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Casual Dining and Contract Catering Sector

Casual Dining & Contract Catering Sector Freshly Chopped signs 120-site partnership deal Propel – 06.01.2022 Dublin-based, healthy fast-food brand Freshly Chopped plans to open 120 new sites across Europe over the next five years after agreeing a new partnership deal with

Hotel and Restaurant Sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector Hatch & Sons Announces Venue Closures Hospitality Ireland – 10.01.2022 Hatch & Sons has announced the closure of its venues in Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery and beneath the Little Museum of Dublin. Hatch & Sons stated on its website, “We are so

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) & Pub Sector

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) & Pub Sector Irish Domino's Pizza firm pays €8m dividend Independent.ie – 31.12.2021 A company controlled by a Northern Ireland family that operates about 30 Domino’s Pizza outlets across the island paid an €8m dividend to its shareholders

General Industry News

General Industry News Irish consumer sentiment reached its lowest level since February Business Post – 23.12.2021 Irish consumer sentiment reached its lowest level since February in December, due to concerns over the spread of Covid-19 as well as fears over the rising cost

Casual Dining and Contract Catering Sector

Casual Dining & Contract Catering Sector   Musgrave MarketPlace and Circle K enter new five-year partnership ShelfLife.ie – 23.11.2021 Musgrave MarketPlace and Circle K have signed a new five-year strategic partnership. Under the terms of the partnership, Musgrave

Hotel and Restaurant Sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector   Christmas cancellations cost hotels €90m in revenue RTÉ Business – 24.11.2021 Hoteliers are reporting over €90m in lost revenues as a result of many companies cancelling events and social gatherings, according to new research by the Irish Hotels

QSR and Pub Sector

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) & Pub Sector   Supermac’s sees 25% drop in revenue amid ‘hammering’ in city centres The Irish Times – 23.11.2021 The Supermac’s group saw a 25 per cent drop in its revenue last year with its city-centre outlets most impacted by the Covid-19

November 2021

  Welcome to the November edition of Bord Bia's Ireland Market Foodservice Newsletter. A reminder that our 2021 Irish Foodservice Seminar is taking place in the RDS Dublin on Wednesday, December 8th 2021 from 10AM – 3PM. The final agenda and speaker line up has been

Hotel and Restaurant Sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector   Passenger numbers may not fully recover until 2025, daa says RTE – 20.10.2021 It could be 2025 before the number of passengers using Dublin and Cork airports is back to pre-pandemic levels, the chairman designate of the daa has said. Speaking at

QSR and pub sector

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) & Pub Sector   McDonald's sets target of reaching net zero by 2050 RTE - 04.10.2021 Fast food giant McDonald's has set a target of having net zero emissions by 2050.However, the company's operations in the UK and Ireland aim to achieve the

General Industry News

General Industry News   Inflation to breach 5pc for first time since the boom years Irish Independent - 29.10.2021 Annual inflation is set to breach the 5pc mark in Ireland in October, for the first time in two decades. According to a flash estimate from the EU’s statistics

Casual dining and contract catering sector

Casual Dining & Contract Catering Sector   Office rentals rise sharply as Covid restrictions ease Irish Times – 07.10.2021 The take-up of office space in Dublin rose sharply in the third quarter of the year as the loosening Covid-19 restrictions turned attention to the

Hotel and restaurant sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector   Restaurants in suburbs and staycation destinations recovering more strongly than those in Dublin City, according to new data Hospitality Ireland – 07.09.2021 Food businesses in the suburbs and staycation destinations are recovering much more

Quick service restaurant (QSR) and pub sector

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) & Pub Sector   Dominos plans recruitment drive in UK and Ireland Irish Times - 14.10.2021 Pizza giant Domino’s has said it plans to hire more than 8,000 drivers across the UK and Ireland as part of preparations for the busy Christmas period.

General Industry News

General Industry News   Hospitality groups express disappointment at ending of reduced VAT rate next August www.thejournal.ie – 12.10.2021 Lobby groups representing the hospitality industry have expressed disappointment that the reduced VAT rate for the sector will end next