At our sell-out Insight conference on 4 April, CGA’s business unit director for food and retail Karl Chessell took delegates on a whistlestop tour of the changing landscape of eating and drinking out in Britain. From cityscapes to market towns, hotspots for new openings and sales growth, to black-spots for closures, and the spread of changing customer types, tastes and habits – Karl shared key numbers behind trends that every retailer should know: