Sunday 21 December 2014

The Restaurant Industry


In my previous blog posts I believe I have explained what fine-dining is and how it is different from casual dining in terms of the hospitality and restaurant industry. Now I want to use this blog entry to try and explain the restaurant industry in the UK in more detail and the type of restaurant that I believe is the current market leader of this industry.

In the UK the restaurant industry as a whole is worth over £40 billion. In my opinion this is because of the fact that This industry is incredibly diverse. There are many different types of restaurant ranging from high-end Fine Dining Restaurants such as Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck, to relatively cheap fast food service chains such as McDonald’s. It is relatively easy to classify restaurants by type of service they provide such as fine dining or casual dining etc. or by the food type or specialty they serve such as Chinese, European etc. De Angelis (2013)

Its obvious just from walking down your local high street what type of restaurants are doing well in the economy of the modern day. I say this as everywhere you look there's bound to be some kind of fast food chain outlet. This is a good example of a positive sign for the company providing evidence that their company is doing well. However London and other large cities have recently been the site of many fine-dining restaurants including Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver's respective restaurants. De Angelis (2013)

After researching the industry I have found that the fast food industry is the most successful of all the chain restaurant sectors. This is obvious from the fact that in the top ten chain restaurants of 2011 fast food restaurants account for over half of the ranks and McDonald's are at number one. These top ten restaurant chains also account for 52.3% of the top 100 U.K chains. In my opinion These figures prove that the fast food industry is the market leader in the restaurant and hospitality industry in the UK as a whole. De Angelis (2013)


References

Alex De Angelis,(Thursday Oct, 31,2013), Companiesandmarkets.com,




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