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Winning ways!

09-Apr-2024 By Ed Bedington

As the dust settles on the recent Publican Awards, the Lock In team caught up with some of the winners to find out what makes them tick.

Pubcos pick up top honours at MCA event

18-Mar-2024 By Gary Lloyd

Pub and bar groups including Albert’s Schloss, Loungers and Greene King enjoyed victory at the MCA Hospitality Awards last week (14 March).

Loungers opens 250th site

29-Jan-2024 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Loungers, an operator of bars, cafes and restaurants across the UK, has announced the opening of its 250th site.

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New Year, new opportunities?

08-Jan-2024 By Ed Bedington

The Lock In team take a look ahead to see what 2024 has in store, both the opportunities and the challenges and how you can embrace both.

Loungers to create 1,000 jobs, CFO to step down

28-Nov-2023 By Gary Lloyd

All-day café-bar-restaurant operator Loungers said it is on track to create 1,000 jobs through the opening of 34 UK sites by the end of 2023.

NLW rise could put many operators ‘over the edge’

22-Nov-2023 By Gary Lloyd

Sector bosses fear the Government announcement on a rise in the national living wage (NLW) could put many hospitality businesses “over the edge”.

Loungers opens four sites, roll-out plans on track

13-Nov-2023 By Gary Lloyd

Loungers boss Nick Collins has expressed his joy at opening four sites since mid-September and confirmed the company’s fast-track roll-out plans are on track.

Inside Loungers’ latest Brightside venue

08-Jun-2023 By Gary Lloyd

All-day café-bar and restaurant operator Loungers is launching its second Brightside roadside dining site today (8 June 2023).

Loungers lfl sales up 7.4%, opens 29 sites in FY23

25-Apr-2023 By Gary Lloyd

Loungers has reported like-for-like (lfl) sales are up 7.4% for its latest financial year including a hike of 11.8% in the second half (H2) of the period.

Loungers announces plans to open further 10 sites

15-Oct-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Multi-site operator Loungers is looking to expand its 181-strong estate by 10 venues in the current financial year, it has revealed.

Loungers’ pre-‘Freedom Day’ sales 23.7% up versus 2019 levels

22-Jul-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

According to its latest financial update, café bar operator Loungers revealed that sales across its estate of 175 venues were up by 23.7% in the nine weeks from 17 May to 18 July 2021 versus the same period in 2019.

Indoor reopening helps Loungers to 26.6% sales boost

17-Jun-2021 By Stuart Stone

Nationwide café bar operator Loungers has reported that like-for-like sales during the four weeks from Monday 17 May were up 26.6% versus to the same period in 2019.

Wetherspoon, Loungers, Oakman Group and Drake & Morgan join the BBPA

08-Mar-2021 By Stuart Stone

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has expanded its membership with the addition of JD Wetherspoon, Loungers, the Oakman Group and Drake & Morgan.

April outdoor opening ‘not economically feasible’

15-Feb-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

The rumoured reopening of hospitality venues for outdoor use only in April with indoor areas allowed from May has been slammed by the trade, alongside calls for the Government to be honest and open in its approach for a roadmap out of lockdown three.

MA500

How have operators expanded portfolios in the pandemic?

11-Feb-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Taking advantage of closure periods due to the coronavirus crisis is just one of the ways operators have managed to growth their estate, trade bosses have revealed.

Future planning focus for first 2021 MA500

02-Feb-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

The first MA500 conference of 2021 is set to take place this month (Thursday 11 February) when we will be looking to help operators gear up for the year ahead.

Alex Reilley: ‘The end of the moratoria will leave thousands of businesses horrifically exposed’

21-Jan-2021 By James McAllister, Restaurant

Loungers chairman and co-founder Alex Reilley expects the end of the lease forfeiture and debt enforcement moratoria in March will lead to a 'phenomenal glut' of company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) across hospitality.

Two thirds of operators predict three more months of closure, poll finds

15-Jan-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Some 66% of operators are not expecting to reopen their doors for customers to eat and drink on-site before April, an industry survey has revealed.

Pubs offer themselves up as vaccine hubs

04-Jan-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

A number of hospitality operators have put their venues forward as Covid vaccination hubs after it was revealed almost one in four people in England live somewhere with no vaccination centre.

Loungers posts profit despite lockdowns and Covid measures

02-Dec-2020 By Stuart Stone

The operator of 168 café bars under its Lounge and Cosy Club concepts managed to turn a profit in the 24 weeks to 4 October despite Covid-19 slashing its revenue by a third.

Loungers records 25.1% like-for-like sales growth

16-Oct-2020 By Stuart Stone

The operator of 168 café bars under its Lounge and Cosy Club brands revealed that estate-wide like-for-like sales increased by 25.1% over the 13 weeks to 4 October.

EOTHO boosts Loungers’ summer sales by a third

16-Sep-2020 By Stuart Stone

According to café-bar operator Loungers’ latest trading update, like-for-like sales grew by 29.9% between 4 July and 13 September largely as a result of the Government-backed Eat Out to Help Out discount scheme.

Loungers to fully reopen 165-site estate by 5 August

16-Jul-2020 By Stuart Stone

Café-bar operator Loungers plans to accelerate the reopening of its Lounge and Cosy Club sites off the back of positive post-lockdown trading.