The S4labour Blog
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Sunny Late Spring Bank Holiday Drives 63% Increase In Like For Like Sales
As The U.K. recorded it’s hottest May Bank holiday last weekend, hospitality experienced a significant 63% jump in like for like sales, comparing the Saturday to Monday with the same Bank holiday weekend in 2019. The breakdown of the figures saw an increase...
Indoor Re-Opening Sales Figures
Hospitality like-for-likes sales UP 9% on indoor re-opening week. In the first full week since operators were able to serve guests indoors since November 2020, hospitality sales were up 9% compared to the same week in 2019. However, these figures paint a picture of...
Hospitality Indoor Reopening Sales Figures – Day 1
Hospitality sales down over 10% on first day of indoor trading. Sales from Monday, the first day operators were allowed to serve guests inside, were down 10.3%. The research undertaken by S4labour, analysed hospitality sales from Monday, comparing them with the same...
Re-Opening Sales Figures – Week 4
Hospitality sales continue to tumble, DOWN 23% week on week. Hospitality sales continued their decline last week, sliding 23% compared to the previous week. While roughly half of sites remain closed, those that did trade saw like for likes down 15% compared to the...
Re-Opening Sales Figures – Week 3
Hospitality week on week sales down 1.2%. According to analysis from S4labour, last week’s hospitality sales were down 1.2% on the previous week. However, the decline was driven from weak performance in London, where week on week sales slipped 9.1%. Sites outside the...
Re-opening Sales Figures – Week 2
Hospitality Like-for-likes down 10.5%, with 70% of sites trading at similar or above 2019 levels. According to analysis of more than 150 organisations that use S4labour’s workforce management software, there is little change in the number of sites that were able to...
Hospitality Re-Opening Week Sales Figures
Hospitality like-for-like sales up 9.1% but 45% of sites remain closed resulting in total sales decline of 25%. According to an analysis of more than 150 organisations that use S4labour’s workforce management software, sites that were open during the first week of a...
9 Things To Know About The New Tax Year
Personal Tax Allowance change from £12,500 to £12,570; basic rate 20% bandwidth £1 to £37,700. New employees on RTI submission before 2nd March 2021 are eligible for furlough from 1st May 2021. From 1st July 2021 you will need to pay 10% (or 1 eighth) of the 80%...
April Re-Opening Forecast
Hospitality industry forecasts 70% of normal revenue to return when outdoor service resumes on the 12th of April.
Covid Hits Hospitality Sales for £89 billion
As the grim anniversary of the beginning of the first lockdown approaches, analysis from S4labour shows that the hospitality industry lost just over £89 billion in revenue through the full year since March 23rd 2020, when the hospitality industry was first instructed to close. This is equivalent to 68.9% of annual revenue, representing an average decline of half a £million per site across the U.K.
Important changes to NLW and NMW
Important changes to NLW and NMW National living wage increases have become a metronomic feature of the financial year, and while this year's increase is nothing untypical, both Furlough arrangements and the changes in age brackets mean that the rate increase is more...
Re-Opening Resources
As hospitality slowly reopens, we have created some helpful resources to ensure you are ready for a high intensity return to amazing hospitality.