Many of us will look back on 2020 as the year that fundamentally changed the hospitality industry. From monitoring the health of our employees, team members wearing PPE, to constantly changing rotas to accommodate consumer demand, the pandemic has certainly changed the way we operate and our traditional measures of success.

The data revealed that August began to show encouraging signs of recovery across the industry, largely driven by the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out (EOTHO) scheme, the warm weather, and the fact that people began to feel more comfortable and confident to start venturing out again.

With safety and cleanliness at the forefront of everyone’s mind, and recent researching suggesting that enhanced cleaning standards will cost the hotel industry around £7 Billion, it is having a significant impact on everyone’s operational and labour costs.

We all know legislation is tightening around allergen labelling and calorie counts, but this isn’t the only reason hospitality businesses should seize the opportunity to get on top of this vital data. Increasingly, customers want to know what’s in the food they eat in restaurants and take away.