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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Feb- 2019 -28 FebruaryPubs and Bars
Star Pubs and Bars to invest £14.2m in its ‘Just Add Talent’ pubs
Star Pubs and Bars has announced it is to invest £14.2m on its ‘Just Add Talent’ manager operated pubs in 2019, and will increase the number of pubs to 150 by the end of 2019. Over £12m is to be spent converting pubs to meet the quality and criteria needed…
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26 FebruaryPubs and Bars
Pub and restaurant closures lead to 31% rise in insolvency costs
Insolvent companies, across all sectors of the British economy, that couldn’t pay their debts have cost taxpayers £3.07bn in payments to former members of staff during the last decade new research has revealed. Last year, during 2018, The Insolvency Service an agency of The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial…
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22 FebruaryAdvice
The benefits of mobile refrigeration in the catering industry
Being able to keep produce frozen or chilled is essential to those in the catering industry. While traditional methods of refrigeration such as static walk-in fridges are effective in storing produce that has to be kept at a specific temperature, mobile refrigeration offers greater flexibility, utility and functionality. Indeed, static…
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22 FebruaryPubs and Bars
Lucky Voice to open first new site for a decade
Karaoke bar company, Lucky Voice has announced it is to open its first venue in 10 years in London’s Holborn area. The company, which already has three venues in Soho, Islington and Brighton, will open its fourth site on Chancery Lane, in late February 2019. The 5,000 square foot venue,…
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21 FebruaryBusiness
Hospitality businesses hailed ‘heroes of the high streets’
Hospitality trade bodies have applauded the housing, communities and local government’s report which was published today (21 February) and said high streets and town centres needed to shift the focus from shopping onto leisure. This report follows the committees recent enquiry into what is needed to save the UK high…
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19 FebruaryBusiness
Suffolk coffee start-up expands to the Middle East
A Bury St Edmunds coffee start-up is tapping into growing demand for British artisanal coffee in the Middle East by opening its first distribution hub in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with support from the Department for International Trade (DIT). Launched in 2007 from managing director Scott Russell’s car boot,…
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18 FebruaryBusiness
Pubs and and restaurants suffer ‘January sales hangover’
Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups saw sales slump in January after a strong Christmas, according to latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker. Collective like-for-like sales were also down 1.8% against the same month last year, a downturn from December’s 4.1% like-for-like increase on the same month in…
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15 FebruaryBusiness
Patisserie Holdings sells Baker & Spice for £2.5m
Patisserie Holdings, trading as Patisserie Valerie, has sold its subsidiary company Baker and Spice to the Department of Coffee & Social Affairs for a total consideration of £2.5m. This follows the announcement of Patisserie Valerie being rescued from administration after it was sold to Irish equity firm Causeway Capital Partners.…
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7 FebruaryFeatures
Tea time: The growing popularity of plant-based energy drinks
Plant-based diets are all the rage. However, they’re much more than just another eating fad. They appeal to a growing number of people that aren’t just interested in health and wellbeing, but who are also concerned about sustainability and living more ethically. This is reshaping menu choices and is now…
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5 FebruaryAdvice
Which Facebook advert is right for you?
“Social media has had had an immense impact on the catering world and offers a huge opportunity for companies to grow their business with minimal investment. There are numerous platforms available to businesses, Twitter, Instagram, Periscope but the most popular is certainly Facebook. “To this day, Facebook remains the world’s…
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