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Pubs and restaurants report June sales boost
Monthly like-for-like sales across some of the UK's leading pub and restaurant chains returned to growth in June, according to the latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker.
Sunny weather conditions, half-term holidays and the football World Cup helped increase like-for-like sales by 1.4 per cent during June, when compared with the same period last year. Total sales, which include new openings, increased by 2.7 per cent on June 2009 across the companies that are included in the tracker, such as Mitchells and Butlers, Whitbread and Tragus.
Peter Martin of Peach Factory said: "While pubs in general saw an upside, restaurants generally suffered sales drops. Big sporting events and the weather, as ever, are a mixed blessing. "Like-for-like figures have been up-and-down since the start of the year, and although the particular circumstances at play this last month makes it difficult to draw too many conclusions, June's results fall into that same pattern indicating that overall trading is essentially flat against 2009, and remains tough."