Food trends

Pub operator removes beef from menu after Amazon devastation

12-Sep-2019 By Stuart Stone

A publican in south London took mainstay meals such as beefburgers and steak off the menu last week in response to the destructive fires wreaking havoc on the Amazon rainforest.

Dinner time diners hardest to please, research claims

13-Aug-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Diners are hardest to please during the evening, compared to when they eat out of home for lunch or breakfast, according to research from an online reputation company.

National express: serving your pub’s food across the country

05-Aug-2019 By Nikkie Thatcher

Once you’ve mastered operating one food business, what’s to stop you sharing this across the country? We look at how to take your kitchen national without the need to buy a new premises.

Word on the street: working with street food vendors

14-Jul-2019 By Emily Hawkins

As the stigma of unsafe street food is replaced with the notion of amazing flavours and unexplored eating possibilities, here’s how you can make the most of what’s on offer.

More than a quarter of dinners out are at pubs

13-Jun-2019 By Stuart Stone

While an overall slide means pubs are becoming a slightly less popular option for an evening meal, they have increased their market share at breakfast according to findings from foodservice and hospitality research agency MCA Insight.

What is Britain’s favourite pub dish?

14-May-2019 By Stuart Stone

Almost one in five Brits have identified a Sunday roast as their favourite pub meal according to research by catering equipment supplier Nisbets.

What can pubs learn from the street food industry?

09-May-2019 By Stuart Stone

New Orleans-themed watering hole Bayou Bar is a product of founder Nick Willoughby’s experience across the street food and pub trades.

Greene King saves over 1,000 carveries in food waste initiative

20-Mar-2019 By Robert Mann

Greene King has become the first pub company to join forces with Too Good To Go – an app designed to help businesses reduce food waste.

Rise in ‘militant’ vegan activism may harm the cause

27-Feb-2019 By Robert Mann

The Vegan Society has slammed the actions of animal rights activist group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) after a spate of explicit demonstrations targeting businesses that sell meat.

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What has influenced the evolution of pub food?

20-Feb-2019 By Michelle Perrett

Food in pubs across Britain has always been a movable feast, basic in some locations, high-end in others. But one thing is for sure, it has never stood still and it continues to evolve today.

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Seeing stars: how pubs have grown to rival restaurants

20-Feb-2019 By Emma Eversham

How did pubs come to compete with restaurants in the food stakes, and what makes one deserving of an accolade so often associated with ‘fine-dining’ restaurants?

Fears grow over vegan protests

19-Feb-2019 By Robert Mann

In recent months, businesses have been subject to protests from vegan activists who have taken their war against the meat industry to extreme lengths.

Time to offer some vegan dishes?

11-Feb-2019 By Poppleston Allen

One continuing trend that kicked off 2019 is ‘Veganuary’, encouraging people to go vegan for January in aid of charity.

Why in 2019 we’ll see fewer people eating out, but more spend

23-Jan-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Punters will eat out on fewer occasions over the next two years, but will spend more money due to menu price increases and by having more dishes delivered.

‘Cut meat and dairy to save planet’, report claims

14-Jan-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

If Brits cut meat and dairy from their diets by turning vegan then up to 90m tonnes of carbon emissions could be eliminated from the 1bn of CO2 created in Britain every year.