Spending On Restaurants Slows In April But Consumer Confidence In Finances Reaches 28-Month High
Consumer card spending slowed to 1.6 per cent growth in April, down from 1.9 per cent in both March and February, and below the latest…
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Food and Drink
Hydes Reopens Popular Chester Pub Following Investment In Refurbishment
Hydes Brewery has relaunched popular Chester pub The Mount Inn in Boughton, with a new look following a full exterior and interior refurbishment. Timed to…
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Drinks Sales Dip In Soggy End To April
Inflation as measured by the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index (FPI) fell below 10% in March for the first time in two years. The welcome…
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Company of Cooks, Gather & Gather and Vacherin Celebrate Well Grounded Partnership and 2024 Barista Graduates
Company of Cooks, Gather & Gather and Vacherin, together with social enterprise Well Grounded, have celebrated the achievements of the 2024 cohort of Specialty Barista…
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144 Bedroom Holiday Inn Blackpool Opens Its Doors
The new Holiday Inn Blackpool and Marco Pierre White New York Italian restaurant has this week opened its doors, following a hugely successful recruitment campaign…
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Greene King Invest 40 Million In New Brewery
Greene King will close its 200-year-old brewery in Bury St Edmunds and open a new £40million facility in its place as part of an ambitious…
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Welsh Rural Pubs Invited To Apply For Free Craft Boxes To Help Locals Get Creative
Pub is The Hub and Creative Lives are offering rural pubs in Wales the opportunity to get a free creative community box, full of art…
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Revolution Closes in Bournemouth
Bournemouth’s Revolution bar has closed its doors with immediate effect. An announcement made on social media on April 30 said: “We have loved shaking your…
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Wrexham Couple Celebrate Two Decades Of Running Popular Community Pub
A husband and wife team are toasting success after running the local community pub for over two decades. Mark Jones has operated the Stanton House…
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Unilever Food Solutions Unveils ‘Future Menus 2024’
Unilever Foods Solutions (UFS) has released its annual trend report, Future Menus 2024, which sets out the seven global trends that are shaping the food…
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Punch Pubs & Co Expands Its Portfolio With Acquisition Of 24 Pubs
Punch Pubs & Co has completed the acquisition of the Milton 3 portfolio, adding 24 fantastic pubs to the Burton-based, independent pub company’s 1,300-strong portfolio….
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Foodservice Inflation Dips Below 10% For The First Time In Two Years
Inflation as measured by the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index (FPI) fell below 10% in March for the first time in two years. The welcome…
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Arkell’s Expands Its Pub Portfolio And Backs The Next Generation Of Pub Landlords
Arkell’s Brewery has added another venue to their ever-expanding list of pubs, this time another in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The Wiltshire brewer purchased The Sudeley Arms,…
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SIBA UK Brewery Tracker Shows Tough Start To The Year
Figures released today show the UK brewing industry post a considerable -38 net closure rate across the UK, with all regions either seeing a reduction…
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Consumers’ Spending Confidence Rises As Cost Of Living Pressures Ease
British consumers are cautiously increasing their visits and spending in pubs, bars and restaurants, CGA’s latest Cost of Living Pulse research reveals. The exclusive survey…
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