Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does The Good Eating Company Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 03893038 · Accommodation & food · 7 statutory reports on record · period to 28 Feb 2025

24days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 28 Feb 2025 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 13 Dec 1999
Registered office: ONE, LONDON, WC1B 5HA

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 May 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 0–60 days. Reported average: 24.

Stated terms0–60d

+24 days

Reported avg24d

At a glance

The key figures

0–60d

their stated terms

invoices paid outside terms

±1d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Faster than 72% of the 148 large companies reporting in accommodation & food.

The pattern

Holding steady

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

H1 2022H1 2023H1 2023H1 2024H1 2024H1 2025

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 80% 31–60 days 18% 61+ days 2%

The read · computed from their figures

The Good Eating Company Limited has filed 7 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2022). Their latest report puts the average at 24 days against stated terms of 0–60 days.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±1 days period to period.

In the latest period 2% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 2% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

Payment code: Fair Payment Code Silver Tier Offers e-invoicing Offers supply-chain finance

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

A process is in place for onboarding new suppliers whereby SMEs are identified and put on 30 days payment terms and all other suppliers are on 60 days payment terms

Dispute resolution

Supplier payment issues that arise in the first instance are addressed by a dedicated Accounts Payable queries team within the Financial Shared Services centre. Depending on the issue, the Procurement team may be involved to resolve any disputes or issues. The company ensures that the payment of its vendors and handling of queries has a high priority and has SLAs on response times. Over the last number of years we have invested in tools and technology to assist our vendor from our Shared Service Centre with OCR and supply management by providing alternative finance and ease of payment solutions.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2025	24	2%	2%	27 Mar 2025
H1 2024	26	1%	1%	26 Sept 2024
H1 2024	26	1%	1%	26 Mar 2024
H1 2023	25	2%	1%	28 Sept 2023
H1 2023	25	2%	2%	24 Mar 2023
H1 2022	23	1%	1%	28 Sept 2022
H1 2022	23	2%	2%	31 Mar 2022

Working-capital effect

What a 24-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 24-day vs a 0-day payment cycle.

≈ £9,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 24-day cycle — about £9,500 more than the same account would carry at 0-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average is steady — within about ±1 days period to period, around 24 days.

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 24, moving within about ±1 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

Can I see what this means for my invoices?

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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?

UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.

What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.

How often is this data updated?

Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.

Is this official government data?

The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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