While it took a larger slice of the UK takeaway market in Q1, the company said the sector as a whole was “challenging”. “This is particularly important in an environment where there are pressures on labour availability and wage inflation.” “Collection represents the most efficient labour channel, with delivery effectively outsourced to the customer,” Domino’s said. This, the company said, helped it avoid rising labour costs by ‘outsourcing’ work to customers. According to the ONS, a basket of flour, tomatoes, cheese and sliced meat was 31% more expensive this March than it was a year earlier.Ĭollection orders grew much more quickly. However, the 10.7% rise in sales, before the impact of lastr year’s hike in VAT, was well below food inflation.
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Pizza chain Domino's said it would focus more on collections so it can limit the impact of rising delivery driver pay on its bottom line. The pizza giant said it could avoid rising labour costs by ‘outsourcing’ delivery work to customers Sunday sunshine helps Coronation pub takingsĭomino’s turns to collection to avoid the hit of delivery driver pay rises #business #retail #hospitality #hospitalityindustry #economy #sales #pubs #bars #clubs #restaurant BBC News The City Pub Group Plc UKHospitality Ms Nicholls also said with the addition of the final of Eurovision on 13 May and the FA Cup final on 3 June, the four weeks was due to be an expensive one for the British public.ĭid you honour and celebrate this weekend? "There is a finite amount of spending money that people have so while you'll get an uplift on one or maybe two of them, it's unlikely you'll get it sustained across the whole of the month." However, having three bank holidays in May was testing for most household finances, especially during the current cost of living crisis, she added. The economic impact of bank holidays was significant, but it was also regional and weather-dependent, Ms Nicholls said. In total it could be worth an additional £350m worth of sales," she said.īusinesses in London fared best, she said, with hotel occupancy in the centre of the capital running at 95% on the Friday and Saturday nights. "We've seen higher levels of footfall than we would normally expect at this time of year as a result of the Coronation activities going on. The chief executive of trade group UK Hospitality, Kate Nicholls OBE said visitors were focused on London and the Coronation itself for the first half of the weekend, whereas the second half was about communities and a "more normal bank holiday".
He also said that the first bank holiday in May had been the chain's "best weekend we'd ever had" with an £800,000 turnover.Īccording to the Centre for Retail Research, about £200m was expected to be spent on food and drink alone over the Coronation weekend, with consumers adding more than £1.4bn in total to the UK economy. "Despite street parties we were 82% up on this time last year. "But Sunday was really, really strong," he added.
"Saturday was a washout - the weather was awful and that was reflected in very anaemic sales," said Clive Watson the group's executive chairman. The City Pub Group owns 43 pubs across the south of England and south Wales. Trade group UK Hospitality said it was a weekend of two halves. The City Pub Group said that after an "anaemic" Saturday, sales on Sunday had been "really, really strong".Įxtended pub opening hours had been expected to provide a £104m boost to the sector, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research. Sunday's warmer weather may have helped the hospitality industry to enjoy a bumper Coronation weekend, a pub chain has said.
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