The latest Greene King Leisure Spend Tracker has reported Eating Out spend in November of £76, 4% up on the same month last year. Family households drove the growth, although Brits across all regions increased spend on going out for meals. However, total leisure spend was down 8% versus last year, due to a 20% decline in spend on Other Leisure, which includes theatre-going, … [Read more...]
Brits forget sustainability concerns when dining out
Restaurant booking service Bookatable.co.uk in partnership with the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) polled over 1,000 consumers who regularly eat out, and has revealed that, in spite of great individual efforts at home, which includes many the vast majority recycling (97 per cent) and reusing plastic bags (95 per cent), most are not as sustainably conscious when they … [Read more...]
Restaurants biggest winners in 2014 as consumers dine out
The country’s improving economic fortunes are slowly filtering down to households, leading to consumer spending growing 3.3 per cent so far this year according to data from Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of all credit and debit card transactions in the UK. A steady stream of positive economic news throughout the year, rising employment and falling inflation has had … [Read more...]
Measuring Christmas success – by crackers!
Cheshire based the Nelson Hotel's Group have ordered over 13,000 Christmas crackers to cope with a raft of Christmas bookings. The firm which runs a number of hotels in Cheshire from the Grosvenor Pulford Hotel & Spa in Chester to the Fishpool Inn at Delamere among others have bought 13,075 crackers from suppliers ICS. Boom-time for crackers sales ICS, based in … [Read more...]
Return of The Lickfold Inn
Chef Tom Sellers has re-opened The Lickfold Inn, a much-loved local pub near Petworth, in West Sussex. Tom is the chef/patron of Michelin-starred Restaurant Story in London, which opened in 2013. The Lickfold Inn has been a public house for more than a century, and the plot on which it sits is mentioned in historical literature dating from 1314. It was previously owned by … [Read more...]