Restaurant and pub groups recorded a fourfold increase in delivery and takeaway sales in April from pre-Covid-19 levels, CGA’s latest Hospitality at Home Tracker reveals.
According to the data, combined delivery and takeaway sales were 345% higher than in April 2019, when the sector was fully open for eating out.
Sales grew by 11% from March 2021, despite the reopening of restaurants, pubs and bars for outside service in England from mid-April. Month-on-month growth in takeaway sales was notably higher than in deliveries.
The figures from the Tracker suggest that deliveries, takeaways and at-home meal kits, which have all soared in popularity during the lockdowns of the last 14 months, are likely to remain a major part of consumers’ habits well beyond the full reopening of hospitality.
Dishoom named the fourth best large company to work for in UK Dishoom has been named the fourth best large company to work for as part of an annual listing compiled by Best Companies.
The Indian restaurant group, which was given a three-star rating, has also been named the best company to work for in the leisure and hospitality sector. Other businesses on the list include in that category include Hickory’s Smokehouse, which was ranked at number 11, The Coaching Inn Group at number 21, Peach Pub Company at 24, Hawksmoor at 27 and Mowgli Street Food at 28.
The UK’s Best Companies to Work For ranking uses a survey to determine an accreditation score. The scoring system ranges from ‘one to watch’ to a three-star accreditation for ‘world class’ levels of workplace engagement. The large company category considers businesses that have between 200 and 1,999 employees.
Hospitality businesses confident about summer trading, poll finds The majority of hospitality businesses are confident about their summer trading figures should the lifting of lockdown restriction go to plan.
Two thirds of hospitality leaders (66%) say they expect better-than-average summer if restrictions still enable them to have sufficient numbers of covers, Lumina Intelligence’s latest Hospitality Leaders Poll has found.
By contracts, only 8% of those polled thought they would experience a poor summer.
Almost a quarter of respondents (24%) have reported a significant uptick in bookings since the confirmation of the reopening of indoor trade from 17 May while 34% say they have sio far seen no difference.
Only two in five hospitality businesses are currently trading at a profit but confidence about future trading is on the rise, a new survey from CGA and Fourth has revealed.
Delivery and click & collect increases dominance of out of home occasions in Q1 Delivery and click and collect accounted for 44% of all out of home (OOH) occasions in first quarter of 2021, up from 42% in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Data from the latest Lumina Intelligence quarterly Eating & Drinking Out Panel report shows that both the quick-service restaurant (QSR) and restaurant channels increased their share of delivery and click and collect occasions.
The QSR channel saw its share grow by 20% from 38.8% in Q4 2020 to 58.4% in Q1 2021, while the restaurant channel saw an 8% increase from 10.6% to 18.8%.
In comparison, the coffee and sandwich shop channel saw its share of delivery and click and collect halve, from 29.3% in Q4 2020 to 14.7% in Q1 2021.