The ‘We Hear You’ survey collected responses from around 2,000 consumers at the end of their visits in nearly 60 venues between Saturday 4 and Sunday 12 July. The full report is available to download here.
Total drinks sales in England’s managed pubs and bars remained around half pre-COVID levels on the second Saturday after reopening, but Sunday trading picked up.
The pandemic and lockdown have profound implications for out-of-home drinking and the premiumisation trend in particular. CGA’s Mark Newton explains how consumer behaviour is changing—and how retailers and suppliers can capitalise.
As the UK hospitality sector gradually reopens for business, CGA has geared up its data and insight operations, developing new services and collaborations to support suppliers and operators through the vital early phases of recovery.
Today’s Special rallied hospitality businesses from across the country in just under three weeks to raise over £225,000 for those hit hardest by the Covid-19 lockdown in the UK and around the world.
Total drinks sales in managed pubs and bars that were open last weekend were 49% down on pre-lockdown levels on Saturday and 52% down on Sunday, CGA’s new Drinks Recovery Tracker has revealed.
Bistrot Pierre, Dishoom, Itsu, Leon and Nando’s are just a handful of operators reopening their doors to customers this week.
Coffer Peach Business Tracker, trading figures for pub, bar and restaurant groups on ‘reopening weekend’, July 4 & 5, 2020.
Latest data from CGA’s Outlet Index gives us a first look at outlet reopenings over the first post-lockdown weekend.
Managed pubs, restaurants and bars are planning a gradual re-opening starting this weekend, although operators are feeling both cautious optimism and anxiety about trading levels, according to the latest Business Confidence Survey from CGA and Fourth.
If reopening businesses after a three-month lay-off and with a heap of new regulations and restrictions to follow wasn’t difficult enough, there are those just waiting for pubs and restaurants to mess up.
BrewDog, Drake & Morgan, Loungers, Mitchells & Butlers and Revolution Bars Group are few in this week’s list of venues planning to open their doors.
The increase in COVID-19 cases across much of the south of the United States has put a brake on the recovery of the out-of-home market, with sales growth slowing nationally and going into reverse in some states such as Texas as restrictions on trading are re-imposed.
As the hospitality sector prepares for its 4th July reopening, key industry experts have collaborated to provide an integrated digital network that will provide swift and clear feedback, allowing consumers to rate their experience of sites’ safety and hygiene measures to help the market return, safely and ultimately profitably.
New research for UKHospitality trade association, detailing the lockdown impact on hospitality suppliers, has highlighted the risk of 460,000 job losses if Government does not extend hospitality support to include the supply side of the sector.
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