Colliers | Latest Research on the Casual Dining Sector

The Covid-19 pandemic is expected to reduce casual dining spend in the UK by more than £20bn this year. This is triggering a fundamental restructuring of the sector and the property market which serves it. Operators have found themselves with overheads that are too high, margins which are too low and a target market which is nervous about a return to eating out on the scale which prevailed prior to the pandemic.

In our research paper – Can the UK find a new appetite for eating out? - we look at the sector’s trajectory prior to Lockdown and how it can begin to ‘right-size’ itself in the face of the new customer attitudes and economic realities brought by the pandemic.

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Ross Kirton

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London - West End

+44 20 7487 1615

Ross has specialised in the leisure, entertainment and F&B sectors for over 15 years. He has helped shape some of the UK’s most recognised leisure brands, the largest landlords and the sector’s most exciting newcomers.

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He is a Chartered Surveyor and past Chairman of the Restaurant Property Advisors Society.

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Nigel Ball

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