Drinks sales for outlets still able to trade in the run-up to Christmas collapsed to barely a quarter of 2019’s levels, CGA’s trading data shows.
A trade agreement may have given UK businesses some certainty for 2021, but Brexit challenges around staffing and sourcing still lie in wait. That was the warning in a special December vodcast to discuss the latest Business Confidence Survey from CGA in partnership with Fourth.
Fewer than one in five of Britain’s licensed premises are now able and viable to welcome guests inside after the toughening of restrictions this week, CGA estimates.
COVID-19 has caused major upheaval in hospitality this year—but it couldn’t stop us getting the industry together for our annual 2020 conference. It was a new-look event, morphing into the online Big Peach 2020 Digital Experience, but it had the same expert analysis, big name interviews and panel discussions.
Ongoing restrictions have driven drinks sales down to just a third of last year’s levels, CGA’s latest Drinks Recovery Tracker shows.
CGA has signed up the 60th company to participate in its Coffer Peach Business Tracker, the country’s definitive monitor of sales among managed pub, restaurant and bar groups.
The UK’s hospitality sector has suffered lost sales of more than £53bn in 2020, with more losses to come from a collapse of Christmas trading—but a COVID-19 vaccine rollout provides grounds for cautious optimism in 2021. New report from CGA and UKHospitality looks back on COVID-19’s seismic impacts and forward towards a better year to come
Around half of Britain’s managed pubs, restaurants and bars were open and trading last week as lockdown ended and the new tier levels came into force in England. But as weekly figures from CGA’s Coffer Peach Business Tracker reveal, sales were well down even in those sites able to open.
After being battered by the pandemic in 2020, city and town centres will be hoping for better days in 2021. Here’s what three experts had to say about urban recovery and reinvention at CGA’s Big Peach 2020 Digital Experience.
How has the pandemic changed hospitality, and what’s the outlook for 2021? A panel of industry leaders hosted by CGA’s vice president Peter Martin gave CGA’s Big Peach 2020 Digital Experience their views.
Coffer Peach Business Tracker, trading figures for pub, bar and restaurant groups for November 2020
Hospitality professionals have told a new survey that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased their anxiety about long-term career prospects in the sector.
Legendary US restaurateur Danny Meyer, the founder of Union Square Hospitality, was a star guest at CGA’s Big Peach 2020 Digital Experience. Here, in his own words, is what he had to say to CGA vice president Peter Martin and Hawksmoor co-founder Will Beckett.
New CGA research in China provides deep insights into the market’s recovery for operators and suppliers—and shows there is light at the end of the tunnel of COVID-19 for UK businesses too.
One of the silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic might be greater collaboration between the UK’s farmers and hospitality sector. That was the view of Wiltshire farmer and National Farmers Union president Minette Batters in a supply chain session at CGA’s Big Peach 2020 Digital Experience.
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