2025 key food and drinks trends revealed
Foodservice provider Bidfood has unveiled the food and drink trends expected to dominate menus throughout 2025.
Trends & Analysis
Birra Moretti ousts Carling as best-selling draught lager
Heineken UK is celebrating after CGA statistics showed its Italian lager Birra Moretti has overtaken Carling to become the best-selling draught lager in the UK.
THE LOW & NO PROJECT
Low & no alcohol beer sales continue to grow
While the low and no-alcohol beer category takes up a smaller percentage of the on-trade market, it is the fastest growing sector in both volume and value sales.
BEER REPORT 2024
Experts give comment for the Beer Report 2024
If you want to know the beer trends to follow, the prices of the best-selling beers across Great Britain and how experts are seeing the future of the beer market for the on-trade – look no further.
Beer trends to make 2024 a 'positive year'
Beer sales by value are outpacing sales by volume but pubs are driving growth for the category, with key trends set to make 2024 a “positive year for beer” in the on-trade.
Drinks list 2023
Strongbow retains title of best-selling cider
The UK’s most popular cider is Strongbow once again, the latest data for The Morning Advertiser’s Drinks List 2023 has revealed.
DRINKS LIST 2023
Gordons most sold gin brand in 2022
The top two best-selling gins in the on-trade have remained unchanged over the past 12 months.
DRINKS LIST 2023
Jack Rabbit Pinot Grigio still most sold wine
The best-selling wine in the on-trade has remained unchanged over the past 12-months, the Drinks List 2023 has revealed.
Pepperoni crowned Brits' fav topping for National Pizza Day
Take your pizza offering to new heights with meat toppings as pepperoni, donner pizza and meat feast all score a place in Brits’ top five types of pizza.
23% of pub trips involve burgers
Almost a quarter (23.15%) of times people ate out at pubs from November 2020 to January 2022 included burgers, data from Lumina Intelligence Eating and Drinking Out Panel has revealed.
British cuisine and sustainability top food and drink trends for 2022
Ethical consumption, British ingredients and health have been tipped as the top trends for eating and drinks into 2022.
CBD alcohol dying fad despite ‘anti-anxiety’ benefits
Cannabidiol (CBD)-infused alcohol is a dying craze unlikely to resurface due to the hesitation of larger companies and distrust of customers, said bar operators.
Cider still a ‘relatively underdeveloped’ category
Fruit cider flooding the UK on-trade just after the turn of the century saw sweet serves drench both bar tops and fridges – where they remain ubiquitous. The Morning Advertiser (MA) asks ‘have we hit peak cider?’
MA Leaders Club
Customer confidence slowly increasing as restriction lift
Consumer optimism around the pub sector is increasing as lockdown begins to ease, a leading data expert has revealed.
In association with Fentimans
Key drink trends for summer 2021: Premium pours, gin growth and independent brands
With the help of experts from across the on-trade, The Morning Advertiser and premium drinks brand Fentimans have poured over a handful of trends worth watching as the parched public return to pubs and bars.
The Lock In Podcast
The Lock In Podcast: Fingers on the pulse...
As the industry starts to reopen, the Lock In team take a sideways look to see what trends are starting to emerge in food, drink, operations and consumer behaviour. The achingly hip Heath Ball and his sidekick James Cuthbertson share their insights into...
Ripe for reopening: which cider trends will help operators pick a winning summer offer?
As British Summer Time begins, The Morning Advertiser cuts to the core of the cider category before the nation’s sweet tooth and beer garden weather strike back against Covid with a vengeance.
The Lock In Podcast
The Lock In Podcast: Food glorious food!
With food the focus under the new government restrictions for pubs, the Lock In podcast team talk about how you can create a food offer during the crisis, what makes good, and bad, pub food, the practicalities of a food offer and debate what substantial...
The Drinks List
Camden Hells pips Punk IPA as craft best seller amid £100m category hit
The overall value of the ten best-selling craft beers in the UK on-trade plummeted by £105.8m in the past 12 months – with 130,742 hectolitres, or around 23m pints, fewer poured.
The Drinks List
The Drinks List – Top Brands to Stock in 2021
Despite being closed for four months, facing strict curfews, tier systems and enduring a second national lockdown, drinks sales in the on-trade were strong when the sector was open.
Women drive pub visit growth
New insight shows that pub visits by men declined by 0.8% in 2019, but there was a 1.6% increase in female customers, who now account for 48.7% of all pub customers.
Pressure on PCA ramps up after select committee letter
Pressure on the office of the pubs code adjudicator (PCA) to account for its performance increased earlier this month following a letter from MP Rachel Reeves, who chairs the Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) select committee.
The Cask Report 2018
Cask ale drinkers spend more in pubs than other customers
Cask drinkers spend more than £1,000 a year in pubs, 30% more than other drinkers, according to a new report.
The Cask Report 2018
Consumers willing to pay more for quality cask beer
Four in five customers (81%) would be willing to pay up to 20% more for a quality pint of real ale, according to The Cask Report 2018.
