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Hospitality and catering businesses need to be ready to weather a challenging winter as higher operating costs and volatile food pricing have an impact, warns hospitality buying specialist Lynx Purchasing. “The pattern of Christmas trading is now clear for almost all operators,” says Rachel Dobson, managing director of Lynx Purchasing. “Menus are in place and

Concerns about the impact of the October Budget, as well as higher energy costs this winter, are likely to have an impact on fragile consumer confidence, warns hospitality buying specialist Lynx Purchasing. “The recent cut in interest rates, along with lower inflation, had offered a glimmer of hope to hospitality operators in terms of persuading

As cost pressures on hospitality operators continue, buying specialist Lynx Purchasing has launched a new, fully updated version of its pioneering GP Calculator App. Gross Profit, or GP, is the essential calculation which tells operators the menu price they need to charge for a dish, based on the ingredient costs. The original Lynx Purchasing GP

The UK’s wet and wild weather over recent months means hospitality and catering operators are likely to face sharp increases in the cost of key food and drink lines, warns buying specialist Lynx Purchasing. Many crops, ranging from potatoes, carrots and salad for summer menus to the wheat grown to make beer, have been delayed

Upheaval in the supply chain caused by ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as the impact of storms and freezing weather in the UK, threaten to reverse the benefits of the falling inflation rate, warns hospitality buying specialist Lynx Purchasing. As operators plan for the busy Easter weekend at the end