A new report has been published that identifies for the first time the key trends and growth opportunities within the sale of beer, wines and spirits online in the UK. Wilson Drinks Report (“WDR”), who set up and contribute to the WSTA Market Report, has consolidated ePOS data from 11 leading online retailers. The result is a unique analysis of sales of wine online split by … [Read more...]
Flaming Grill Raising the Steaks for this summer’s football
Flaming Grill is encouraging guests to enter their flaming footy ‘SweepSTEAKs’ and be in with a chance of winning free steak every time England win a game in this Summer’s football. ‘Steak your claim’ The pub restaurant brand from Spirit Pub Company is asking guests to ‘steak their claim’ by entering the ‘sweepSTEAKs’ competition on the brand’s Facebook page. As part … [Read more...]
Investec Food & Drink Entrepreneur of the Year announced
The search is now on for Britain’s first-ever Investec Food & Drink Entrepreneur of the Year 2014, seeking top food and drink entrepreneurs from the nation whose food is now the envy of the world. The Awards are partnered by Business is GREAT/The GREAT Britain Campaign which showcases the very best of what Britain has to offer. Small or large, producer or … [Read more...]
‘Gluten-Free’ growing strongly in UK
Writing in the Technomic blog, Darren Ristano comments that at UK chain and independent pubs and restaurants tracked in Technomic’s Menu Monitor database, the number of dishes described as “gluten-free” has increased by more than 22% in the year from Q1 2013 to Q1 2014. Gluten-free continues to increase within manufactured foods, too. For example, Tesco now stocks many Udi … [Read more...]
Poor service and dirty table and glassware are ‘top restaurant turn offs’
Restaurants are losing out on income and customers by a combination of poor service and not cleaning and polishing their glasses, cutlery and crockery properly, a new study has found**. Over half of the 2,000 consumers surveyed by Miele Professional (52%) stated that dirty glassware was their ‘top restaurant turn off’, and a further third (32%) said that if they were to … [Read more...]