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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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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,…
As a result of the energy crisis triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Austria saw exceptionally high inflation for the second year in a row in 2023. For local consumers, this meant less disposable income and a concomitant reluctance to spend…
Limited-service restaurants continued to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2023, although value growth was much slower than recent years. This is mainly due to the twin issues of higher food prices and more conservative spending patterns, as…
Limited-service restaurants performed better than many other foodservice channels following the outbreak of COVID-19. The category benefited from players adapting to COVID-19 restrictions by offering takeaway and delivery services to help keep…
As with consumer foodservice in general, limited-service restaurants continued to see strong current value growth in 2023, albeit spiked more by the high rate of inflation in the country than by bigger volume sales. Current value sales grew at a…