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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

September 2021

Welcome to the September edition of Bord Bia's Ireland Market Foodservice Newsletter.   This week’s Government announcement in relation to further reopening of the economy was met with a cautious welcome from the main hospitality industry representatives, many of them

General Industry News

General Industry News Unemployment hits pandemic low of 12.4% as economy begins to rebound The Irish Times – 01.09.21 The State’s Covid-adjusted unemployment rate fell to 12.4 per cent in August, its lowest level since the start of the pandemic, as the phased reopening of

Casual Dining and Contract Catering Sector

Casual Dining & Contract Catering Sector Deliveroo reported a 99 per cent increase in gross transaction value The Irish Times – 09.07.2021 Deliveroo has revealed bumper sales in the past three months, which are set to be higher than first thought. The company said the gross

General Industry News

General Industry News Customers enjoy welcome return to indoor hospitality RTE – 26.07.21 Monday, 26 July saw the resumption of indoor hospitality for the first time since last December. Some of the so-called wet pubs, which do not serve food, also opened their doors for

July 2021

Welcome to the July edition of Bord Bia's Ireland Market Foodservice Newsletter.    Discussions are currently ongoing between hospitality industry representatives and Government in an effort to finalise an agreed plan and set a new date for the resumption of indoor dining. 

Hotel & Restaurant Sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector  Up to 40,000 weddings expected next year due to backlog from pandemic  Business Post – 13.06.2021  Up to 40,000 happy couples could get married next year, twice as many as would normally be the case in a typical pre-pandemic year. According to an

Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) & Pub Sector

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) & Pub Sector  Apache Pizza to open 20 new Irish stores as takeaway business booms  Business Post – 02.06.2021  Apache Pizza said it planned to create 300 new jobs across Ireland in the next six months as it opens 20 new stores. The expansion