Hospitality: the costs that reach cafés, restaurants, pubs and hotels

The input costs the engine links to hospitality, what it is seeing now, and how its calls have scored.

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This page covers cafés, restaurants, pubs, takeaways, caterers and hotels: UK SIC 2007 divisions 55 (accommodation) and 56 (food and beverage service activities). Source: Office for National Statistics: UK Standard Industrial Classification of economic activities (UK SIC 2007).

Inputs the engine links to hospitality

The engine records which lines of business consume each input it tracks, by UK SIC code. These are the inputs it links to the SIC codes in this industry. It is an industry-level inference, not a claim about any one business.

Coffee beans (SIC 56102, 56103, 56302, 55100)
Milk & dairy (SIC 56101, 56102)
Food ingredients (SIC 56101, 56102, 56290)

Costs most businesses share

These apply to any business that uses power, employs staff or borrows:

Energy costs: the electricity and gas a business buys to run its premises, machinery, heating and refrigeration
Wage costs: pay and the costs that come with it: minimum and living wage rates, employer taxes on pay, and market pay growth
Interest rates and borrowing costs: what a business pays to borrow: overdrafts, loans, asset finance and the central-bank rates they are priced from

What the engine is tracking now

On hospitality inputs

2026-09-29 Caffeine clash: Starbucks slayer now brews a global coffee blend US

On the costs most businesses share

2026-10-07 Ex-Barclays traders jailed for rigging interest rates have convictions quashed UK
2026-10-06 CalPERS mulls expansion of private credit exposure to energy transition UK
2026-10-05 Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Isabella Bank Corporation US
2026-10-01 SINTANA ENERGY INC.: PEL90 Participating Interest Exchange with Chevron UK
2026-09-29 Shell backs $23 billion LNG Canada expansion in boost to Carney's ‘energy superpower’ push - CNBC US
2026-09-28 'Take or pay': AI companies are taking a risky page from the energy sector's playbook - CNBC US

How the engine's calls on these inputs have scored

Every cost call is dated when it is published and graded against a published benchmark series once its period ends. No hit rate is shown for fewer than 30 graded calls. How calls are graded.

Coffee beans: Not enough graded calls yet: 0 graded so far, 2 pending.
Milk & dairy: Not enough graded calls yet: 0 graded so far, 1 pending.
Food ingredients: Not enough graded calls yet: 0 graded so far, 8 pending.

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