The S4labour Blog
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Training in 2021
Training in 2021 It's been a strange year for everyone, particularly a lot of us in hospitality and every area of our businesses have been turned upside down by Covid. As we start to see some light at the end of the tunnel I thought it would be useful to share some...
Hospitality suffers 540,000 jobs in 2020
Hospitality Suffers 540,000 job losses in 2020 and is on the verge of losing a significant amount more.There are many industries that have suffered throughout 2020, but hospitality has been near uniquely placed at the forefront of every conceivable damage the pandemic...
The True Cost of Furlough
Furlough costs the UK Hospitality industry in excess of £542 million a month during lockdown - The True Cost of Furlough Furlough has been a lifeline for so many businesses in the hospitality sector and beyond, however despite all that the scheme has done to ease the...
2020 Full Hospitality Sales Report
2020 saw revenue decline of 51.38% overall, characterised mainly by a 98.3% decline in Q2 driven by lockdown 1. In the first two months of the year, prior to the effects of the pandemic, revenue growth was 6.6%. As pubs and restaurants opened up on the 4th July,...
A heavy decline in sales, and a 50% discount for S4labour customers for January.
Following a heavy decline in sales, S4labour writes to all customers promising 50% discount in wake of new low point for the industry. Analysis from S4labour shows that total hospitality industry sales were down 73.7% on last year for December. Food was down 63.7%,...
Christmas takings in pubs, bars and restaurants fall almost 80%
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/28/christmas-takings-in-pubs-bars-and-restaurants-fall-almost-80 Analysis from S4labour shows that total hospitality industry sales were 79.4% down on last year from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day. Drink was down 84.2% and...
Dec 2020 sales to date
Analysis from S4labour shows that sales are down 64.3% year on year for Tier 2 venues, for December to date. As a result of the restrictions places on hospitality, food is down 55.3% and drink is down a significant 72.5%. Given that Tier 1 is a tiny percentage of the...
Tenzo & S4labour – covid sales effect
Joint Research Between S4labour and Tenzo identifies 98% rise in takeaway sales, but has little impact on overall decline of hospitality like for likes. 15.12.2020 Joint research from hospitality software providers S4labour and Tenzo the...
Sales by Tier, coming out of lockdown 2.0
Tiers 1,2 and 3 down 30%, 39.2% and 77.8% respectively. Analysis from S4labour shows that sales in Tier 1, 2 ad 3 venues are down 30%, 39.2% and 77.8% respectively year on year. As we expected, the tougher lockdown restrictions have been disastrous for the sector,...
The Future of Hospitality
The future of hospitality – we are part of the solution and not the problem by Alastair Scott I am surprised the quote from Mark Twain of: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics” has not been used more over the past nine months during the...
Hospitality industry loses 94% of sales over lockdown
Hospitality industry loses 94% of sales over lockdown Analysis from S4labour shows that through lockdown 2.0, hospitality sales in sites that were trading in England were 80% down on pre lockdown levels and 96.5% down year on year. It should be noted that on top of...
December sales forecast
S4labour downgrades hospitality sales forecast in December to -45% in wake of toughened tier restrictions. S4labour have undertaken research to help operators forecast sales as lockdown 2.0 comes to an end and England and returns to the tiered system. Originally the...