Hospitality loses three sites a day in tough first quarter of 2026.
Soaring costs for businesses and consumers led to a 0.3% drop in Britain’s number of licensed premises in the first quarter of 2026, the latest Hospitality Market Monitor reveals.
The report from NIQ, powered by CGA intelligence, shows there were 98,609 outlets at the end of March 2026—305 fewer than in December 2025, and an average of 3.4 net closures per day. It is a second successive quarter-on-quarter drop and suggests that momentum of closures in hospitality is starting to build.
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