All Research articles – Page 9
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Analysis & InsightA nation of snack-eaters
The snacking market in the UK has seen substantial growth in the past few years but remains a highly diverse and fragmented segment. MCA market insight director, Steve Gotham, looks at what the data tells about the snacking opportunities for operators.
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Analysis & InsightJellyfish, lab-grown meats and increasing vegetarianism predicted as future food trends
A quarter of the British population is likely to be vegetarian by 2025, a new report by Sainsbury’s has predicted.
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Analysis & InsightCalling all contemporizers – your industry needs you!
Some of the most established brands in the sector - including YO! and PizzaExpress – have been busy re-inventing themselves over the past year, as they update the look, feel and use of space in their restaurants. MCA market insight director, Steve Gotham, welcomes the approach and asks why more leading brands are not seeking to contemporize.
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Analysis & InsightEaster heatwave boosts pub lfls but hits restaurants hard
April showed mixed fortunes for the eating and drinking out sector as the warm weather at Easter boosted pub sales but hit restaurants hard.
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Analysis & InsightWhat we eat, how we shop and our changing out-of-home habits
Registered nutritionist Dr. Laura Wyness digs into the findings from the FSA’s Food and You survey for MCA’s sister title Food Spark, and explains what they reveal about the UK diet.
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Analysis & InsightWhitbread F&B – some extra meat on the restaurant bones
MCA market insight director Steve Gotham asks why Whitbread is so shy about discussing its substantial restaurant and pub portfolio. He delves into the available data to see what can be gleaned about Whitbread’s F&B brands and their resonance with consumers
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Analysis & InsightDelivery platforms 'could charge restaurants for higher visibility'
Delivery platforms could turn to bid-based systems where restaurants pay to be found in searches, in order to achieve profitability, a former Uber Eats data scientist has suggested.
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Analysis & InsightBurger battleground in Covent Garden
MCA market insight director Steve Gotham examines the fierce competition for the patty pound in one of London’s busiest markets and asks whether Covent Garden can be viewed as a microcosm of the wider market.
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Analysis & InsightQ&A to Z
In the first of a new series of columns, Generation Z expert, Chloe Combi, answers questions posed by MCA readers about how to best connect with young consumers. In her first article, Chloe discusses Gen Z’s attitudes towards promotions, co-working spaces and transgender toilets.
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Analysis & Insight
Stadiums missing out on F&B spend
Football stadiums are missing out on an opportunity for an enhanced food and drink offer, with match-day spend in the UK lower than other Western nations, a report by Oracle has found.
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NewsCoffee out of home worth £3.2bn
Out-of-home coffee is worth £3.2bn, and has grown 6% year on year for the past five years, a study by the British Coffee Association (BCA) and Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) reveals.
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Analysis & InsightNPS – A taster menu of brand winners, losers and risers
MCA market insight director Steve Gotham gives an overview of the eating out sector through the prism of Net Promoter Scores, revealing the brands who are truly winning with customers and those still in need of improvement.
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Analysis & InsightWallet winners have the Woo Factor
Fierce competition in the eating out market coupled with the increasing promiscuity of consumers has meant that operators are having to fight harder than ever to make their offer standout. MCA market insight director, Steve Gotham, examines which brands have proved most effective at wooing hard-to-get customers.
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Analysis & InsightAlcoholic drinks market has growth potential worth billions
Spiders and speers are just some of the innovations being seen in the alcoholic drinks sector, which has the potential to grow by £5.2bn over the next three years, according to Diageo.
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OpinionGotham’s Easter quiz
With the Easter bank holiday weekend almost upon us, MCA’s market insight director Steve Gotham offers up a bit of a light-hearted break from the norm with a test of your knowledge of the eating and drinking out market.
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Analysis & InsightWhat customers really want
Any intelligent operator knows the value of constructive customer feedback. Yet finding a balance between British face-to-face politeness of, and moanerati online culture can be challenging amid a deluge of data. MCA’s Finn Scott-Delany seeks advice from experts at MCA Insight/HIM, Yumpingo, and Supersonic Inc.
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Analysis & Insight
Food delivery grows 19% in 2018
Food delivery grew 19% year-on-year in 2018, while average spend per order is rising, according to research from Cardlytics.
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Analysis & InsightPopularity of decaf coffee seeing a boost
More than a million people have switched to drinking decaffeinated coffee over the past 12 months, according to research agency Mintel.
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Analysis & InsightSector back on “even keel”, with lfls up 3.5%
Managed pubs and restaurants saw collective like-for-like (lfls) sales up 3.5% on March last year, suggesting putting the market back on “an even keel”, according to the latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker.