Confident consumers keen to eat out in December
Consumers are eager to eat out again and most feel confident about doing so, CGA’s consumer research shows as England prepares to exit lockdown.
Delivery flourishes again in lockdown
More than half of consumers in England ordered food for delivery in the first week of the country’s second lockdown, CGA’s consumer research shows.
Why alcohol could be the next big boost for delivery
As CGA research reveals rising take-up of alcoholic drinks deliveries, England’s second national lockdown brings a big opportunity to turn newly interested consumers into regular buyers.
Lockdown opportunities: Six things to know about delivery
Consumers’ ever-growing demand for delivery is set to provide vital sales for many operators over the four-week lockdown in England.
The return of the cocktail cabinet
Drinking-in is now the norm in lockdown Britain, with the public increasingly looking to replicate the pub and bar experience in their kitchens and front rooms. New research from CGA shows that this is leading to significantly more people making cocktails and mixed drinks at home.The cocktail boom has been one of the on-trade’s success stories of recent years, with a 10% increase in sales value in 2019 alone. Over 10 million regularly drink cocktails when out, a habit now moving to the domestic environment.
Take-out and delivery: one bright spot in a devastated US market
The US restaurant industry has now lost two-thirds of its workforce, more than eight million employees, as a result of COVID-19 closures, according to latest data from the National Restaurant Association.It reported that more than 60% of restaurant owners believed that existing federal relief programs would not enable them to keep their teams on payroll during the downturn. It said that nationally restaurants had lost $30 billion in March, and were on track to lose $50 billion in April, and estimated that COVID-19-related loss would be more than $240 billion by the end of the year.
Take-out and delivery aiding US restaurant survival
US restaurants that have managed to stay open during the COVID-19 crisis are seeing sales stabilise, if at a fraction of normal levels, thanks to developing their take-out and delivery capabilities.
Delivery in need of a new direction?
Britain’s appetite for hot food delivery may have peaked, according to new research from CGA. While third of consumers said they had ordered delivered restaurant or takeaway food during lockdown, with another 11% planning to, the results suggest there has been no change in demand since pubs and restaurants were closed down.
Britain sees the opportunity for more delivered food and drink
With Britain in lock-down, hot food delivery services from restaurants and takeaways are set to have an increasingly important role in keeping the nation fed. The public’s appetite for delivered food has been growing. In the week prior to yesterday’s Prime Ministerial order for the public to say at home, research from CGA showed that just over half (53%) of the public are either currently using, or planning to use, delivery as an alternative during the current crisis, with 13% getting delivery from a restaurant or takeaway either for the first time, or more often than usual, in the last two weeks.