The UK's biggest hotel and restaurant group said it is unconvinced over blossoming consumer confidence as sales growth at its Costa coffee chain slowed during the summer heatwave.
Whitbread, which also owns the Premier Inn hotel chain and Beefeater and Brewers Fayre pubs, said trading conditions were flat across the country as household budgets remain under intense pressure, with the exception of London where business is booming.
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