Delivery and takeaway sales begin to stabilise as consumers return to on premise.

Kraft Heinz launches new Professional Mayonnaise

Kraft Heinz has launched Heinz new Professional Mayo for chefs.

Retaining its consistency during frying, grilling and baking, while providing the same great flavour for blending and chilling, Heinz all-new Professional Mayo is ideal for use in a range of recipes to suit pubs, restaurants and casual dining, say the company. Chefs can use Heinz Professional Mayo in coleslaws, sauces and sushi as well as comfort classics like fritters and pizza.

Asmita Singh, marketing lead, UK foodservice at Kraft Heinz said: “Mayonnaise can be a chef’s secret ingredient to enhance dishes behind the scenes, not just as a dipping sauce but as a highly versatile ingredient.

“We polled chefs to find out what they wanted from a mayonnaise, and used this insight to create one product to meet their needs - Heinz Professional Mayonnaise. Consistent food quality and operational simplicity are more important than ever. This new product delivers on delicious creamy flavour while providing much sought-after versatility across a variety of applications (and temperatures!).”

Heinz Professional Mayo is available in 5l and 10l pails, with a one-month shelf life from opening.

Delivery and takeaway sales growth begins to stabilise as consumers return to on premise

Despite restrictions on indoor service lifting following ‘freedom day’, deliveries and takeaways are set to maintain a significant share of restaurant and pub groups’ operations, the latest CGA & Slerp Hospitality at Home Tracker has revealed.

It shows sales in July were 206% higher than in July 2019—a drop on the growth in June (225%) and May (273%), following the return of indoor service in June and ‘freedom day’ in July. Although the lifting of all restrictions across hospitality has led to an increase in eating out, delivery has maintained its 20.5% share month-onmonth while takeaway sales (defined as being collected from an outlet by the customer, including Click & Collect and Drive-Thru) declined by 1.3%. This correlates with the significant growth in delivery sales compared to 2019, which in July was nearly three times higher than takeaways, say the researchers. In total, delivery and takeaways accounted for over a third of restaurant and pub groups’ sales in July.

“As consumers returned to eating and drinking out following restrictions lifting, growth has naturally begun to slow in delivery and takeaway sales. However, it’s clear that consumer behaviours have shifted and hospitality at home will remain an important consideration,” said Karl Chessell, CGA’s business unit director - hospitality operators and food, EMEA.

“Understanding the balance between out of home and at home preferences will be key to shaping sales and marketing strategies for all brands, as consumers continue to embrace the delivery and takeaway trend.”

“Hospitality at home remains key for our sector and it shows with online delivery market share remaining at 20.5%. With the multiple challenges facing the sector as it reopens, it is now needing more than ever a focused approach to delivery as an incremental business stream,” said JP Then, founder of Slerp.

“It’s exciting to see businesses starting to hire dedicated online ordering experts and create exclusive online offerings to continue to power growth. This is especially key for marketing to consumers during the upcoming seasonal period.”

The CGA & Slerp Hospitality at Home Tracker provides monthly reports on the value and volume of sales, with year-on-year comparisons and splits between food and drink revenue, offering a benchmark by which brands can measure their performance, and participants receive detailed data in return for their contributions.