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6th May 2021 Wholesale data analysis company, SalesOut, has revealed that since re-opening for outdoor custom on 12 April, pub sales in Britain have been boosted by 317%. The regions in England that have seen the biggest surge in pub sales are London (+691%), the South East (+376%) and the North West (+363%) – all leading the charge with drinkers and diners seemingly the most keen to get back out into the sector once again. As customers make up for lost socialising time, sales of Table Sauces...

NO SHOWS prompted a Swindon pub to abandon table bookings this year. Jane Tilsley of The Runner, Wootton Bassett Road, said the pub had a booking process for the Eat Out to Help Out scheme last summer. “Every single day there was a no show,” she told BBC Radio Wiltshire this morning. “This time I just thought I want to give everybody a chance to come, so we don’t do bookings. “I cannot lie, the pub has been flying. From 12 o’clock on Sundays every single table is sat on, t...

According to website Cornwall Live, the cheeky phrase has made it into the top 10 most popular queries submitted on the search engine in Britain, while “Prince Charles fingers” is the 20th most popular. The reason for the popularity of the search is because the Prince of Wales – who also holds the title of Duke of Cornwall – suffers from a condition called dactylitis. prince charles fingers look more like sausage links than fingers pic.twitter.com/2gjsiVK6yK— jim (@yung__mean) June 1...

"Today has been really positive," owner Alex Bodin said. "Lockdown has been a slog, not just for us but for all business owners. "It’s been a big relief. We’ve been carrying the pressure and financial pressures and worries about not reopening and worrying about are members going to come back on the first day. "The members have been phrases like I feel like I’ve come home. They have been saying it felt good to be back and back doing something. It’s given us the boost we needed. "...

Are you unwiuttingly helping to kill off local places? Read this Guardian piece and form your own opinion. Note.... “In a world where consumers want more, better and faster, we think Deliveroo is doing a good job,” concluded a report by the private investment bank Berenberg earlier this month. Plenty of people who make money from money are betting that Deliveroo is on a long-term path to profitability, even if its current set-up pushes the company further into the red with every order. “W...

Dramatic figures show how Nottinghamshires economy fell off a cliff edge in pandemic A mistake we cannot make is trying to create a city centre that looks the same coming out of the pandemic as going in 16:42, 29 APR 2021 Research has showed just how bad things got (Image: East Midlands Chamber) Never miss another Nottinghamshire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you pr...

Village cafe serves last snacks as owners retire ); A CAFÉ in Nettlebed has closed after 10 years as the owners have retired. Dave Field and Barb Grigor served food and drink at the Field Kitchen for the final time on Tuesday last week. They say they have been overwhelmed by the positive comments from the community. The couple, who live in Chalkhouse Green, had thought about retirement before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic last year. Since returning to provide only outdoor servic...

More personalised marketing, slicker service and greater efficiencies are just some of the benefits of the new era of digital order and pay Digital order and pay systems will help hospitality businesses as they begin to reopen out of lockdown, by helping speed up table turns and allow for better collection of vital marketing data. Speaking at a recent Hostech webinar entitled ‘How to stay connected with diners in a contactless era’, sponsored by leading hospitali...

The tumult of 2020 saw year-on-year drops of 22% and 7% in April and May respectively. Despite many businesses beginning to open up for the summer, spending was down 18% and 17% in June and July due to advertising boycotts conducted by hundreds of brands putting pressure on Facebook to tackle hateful content on its platforms following the Black Lives Matter protests. The negative trend finally began to reverse in August, which saw the UK Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme and Covid-19 re...

Sunak was said to have stopped the September circuit-breaker which was urged by Sage scientists at the end of that month, with minutes from that meeting saying that a delay would result in “very large epidemic with catastrophic consequences”. Yet accounts have emerged from this time that suggest it was the prime minister himself who was ultimately the biggest obstacle to the “circuit breaker”, a pattern that repeated itself in the days of chaos before the cancellation of Christmas relax...