Leisure property specialist Davis Coffer Lyons is joining forces with data and insight expert CGA to host a virtual conference on the future of property in the food and beverage market on April 29. Registration now open.

Britain’s managed pub, restaurant and bar sector saw collective like-for-like sales drop 57.6% in March as the country moved into lockdown, latest data from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker show.

Leisure property specialist Davis Coffer Lyons is joining forces with data and insight expert CGA to host a virtual conference on the future of property in the food and beverage market on April 29.

Like-for-like sales in Britain’s managed pub, bar and restaurant groups plummeted 71% in the week that the Government ordered all licensed premises to close down because of the COVID-19 crisis. Exclusive weekly figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker showed like-for-like trading in restaurant chains down 75%, with managed pubs down 67% and bars, which are more dependent on weekend business, tumbling 88%.