Trade improves two weeks post-lockdown

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Pub, bars and restaurants open in England have said sales improved in the second week after the lockdown was lifted as more sites reopened, according to the latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker. Like-for-like sales remain well down on pre-coronavirus levels, with sales down 31.6% on last year, but that still represents and improvement on the 39.8% level recorded in the first week back. Some 60% of group-operated sites were open for indoor eating and drinking, up 55% trading during the first week.

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