Drinks Sales Slip After Easter Surge
Drinks sales in Britain’s On Premise slipped below last year’s levels in the aftermath of a solid Easter weekend. CGA by NIQ’s latest Drinks Recovery…
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Sales Up for Managed Pubs, Bars and Restaurants but Costs Bite
Like-for-like sales at Britain’s leading managed restaurant, pub and bar groups in March were 1.4% ahead of last year’s levels, the new Coffer CGA Business…
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Easter Weekend Boom for Hospitality Industry
Bookings up 14% for Easter weekend as consumers defy the cost-of-living crisis to celebrate the first bank holiday of the year Hospitality technology provider, Zonal,…
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Redesigned Prison Restaurant Set to Reopen Next Month
Hospitality interior design agency DesignLSM is strategically designing a new restaurant and training space within HMP Berwyn Prison, located in Wales, in collaboration with the…
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Urgent Workforce Solutions Needed to Avoid Summer Slump
UKHospitality has demanded immediate action from the government to avoid a summer staffing slump for the sector. The latest data from the Office for National…
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Hospitality Rising Hits More than 100,000 Job Applications
Leaders behind UK’s biggest recruitment movement unveil incredible results as new operators sign up The biggest hospitality recruitment initiative in the UK, Hospitality Rising, has…
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Crunch-Time for Eating and Drinking Out Market as Consumers Seek Affordable Options
Weekly eating and drinking out frequency in the UK has declined by -6.7% year-on-year, according to the latest report from Lumina Intelligence’s Eating and Drinking…
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‘No End in Sight’ – Businesses Unable to Cope with Sustained Inflation
New data today showing food service price inflation remains above 20%1, coupled with rising energy costs and a lack of support, signals the need for…
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Restaurants Continue to Lose Out due to Diner No-Shows
1 in 20 UK restaurant bookings between the start of the year and February 2023 have resulted in no-shows, according to a recent report from…
Read more...Government Responds to Cut Hospitality VAT Petition
The government has responded to petition which called for the reduction in VAT on Hospitality to 10% from the current rate of 20% to allow…
Read more...Easter Weekend Lifts Spending Across Hospitality and Leisure
New data from Barclays shows that Hospitality and Leisure businesses benefitted from a 2.7% per cent increase in the total number of sales over the…
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Brits Cut Back on Eating Out in March
Consumer card spending grew just 4.0 per cent year-on-year in March, less than half the latest CPIH* inflation rate of 9.2 per cent, as Brits…
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One in Five Meals Consumed at Home in Europe Will Come from Restaurants
For the first time since the pandemic began, consumer spending in the food service industry in Europe bounced back to pre-pandemic highs, according to “State…
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Sacha Lord Urges Ofgem to Launch Intervention to Prevent Business Closures
Calls for Ofgem to Investigate Extortionate Exit Fees in Hospitality Industry Sacha Lord, the Night Time Economy Adviser for Greater Manchester, has called on Ofgem…
Read more...Businesses Urged to Sign Up to New Hospitality Wellbeing and Development Promise
More than 30 leading businesses, including Big Table Group, Greene King, Parkdean Resorts and Revolution Bars, have helped launch the new campaign by signing up…
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