Western Europe

Whether coffee, tea or other hot drinks, the industry remains very popular with consumers in Switzerland. Overall, due to coffee and tea, hot drinks recorded moderate retail volume growth in 2023. While signalling a rebound from a decline in 2022,…

Full-service restaurants experienced hyperinflation effects more strongly than other consumer foodservice categories, as their price points were already higher than average in the industry. There was a small drop in overall transactions. As the…

Though 2023 was a year of robust post-pandemic recovery for full-service restaurants in the Netherlands, many outlets reported financial difficulties. The overall category posted strong value sales growth, but restaurants also suffered from extreme…

Full-service restaurants continued to see positive value growth in 2023, with inflation driving price increases. With the economy slowing and moving into recession in 2023, local consumers have cut back on unnecessary expenditure, including eating…

Inflation has had a strong impact on boosting sales of full-service restaurants in the country in 2023, while volume transactions are growing, but at a slower pace. Tourism is fuelling demand, with special emphasis on lodging located outlets. At the…

By some distance, full-service restaurants remain the biggest category in consumer foodservice, which benefits from the high spend per transaction. Norway is notorious for its high consumer food service prices, which are up to three times that seen…

Full-service restaurants continued on the path to recovery after the pandemic with the category seeing an increase in the number and value of transactions, although the number of outlets continued to decline. Eating out at full-service restaurants is…

High inflation in 2023 led to declining disposable incomes, in turn slowing down domestic spending in foodservice, despite the year marking a post-pandemic return to normal. While Q1 began with improved performance in terms of sales per outlet, the…

Full-service restaurants saw stronger growth in value and volume terms than limited-service restaurants in 2023, although this was in part due to the former seeing a more significant decline during the pandemic. Limited-service restaurants proved…

Full-service restaurants continued to see faster current value growth than consumer foodservice overall in 2023, although the situation is not as bright as it seems. At the end of the review period, the gap in the growth rate was much smaller than in…