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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Dec- 2018 -11 DecemberFeatures
Is tea about to have its speciality moment?
Despite being an integral part of the British psyche, tea is set to be overtaken by coffee as the UK’s preferred hot beverage of choice by 2021, according to Euromonitor. This is driven by a perception that coffee is a more modern drink which, coupled with the explosion in coffee…
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11 DecemberRestaurants
Soho’s The Duck and Rice eyes global expansion
Pub and Chinese restaurant, The Duck and Rice in Soho, is currently in talks to secure its first overseas licensing deal. Conceived by Wagamama founder Alan Yau in 2015, the restaurant said it had now consolidated its position as a London landmark, and is looking at other London locations, the…
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10 DecemberCatering Companies
Bidfood ‘Christmas Gift’ scheme recognises ‘hospitality heroes’ across the industry
Wholesalers Bidfood have announced they will launch their ‘Christmas Gift’ campaign for the second year running. The campaign winners include pub and hotel general managers, hospital chefs and community volunteers who have given up over 60 Christmases at home to ensure the enjoyment of others. With the number of people…
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6 DecemberFood and Drink
Star Pubs and Bars announces Birds Eye partnership
Star Pubs and Bars has announced it is launching two off-the-shelf menus in partnership with food manufacturer, Birds Eye. The move is designed to make it easy for licensees to capitalise on the growing family eating out market, which has seen a 3.2% year-on-year increase. The menus will be available…
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Nov- 2018 -30 NovemberBusiness
Street Feast launches new culinary partnership with Pastaio
London-based street food operator, Street Feast, has announced it has signed a new partnership with chef Stevie Parle’s pasta restaurant, Pastaio. A new outpost of Pastaio has launched at Giant Robot, Street Feast’s eating and drinking ‘rooftopia’ in Canary Wharf, and will deliver the same menu of fresh homemade pasta…
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28 NovemberApps & Technology
Costa and Barclaycard release ‘UK first’ contactless reusable cup
Costa Coffee has partnered with Barclaycard to launch reusable contactless coffee cup, which is said to be the first of its kind in the UK. Available in Costa Coffee stores this November, the Clever Cup utilises contactless payment technology to turn customers’ reusable coffee cups into a way to make…
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23 NovemberPubs and Bars
Imagine Inns opens fourth pub and provides facilities for local station users
North west pub company Imagine Inns is opening its fourth pub this week following a £500,000 investment with Star Pubs & Bars. The refurbishment has transformed The Railway at Bromley Cross near Bolton into a “family-friendly” pub serving food and also offering facilities for users of the village station. The…
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19 NovemberRestaurants
Restaurant bosses jailed for £800k fraud
Four Black Country fraudsters who ran a chain of upmarket Indian restaurants have been handed jail sentences totalling 10 years for an £800,000 fraud that saw them pocket staff tips and hide sales to evade tax. Mohammed Sharif Uddin, 48, Mizanur Rahman, 44, Sadiqur Rahman, 45, all of Wednesbury, along…
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19 NovemberBusiness
Pub and restaurant group sales remain flat in October
Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups saw collective like-for-like sales grow just 0.2% in October, according to the latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker. Underlying like-for-like growth for the Tracker cohort, which represents both large and small groups, was running at 0.7% for the 12 months to the…
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12 NovemberBusiness
Restaurant Group plans rights issue to fund Wagamama purchase
The Restaurant Group (TRG) has announced it is a offer a discounted rights issue in order to fund its purchase of Wagamama. As many as 290 million new shares are set to be issued in a ‘13 for nine’ rights issue priced at 108.5p. Current shareholders and analysts have already…
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