Drake & Morgan to The Fable - Heritage American from JACKSON + RYE - Sipping and sampling in the City with Tirage - Young’s 26-seat cinema in Horts pub, Bristol - Wright Brothers open Spitalfields Market live seafood Mecca - Brunning and Price open Worsley Old Hall. Overview Drake & Morgan to The Fable Heritage American from JACKSON + RYE Sipping and sampling in … [Read more...]
British Foodservice still finding its way to growth
Writing on the NPD Group Blog, Bob O’Brien points out that, for all the recent, positive talk of the British foodservice industry’s return to growth, the underlying fact is that British consumers have not yet increased their use of restaurants enough to get the industry on a growth path again. The overall commercial foodservice market was almost flat, but ever-so-slightly … [Read more...]
Wetherspoon hits 900!
Wetherspoon chief executive John Hutson is pictured above with manager Julie Wilson at the opening – and celebration! - of the company’s 900th pub. The Poulton Elk in Poulton Le Fylde opened on the site of a former bar following a £1.4 million redevelopment project, with John Hutson commenting: “Wetherspoon continues to go from strength to strength and I am delighted that … [Read more...]
A Greene Christmas for many
The scale of pub dining is not fully appreciated by many, but this week’s Christmas figures from Greene King provide an insight. Pub retailer and brewer Greene King says it will be welcoming more than 63,000 customers into its pubs, restaurants and hotels on Christmas Day itself. Furthermore, more than half a million customers will be having Christmas dinner with Greene … [Read more...]
Pub and restaurant groups trade strongly in lead-up to Christmas
Britain's pub, bar and restaurant groups saw stronger growth in November than in the previous two months. Showing no signs of a trading lull in the build-up to Christmas, collective like-for-like sales grew 1.7% in November compared with the same month last year, according to latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker. Total sales in November, including the impact … [Read more...]