Generation Z ‘too awkward for pubs’
The next generation suffers from an obsession with social media and a limited desire to drink, which puts visiting the pub almost to the bottom of the list of where they want to spend their time.
Will licensee optimism continue to rise?
In the Pub Market Report conducted by MCA Insight and the MA last year, the key finding was that licensees were increasingly positive about trading.
Property
Five out of every six pubs sold in 2016 remained as pubs
Christie & Co has reported that 83% of pubs sold in 2016 remained as pubs – with only 6% being converted into houses.
Technology
What new technology are we going to start seeing in pubs?
Last month saw the ninth anniversary of the iPhone, the game-changer that transformed the humble mobile phone into a family photo album, record collection, video library, shopping mall, game centre and mind-blowing universal information resource.
Research
Take our Pub Market Report survey and win tickets to Great British Pub Awards
The Publican’s Morning Advertiser (PMA) has teamed up with sister title MCA to quiz readers on the challenges and opportunities facing the pub sector for its annual Pub Market Report.
Dramatic decline in young people going for pub drink
The number of people heading down to the pub for an evening drink has fallen dramatically according to a new survey, with those aged 18-34 the most likely to entertain at home rather than at a pub, bar or restaurant.
Operator news
M&B launches Sizzling Pizza, Pub & Carvery
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is to launch a new concept this week which will be a combined and evolved version of its Crown Carveries and Sizzling Pub formats called Sizzling Pizza, Pub & Carvery, M&C Report has learnt.
Pete Brown on the Cask Report
Working in beer often feels like living in a busy, hyperactive bubble - less so now that beer is finally enjoying the mainstream media attention it deserves.
Young's to rebrand managed estate and beers
Young & Co’s Brewery will rebrand its Young's managed estate of 125 pubs over the next 24 months, as well as the range of ales it licenses to Charles Wells.
Pub Market Report: Rising costs depress pub profits
Pubs are struggling to convert sales growth into profit growth due to rising costs, according to the latest Pub Market Report survey from the PMA.
Sales for show, profit for dough
Another week, another survey highlighting the problems being faced by pub licensees. This one happens to be our own, commissioned for our Pub Market Report among a cross-section of the PMA’s readership.
Yellowhammer Bars cuts estate to 17 sites
Yellowhammer Bars, which is run by Volante Management, has undergone a strategic review that has seen its late-night venue estate cut to 17 sites.
WaverleyTBS falls into administration
Deloitte has been confirmed as administrators for independent drinks supplier WaverleyTBS.
Cask Report 2012: Cask ale volumes grow for first time in 20 years
Cask ale volumes grew in 2011 for the first time in 20 years, and the category has now overtaken keg as the most popular form of draught ale, according to the Cask Report 2012-13, published today.
Pub property market "bottoming out" with wet-led businesses moving towards more “stabilised level of trade"
The pub property market appears to be bottoming out with wet-led businesses moving towards a more “stabilised level of trade”, according to agent Jones Lang LaSalle.
Charterhouse Leisure nets £2m funding to expand Coal Grill & Bar brand
Charterhouse Leisure has secured £2m in new funding as it looks to further expand and refresh its Coal Grill & Bar brand, M&C Report understands.
Publicans demonstrate the power of positive thinking
The PMA’s annual Pub Market Report highlights some promising trends. Respondents to the survey cited increasingly flexible tenancy/lease contracts as one reason to be cheerful, alongside opportunities from events and occasions, food sales and hot beverages.
BBPA defends pubcos to MPs
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has written to every MP to refute claims from the Business, Innovation & Skills Committee (BISC) that the beer tie is causing pubs to close.
BISC report: conclusions outlined
Here are the conclusions and recommendations from today’s damning report on pubcos from the Business, Innovation & Skills Committee (BISC):
JDW reports slowdown in like-for-like sales
JD Wetherspoon (JDW), the managed pub operator, has reported a slowdown in like-for-like sales over the 11 weeks to 10 July.
Justice for Licensees to conduct pubco survey
Campaign group Justice for Licensees (JFL) is to survey present and former tenants about their views on pubcos and the tie.
Hamish Champ: Brulines - yer pays yer money, yer takes yer choice
Last week's announcement by Brulines that the results of a series of tests conducted by the National Measurement Office (NMO) on its technology...
Key speaker confirmed for Olympics industry event
The Mayor of London's key man for the 2012 Olympic Games is to speak at a forthcoming event hosted by M&C Report and the Morning Advertiser.
RICS upbeat on pub costs surveys
The pub sector will soon have "good quality information" on running costs, which are used to set rents, for the first time - so says RICS.
BrewDog: Keg is the future
The boss of controversial Scottish brewer BrewDog has hit out at cask ale for failing to attract younger drinkers - declaring keg ale the "future" of...
Cask growth continues in declining beer market
Despite declining total beer sales and continuing pub closures, cask ale last year outperformed the beer market, increased its share of on-trade beer...