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Differentiation is key to a successful rollout
The ability to provide a differentiated experience is key to a successful rollout, and one that Loungers is able to offer, according to analysts Berenberg.
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Built-up demand competes with limited outside supply
Eating out reservations on 12 April were up 79% on the equivalent Monday of 2019, Office for National Statistics data shows.
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Confidence buoyed by outdoors opening
Three in four operators (74%) are confident or very confident that the rest of the re-opening roadmap will continue as planned.
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Contactless brands: Chilango’s digital-only trial
If the pandemic has highlighted anything, it is that human beings crave contact. Those everyday interactions mean so much and have been sorely missed over the past 12 months. So it felt like counter-intuitive for a hospitality brand to move away from human contact with its customers altogether, towards a purely digital experience.
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Licensed trade off to a solid start
Licensed premises in England enjoyed a reopening bounce on Monday, with preliminary analysis showing like-for-like sales up 58.6%, compared to the same Monday in 2019.
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Eating out picks up
Eating out is on the increase, following the return of schools, and as consumers return to the office, Lumina Intelligence’s Eating and Drinking Out Panel reveals.
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Consumers book al fresco meals
One in four consumers (26%) have been booking post-lockdown activities in March, with 41% of these booking restaurant reservations for meals outdoors, Barclaycard data reveals.
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Who will win as the food-to-go market recovers?
Coronavirus wiped almost £10bn off the value of the food to go market in 2020, but while 2021 has got off to a tough start with continued restrictions and limited travel, a full recovery is expected in 2022.
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Police check due diligence on outdoor trading
Outside structures have emerged as the new flashpoint with local authorities, as operators seek to make the most of al fresco trading, Kate Nicholls has said.
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Rent debt: ‘There’s going to be pain on both sides’
Rent debt remains the biggest unsolved problem of the pandemic, a looming prospect which threatens to wreck the recovery of a sector before it has begun.
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Doubt over delivery growth - poll
Only a very small minority of operators (6%) believe delivery volumes will continue to grow when dining out reopens.
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Leisure spend shows encouraging signs
Face-to-face leisure & entertainment spend was up 136% last week, in a positive sign of the pent-up demand for the reopening of hospitality.
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Uptick in outlet growth expected for food to go
The number of food to go outlets is forecast to grow by 0.6% this year, following modest growth of 0.2% in 2020, according to Lumina Intelligence’s new UK Food to Go Market Report.
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Track and trace rules will have major impact on business
Four in five (82%) hospitality leaders say new track and trace rules requiring all guests to sign in will impact their business.
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CACI: ‘The way we move has changed indefinitely’
Covid has transformed the way consumers engage with space and will continue to do so because of a long-lasting impact of the virus on mobility, MCA’s Food to Go Conference has heard.
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Investor view: ‘Huge availability of property’ coming
Investment hunger for food-to-go opportunities will build post-pandemic and focus on category leaders and the strongest operators, MCA’s Food To Go conference has heard.
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‘Significant’ numbers will not trade from 12 April
Two in five licensed premises – more than 41,000– will be able to trade from 12 April, but many will not because of profitability issues and poor weather.
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Majority plan to bring back staff by May
Nearly three in five hospitality operators (59%) expect to bring back their staff from furlough by or before May.
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MCA digital edition out now
The digital edition of MCA is now available, featuring news and interviews from our Retailers’ Retailer Awards, opinion from Peter Martin and Dominic Walsh and insight from Lumina Intelligence.
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Rent amnesty offers ‘little meaningful support’
The vast majority of operators say the government’s three-month extension of the rent moratorium offers little or no meaningful support, as it only defers the problem.