The UK’s top restaurant groups achieved 4% year-on-year growth in delivery and takeaway sales in July according to CGA by NIQ.
The Hospitality at Home Tracker shows a second successive month of growth, following an extended fall in sales post-Covid as consumers returned to eating out.
Delivery and takeaway and click and collect sales were ahead by 6% and 2% respectively in July.
However, order volumes fell by 4% and 2%, an indication that trading growth is being achieved by higher menu prices rather than consumer demand.
Combined delivery and takeaway sales accounted for 14% of restaurant groups’ total sales in July, the tracker shows with food and drink taking shares of 91% and 9% respectively.
Karl Chessell, CGA’s director for hospitality operators and food, EMEA, said, “After the post-lockdown slump, restaurants’ delivery and takeaway sales may be settling into a new normal of modest year-on-year growth.
”This is a solid performance in the context of tight spending, but the ongoing drop in volumes suggests that price rises may be leading some people to reduce the frequency of their deliveries and takeaways.
“Until pressures on household bills ease, it will be difficult for many groups to achieve sustained delivery and takeaway sales growth above the rate of inflation.”
