All Analysis & Insight articles – Page 116
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Food to go 'key growth driver' in eating out market
Food to go (FTG) has increased its share of total eating out visits by 1.4 percentage points (pp) to 42.3% compared to last year, MCA analysis reveals.
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Coffee shops see decline in visits and snack buying
Consumer participation has fallen at coffee shops and cafés and there has been a two percentage point (pp) decrease in the channel’s share of total snack occasions, MCA analysis reveals.
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How to tackle 2017’s ‘growth killers’
While the headwinds facing operators in 2017 are well-known, there remain ‘pockets of potential’ open to agile operators. Steve Cordiner, Investment Director at mid-market private equity firm, Livingbridge, identifies five areas where operators can seek to beat the ‘growth killers’.
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On-trade whisky sales increase by £29.2m
On-trade whisky sales have increased by £29.2m year on year driven by consumers switching to more specialist and higher quality options
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Data shows declining family pub visits
Falling family visits to pubs could be a sign of consumers economising on eating out visits, the NPD Group has suggested.
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Decline in demand for London sites
Demand for sites in Greater London fell from 36.9% of all UK requirements in 2016, to 33.7% in 2017.
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Analysis & InsightCoping mechanism
With Simon Cope installed as Byron’s new managing director, does the appointment and continued search for a chief executive throw up more questions than it answers?
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Bars on the rise in retail centres
Bars & wine bars have seen the biggest growth of any food and beverage sub-sector in retail centres, Cushman & Wakefield’s UK Food & Beverage Market report has found.
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Record numbers visit UK
A record 37.6m overseas visitors came to the UK in 2016, 4% more than in 2015, new ONS figures reveal.
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Food for thought
The restaurant sector has performed well in recent years with market growth underpinned by long-term demographic and consumer trends. But market conditions have become more competitive, consumers are facing pressure on their real incomes from rising inflation and cost pressures are increasing. A more cautious outlook on the sector is justified, argues David Chubb, Partner, Middle Markets, at PwC
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Young diners want more digital interaction with restaurants
A new generation of young casual diners want more digital experiences in restaurants, research from SaaS tech company Eagle Eye has found.
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Analysis & InsightTim Martin: How to negotiate with EU prima donnas
JD Wetherspoon founder and chairman, Tim Martin, gives his view on why the UK Government should adopt a tough stance in its negotiations over leaving the EU, including a pledge to grant EU workers in Britain the right to stay.
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Consumer uncertainty creates significant decrease in eating out in Q1
Consumer uncertainty in the early part of 2017 has created a setback for operators with a 3% implied fall in eating out sales, MCA analysis has found.
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Younger consumers seeking authenticity
Restaurants should offer a genuinely authentic, immersive, personalised, and locally focused food experience if they want to attract younger generations
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Double departure examination
The past few months have seen a number of high-profile departures at head offices across the eating-out sector. Dominic Walsh examines the legacy of two of the most prominent and surprising decisions to move on to pastures new
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Sector lfls up 4.4% in April
The Coffer Peach Business Tracker cohort showed its strongest like-for-like sales growth in more than two years last month.
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Eating and drinking out spend down in Q1
Net spending in restaurants, coffee shops and pubs fell in the first three months of 2017 – though millennials plan to spend more in eating and drinking out, Deloitte research has found.
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Consumers continue to spend on “experience economy”
Consumers spent 5.5% more year-on-year in April as a late Easter and inflation drove noticeable uplifts
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Hospitality sector spending up in April
Rising inflation and wage stagnation caused a slowdown in UK household spending growth to 0.5% year-on-year in April
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Analysis & InsightOrganic growth against the grain
America is the land of fast food. Kerstin Kuhn profiles three new concepts trying to change the notoriously unhealthy sector, tapping into consumer demand for certified organic ingredients