Restaurant delivery sales surge 7.6% in October

In contrast, takeaway and click-and-collect orders fell 5.1%.

Restaurant delivery sales rose 7.6% year on year in October, continuing a long-term shift toward home delivery, according to CGA by NIQ’s latest Hospitality at Home Tracker.

This growth marks the strongest like-for-like increase of the year and provides a lift for managed restaurant groups following a difficult 2025 for dine-in trade.

The rise in delivery sales was double the UK’s inflation rate for October, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index.

In contrast, takeaway and click-and-collect orders fell 5.1% compared with October 2024, one of the steepest declines of the year, reflecting consumers’ ongoing preference for having food delivered.

Overall, combined delivery and takeaway sales were up 3.7% year on year. 

Including revenue from newly opened restaurants or those introducing delivery and takeaway for the first time, total sales increased 10.9%.

The tracker shows that deliveries accounted for 13.1p of every pound spent at restaurants in October—almost three times the share of takeaways and click-and-collect, which brought in 4.7p per pound.