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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Aug- 2018 -29 AugustBusiness
Yo Sushi defies high street woes with 4% sales increase
Yo Sushi has announced it has seen a 4% rise in like-for-like sales for the year ending 27 November 2017. The group’s EBITDA also saw a 21% rise, while overall sales increased marginally from £88.4m to £89.9m. Yo Sushi Holdings was dissolved in 2017 leading to intercompany debt owed to…
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28 AugustAdvice
How to successfully manage virtual teams in the catering industry
Today the catering industry employs over 2.3 million people, and this figure is predicted to rise by 2.5% by the end of 2019, according to data from IBISWorld. What’s more, by 2020 half of the UK workforce will work remotely according to estimates. In the catering industry this includes roles…
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22 AugustFeatures
Get your daily fix: the latest coffee trends
Figures revealed earlier this year by the British Coffee Association show that Brits are drinking a staggering 95 million cups of coffee a day. This is an increase of 25 million from a decade ago, when the figure was 70 million each day. To help operators capitalise on this growing…
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20 AugustBusiness
Fergus Henderson’s St John to open permanent bakery in Covent Garden
St John founded by Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver is to open its first permanent bakery at Neal’s Yard in London’s Covent Garden. The new bakery follows two successful pop-up bakeries on Old Street and Bermondsey Street. St John has applied for a licence to serve wine off-sales alongside a…
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20 AugustBusiness
Restaurants see drop in trade as pub sales increase
Britain’s pubs fared well during July’s heatwave as managed pubs collectively saw like-for-like sales up 2.7% against last July. The latest figures from CGA’s Coffer Peach Business Tracker also showed that sales across restaurant groups were down by 4.8% compared with the same month last year. Altogether, the differing figures…
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16 AugustPubs and Bars
Imagine Inns increases estate with Star Pubs and Bars
North west pub company Imagine Inns has increased its estate to four pubs with a new acquisition with Star Pubs and Bars. The company has added The Feildens Arms at Mellor Brook and The Railway at Bromley Cross to its portfolio, and is to develop its new acquisitions with a…
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15 AugustFeatures
Boozer or bust
During a World Cup of dizzy highs and gut-wrenching lows, the British public de-camped from their homes and places of work to our most iconic of locations: the bar, the local, the boozer and, more and more frequently, the gastropub. These are no longer the sole dominion of pork scratchings…
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14 AugustAdvice
Opportunity: Create the ultimate landing page
As the first online impression of your business, your company’s landing page is equally as important as giving customers a warm welcome as they enter your presentable premises. Fat Media, a specialist in digital marketing for the hospitality and catering sector, explains how you can make the most of your…
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13 AugustBeverages
Star Pubs & Bars hires Greene King’s Paul Hunter as soft drinks buyer
Star Pubs and Bars has appointed Paul Hunter as its first dedicated soft drinks buyer as the group works to boost its soft drinks category support. To take advantage of the growing popularity of soft drinks, the group is also making Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) its official category partner, installing…
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10 AugustRestaurants
Wagamama ‘outperforms competitors’ consistently for four years
Restaurant chain Wagamama has said it “traded ahead of the competition consistently for over four years (220 weeks)” as its latest financial results showed a 7.4% like-for-like sales growth in the year to 29 April 2018. The group’s turnover increased 11.1% to £71.1m in Q4 and it reported 7.7% UK…
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