% in April 2020, following a fall of 5.8% in March, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It is the biggest monthly fall since the ONS’ series began in 1997, with the measure also falling by 10.4% in the three months…
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10 JuneCoronavirus
Pubs could triple off-premise visits with delivery and takeaway post lockdown
Publicans and bar operators have an opportunity post lockdown to focus on the contribution of off-premise visits to their businesses, according to global information company The NPD Group. In the year to March 2020, 9.9% of all British pub visits were off-premise – up from 7.6% five years earlier, with…
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8 JunePubs and Bars
Government green light needed to guarantee fresh beer in pubs for re-opening, says BBPA
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has today called on the government to ‘Get Britain Brewing Again’, by giving the UK’s 2,000 breweries sufficient notice and a definitive date for when pubs will reopen, enabling them to brew fresh beer and get it into pubs ready for their re-opening.…
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4 JuneRegulations & Policies
North London restaurateur banned for under-declaring tax
A restaurant boss from Edmonton, North London, has been banned as a company director for six years after under-declaring tax leading to liabilities of more than £200,000. Village Mangal Limited was incorporated in December 2012 and Ifras Coruk (43) was appointed the sole director at the same time. The company…
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