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.

Feb- 2020 -

5 February

Business Bites

Tesla, Macy’s and organic food: serious change is afoot

Sometimes change is sudden and surprising, but sometimes it bubbles away under the surface for decades before making a serious impact, and in today’s roundup I have a few examples of the latter to highlight. First, there is Tesla. The firm led by billionaire space-AI Elon Musk has long been…
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4 February

Restaurants

Searcys welcomes ‘successful’ 2019

British restaurateur and catering company Searcys said it is “pleased” to report the group had a “successful” 2019. Last year, the hospitality group hosted over 15,000 commercial events across its portfolio and accommodated over 380,000 guests across its restaurants. This led to a reported revenue increase of 17.5% from 2018,…
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3 February

Business Bites

What’s Nissan driving at with Brexit plans?

Now that the technical aspect of leaving the EU has happened on paper, we are into the implementation period, but the negotiations will soon get going once again. The pound fell today as in a speech which actually overlapped Michel Barnier’s opening salvo with competing coverage, Boris Johnson reiterated his…
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3 February

People

Fuller’s appoints Kate Eastwood as operations director

Fuller, Smith and Turner, the premium pubs and hotels business, has appointed Kate Eastwood to the role of operations director for its city division. Eastwood has a background in food, retail marketing and most recently sales in the hospitality sector. She joins from Revolution Bars where she held the post…
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Jan- 2020 -

31 January

Business Bites

The whole Amazon thing is getting scary now

The ‘growth of online retail’ is now so proverbial that the phrase itself is nearly redundant. Is anyone surprised to learn this morning that Amazon has absolutely rampaged through the Christmas retail season, while scores of well-known bricks-and-mortar retailers reported a torrid set of financial results for the same period? No, me…
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31 January

Beverages

Educate consumers to boost wine sales, says CGA

Operators and suppliers should use recommendations, tastings and other tools to help consumers improve their knowledge of wine and rejuvenate sales, the CGA has said. The hospitality research group’s latest ‘Next Big Thing For Wine?’ report has also revealed the major market trends and forecasts. The publication comes as the…
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30 January

Restaurants

McDonald’s UK to open 60 restaurants in 2020

McDonald’s UK has revealed it is aiming to open a further 60 restaurants across the UK and Ireland as it prepares to invest £1bn over the next three years. The news comes as McDonald’s revealed that global sales for the year ending 31 December 2019 passed $100bn (£76.7bn), with consolidated…
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30 January

Pubs and Bars

Fuller’s reports strong sales growth over Christmas period

Fuller, Smith and Turner has reported a 4.3% increase in like-for-like sales of managed pubs and hotels over the Christmas trading period. The group also saw a 2.5% increase in sales during the 42 weeks ended 18 January 2020, with all areas of the business, including food, drink and accommodation,…
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29 January

Business Bites

British Airways gets flighty and Starbucks smells the coffee over coronavirus

The business response to the coronavirus situation, which appears to be developing into a serious crisis, continues apace today. British Airways today announced that it was suspending all flights between the UK and Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus originally broke out. In a statement it said: “We have…
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29 January

Restaurants

Bird Brixton set to open on Electric Avenue

Fried chicken and waffle chain Bird has announced the opening of its first new site in 2020 on Electric Avenue in Brixton. The new 40-cover site will feature classic Bird dishes including fried chicken and waffles served with honey butter and Canadian maple syrup, their trademark Waffle Burger and their…
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