London’s pubs and restaurants experienced a drop in trade following the terrorist attacks in Paris, the sales monitor for the sector, the Coffer Peach Business tracker, revealed.
The report showed like-for-like sales fell 1.5%. Restaurants within the M25 recorded a 2.6% on-year fall in sales, while pubs within the same area saw sales fall 0.8%. Elsewhere in the country, sales edged 0.3% higher, which combined with the figures for the London area resulted in an overall 0.2% fall.
Sales had risen by 2.5% nationally in October, and by 3.5% in London.
The Daily Telegraph, p. 4
