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News
Informal eating out market to grow to £65bn
Turnover across the UK’s informal eating out market is set to grow by 3% to reach £52bn in 2012 and is forecast to rise to £65bn by 2017 with a CAGR of 4.9%, according to the latest research by Allegra.Allegra predicts that consumer spending will rise alongside increased average earnings ...
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Opinion
The road ahead is rocky
The UK has had an amazing summer, apart from the weather. However, the hospitality sector is still suffering. Horizons’ Peter Backman reports.It has certainly been a brilliant summer - and it’s not over yet! Weather apart, the Diamond Jubilee and London 2012 have really given the UK something to celebrate, ...
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Turnover up 5.6% across leading UK chains
The 100 leading UK restaurant chains experienced a 5.6% increase in combined turnover in 2011 an improvement on the 2.6% rise registered in the previous year, according to new research from Technomic, the foodservice consultancy firm.It found that the UK eating-out sector grew in terms of sites by 4.9% to ...
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Opinion
The changing of the guard
In a week that has seen Steve Easterbrook switch from leading Pizza Express to Wagamama, Jon Midmer, Head of Retail & Leisure at executive search firm MBS Group, looks at the UK eating and drinking-out market’s leadership landscape and how it has shifted over the past year. Tesco and ASDA; ...
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Operators make new salt reduction pledges
McDonald’s, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), JD Wetherspoon and KFC are among the companies to make further salt reduction pledges today under the Responsibility Deal.The Department of Health has announced three new pledges to meet the Responsibility Deal’s target of delivering a 15% reduction in salt in foods by the end ...
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Special report: What’s hot in the US?
Peter Backman, managing director of insight and information company, Horizons, provides a comprehensive roundup of the trends, innovations and issues, which dominated the recent National Restaurant Association (NRA) conference in Chicago.Grimly determined to hang on in thereThere is a real feeling of grim determination in the US foodservice industry - ...
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Survey highlights North-South price divide
A snapshot survey by the Daily Mail has found that high street chains, including those in the eating and drinking-out sector, are operating a north-south divide with prices in northern cities considerably cheaper.The newspaper said that Greggs, for example, charges 85p for a large sausage roll in Hammersmith, which is ...