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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May- 2019 -31 MayAnalysis
The UK dining sector: A recipe for change
As concerns over Brexit mounted in 2018, consumer spending on the UK’s high streets was anything but “strong and stable”. One of the sectors most impacted was dining. Spend growth fell to just 3% year-on-year compared to 9% in 2017, according to our analysis of the transactions of over 2.5m…
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31 MayFood and Drink
Sainsbury’s set to launch vegan butcher
Sainsbury’s has announced it is set to launch a pop-up vegan butcher on London’s Bethnal Green Road from 21 June to 23 June. The pop-up, launched for World Meat Free Week will feature over 20 plant-based products including the supermarket’s Shroomdogs. Sainsbury’s buyer, James Hamilton said: “Whilst we’re seeing a…
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30 MayAdvice
How to train your baristas to boost sales
The most immediate, and perhaps obvious reason to concentrate your recruitment and training on your service staff is that properly trained baristas make better quality drinks. Our coffee is born of generations of expertise, hours of labour; it travels thousands of miles, and is slow roasted to perfection and it…
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29 MayBusiness
UK’s top restaurant groups lost £82m in the last year
The UK’s top 100 restaurants made an £82m loss in the last year, down from a pre-tax profit of £102m 12 months ago, research by accounting firm UHY Hacker has found. Furthermore, pre-tax profits at the UK’s top 100 restaurant groups have fallen from £345m since the first quarter of…
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28 MayPeople
Restaurant fraudster caught by his own secret books
The owner of a Derbyshire restaurant has been jailed for three years for a £480,000 tax fraud that was discovered when investigators uncovered a hidden sales book dating back five years. Nazrul Islam, 52, from Birmingham, hid sales in a bid to evade nearly £480,000 of tax payments at his…
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13 MayBusiness
Easter heatwave boosts drink sales while eating-out market suffers
The hot Easter weekend delivered different outcomes for Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups, latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker show. While pub sales surged, restaurants took a hit during the month of April. Pub and bar chains reported collective like-for-like sales up 5.3% for the four-day break…
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10 MayRestaurants
Leon announces 24% sales rise
Healthy fast food chain, Leon has announced a 24% sales rise up to £95m for the year ending 31 December 2018. The group’s end of year results represented a fifth year of unbroken revenue growth, which more than quadrupled in size in that period. Leon said it opened nine restaurants…
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9 MayBusiness
Virtual restaurant business gains investment
Virtual restaurant business, Ghost Kitchen, has acquired investment from angel capitalist group Jenson Funding Partners SEIS. The business will create and operate delivery-only food brands, all run of out of singular kitchen locations located in areas that have the highest density in food delivery. A tech-enabled food and brand company,…
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3 MayAdvice
Top tips for setting up a food stall this festival season
With festival season just around the corner, food stall vendors and pop-up caterers will be preparing to provide their services at music, sport and community festivals all across the UK. And with more festivals springing up year-on-year, competition is rife on getting customers to visit certain stalls. So, to gain…
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1 MayAdvice
Business expansion
Every business is unique and while the way each business runs is dependent on several factors, growth and expansion are key goals for most business owners and entrepreneurs. Rachel Tweedale, co-director at the Elite Fish and Chip Company, explains the challenges she has faced while growing Elite’s third-generation family business…
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