All Analysis & Insight articles – Page 76
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Analysis & InsightConsumers spend £451 a year on takeaway food
The average UK consumer spends £451 a year ordering in takeaway food, according to a study by KPMG.
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Jamie Rollo on pubs under the new Government
UK pubs have been relatively resilient over the past few years, with industry LfL sales running up around 1%.
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Analysis & InsightMixing politics with advertising: a risk worth taking?
What do politicians and fast food have in common? No, not a new deal every day and a tendency to fall slightly short of what the menu promises, but cause to print a huge Whopper on the side of a bus, apparently. In a world where an advertisement for Iceland that dared to criticise palm oil is met with uproar and banned for being ‘too political,’ brand engagement with political debate may seem like something best avoided.
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Analysis & InsightGoodbody on Coffer Peach and 2020; Peel Hunt on Just Eat
Goodbody says the UK restaurant sector is still facing the dual headwinds of chronic oversupply and cost inflation, while Peel Hunt say Prosus’ latest offer for Just Eat ”significantly increases deal certainty”.
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Analysis & InsightFood inflation of 6.1% linked to major environmental issues
Food inflation rates almost doubled in 2019, from 3.7% (2018) to 6.1%, the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index annual report has revealed.
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Analysis & InsightThe Epipen epidemic - how is the industry coping with allergens?
It lurks within the industry like a parasite. With every order comes its next opportunity, with every new dish a new hiding place. A matter of when, not if, the next fatal allergen waits to be served. With the number of allergy sufferers on the rise, particularly among young people, one ill-informed waiter or one poorly labelled sandwich could mean the death of a child, and, potentially, the death of a business.
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Analysis & InsightGrowth in multi-site operators amid 2% total decline
The number of group run restaurants were up by 0.3% in the year to September 2019, despite an overall licensed site decline of 2%, research by CGA and AlixPatners has found.
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Analysis & Insight2019 – a year of rising input prices for food and drink
Prestige Purchasing’s chairman David Read looks back on an expensive year for operators, and discusses the outlook for food and drink costs in 2020.
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Analysis & InsightNearly half of Londoners choosing restaurants over delivery
Almost half (42%) of Londoners still choose eating out at ‘traditional’ restaurants over food delivery apps or cooking at home, the Annual Taste of London Food Report has revealed.
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Analysis & InsightFocus on: French casual dining chains
For a country associated with such a long established and fine cuisine tradition, it might be considered a little surprising that French food does not have a stronger restaurant chain presence in the UK, but perhaps the two elements of individual flair and multi-site brand consistency are indeed, polemically opposed.
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Analysis & InsightDelivery menus 6% more expensive
Average dish prices are 6% higher on delivery menus compared to in-restaurant menus, MCA analysis reveals.
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Analysis & InsightRestaurant spending down 5.2% in November
Spending in bars, pubs and clubs grew by 8.7% year-on-year in November, while restaurant spending declined by 5.2%, Barclaycard data reveals.
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Analysis & InsightOne in four UK hospitality employees worried about advising customers with allergies
Almost a quarter (23%) of hospitality employees are not confident about advising customers with serious allergies, research commissioned by Fourth has found.
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Analysis & InsightWill we eat out more than ever in the future?
I was struck by the recent MCA interview with Azzurri Group CEO Steve Holmes, and particularly his concluding comment: “I think if you wind the clock forward, people will eat out more than ever.”
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Analysis & InsightDelivery platforms increase London turnover by £323m
Third party delivery has led to £323m increase in turnover (+1.4%) across the restaurant industry in London, a joint study by Deloitte and Uber Eats reports.
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Analysis & InsightLow and no-alcohol sales double
Sales of low and no alcohol drinks in the on-trade have almost doubled (48%) in the past 12 months, according to a new report from CGA.
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Analysis & InsightDelivery market grows 18% to £8.4bn
The delivery market is valued at £8.4bn in 2019, up 18% year-on-year, MCA analysis reveals.
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Analysis & InsightDrowning in plain sight
Oh, we don’t like to be beside the seaside. It wasn’t always like this, coastal towns used to thrive on hoards of tourists flocking to the beach to lick ice creams, feed chips to seagulls, have fun on the pier and paddle in the channel. But in the 1960s the rising popularity of relatively exotic package holidays to sunny Europe saw numbers drop and the trend never stopped.
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Analysis & InsightUK branded coffee shop market significant slowdown
Allegra World Coffe Portal research has found that branded coffee shop outlet growth in the UK - Europe’s largest branded coffee shop market - has slowed to 0.9%.
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Analysis & InsightFrequency up across the board in eating out sector
Eating out frequency rose across all day parts in October 2019 compared to the same period last year, from 92.4% to 92.7%, according to MCA’s latest Consumer Dashboard.