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 -4 FebruaryGovernment
Brothers jailed 14 years for £3m pub and restaurant tax scam
Three brothers, who stole £3m in a tax scam involving pubs and restaurants, have been jailed and banned from being directors for 28 years. Bournemouth brothers Shahab Hashtroudi, 64, Shahin Hashtroudi, 58 and Hedayat Hashtroudi, 68, ran pubs and restaurants in Hampshire, Dorset and Surrey, using the money to prop…
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Jan- 2019 -31 JanuaryBeverages
Diageo sees £6.9bn net sales in half-year results
Beverage company Diageo has reported a 5.8% increase in net sales, amounting to £6.9bn, in its half-year results ending 31 December 2018. The company said all the regions it operates in contributed to broad based organic net sales growth, up 7.5%, with organic volume up 3.5%. It closed the period…
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31 JanuaryBusiness
Caffe Nero acquires majority stake in Coffee#1
The Caffè Nero Group has announced it has become the majority owner of Coffee#1, after acquiring shares from its owner SA Brain for an undisclosed sum. SA Brain has owner the Wales, Midlands and south England based Coffee chain since 2011 and the first Coffee#1 site opened in 2001. The…
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30 JanuaryPubs and Bars
The Piano Works Group reports record Christmas trading
Bar and restaurant operator, The Piano Works Group, has reported its “best ever Christmas” with sales of £1.637m for the five weeks up to 23 December. Like-for-like sales at The Piano Works Farringdon saw an increase of 9% for the year whilst the new West End Piano Works (previously Studio…
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24 JanuaryNews
San Carlo Group sees 14.8% sales increase in December
San Carlo, the independent Italian restaurant group, said like-for-like sales rose 4.6% as over 250,000 people visited its restaurants during December. The group, owned and run by the Distefano family, operates 21 restaurants under the San Carlo, Cicchetti, Fumo, Flying Pizza and Signor Sassi concepts. Total sales over the five-week…
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24 JanuaryBusiness
The Restaurant Group sales drop 2%
The Restaurant Group (TRG) saw a 2% drop in its like-for-like sales for the 52 weeks ending 30 December 2018 compared with the same period last year. This is excluding the recently acquired Asian restaurant chain Wagamama. Including one week of trading from Wagamama, the group’s total sales increased by…
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16 JanuaryBusiness
Strong festive trading boosts eating and drinking-out market
Britain’s managed pub and restaurant companies escaped recent high street woes over the six-week festive period with collective like-for-like sales up 4.1% on 2017, according to latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker. Both pub and restaurant operators saw positive sales growth over the Christmas and new year period,…
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14 JanuaryPubs and Bars
Revolution Bars sees 6.4% revenue increase in latest update
Revolution Bars Group, operator of 79 premium bars trading across the UK under the Revolution and Revolucion de Cuba brands, has seen a 6.4% like-for-like increase in the 26 weeks to 29 December 2018. Total revenue for the period was £78.5m and its like-for-like sales in the four week trading…
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11 JanuaryBusiness
ETM Group reports record Christmas trading
The 14-strong bar and restaurant group, ETM, has reported its “best ever Christmas” with overall revenue up 16% and like-for-like sales rising to 13.1% for the five weeks up to 31 December. One of the biggest growth areas for the company was in pre-booked event sales which saw an uplift…
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9 JanuaryBusiness
Greggs reports a ‘strong finish’ to 2018
High street bakery Greggs said it had a “strong finish” to 2018 as it reported its total sales for the year were up by 7.2% for the 52 weeks ended 29 December 2018. This follows a year of “significant strategic progress” where the company saw 149 new shops opened in…
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