Consumer Foodservice

Following the dramatic declines witnessed in 2020 due to outlet closures in the midst of the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of transactions in consumer foodservice recorded a modest recovery in 2021. Consumer foodservice outlets…

After the steep decline recorded by consumer foodservice in 2020, with bars/pubs, full-service restaurants and some self-service cafeterias that focus on lunches being particularly impacted, 2021 showed some signs of improvement towards the end of…

The lockdown and social distancing measures introduced by the government to control the spread of COVID-19 had a strong negative impact on Mexican consumer foodservice. The most impacted channels are bars/pubs (which rely on eat-in customers) and…

Consumer foodservice recorded a much improved performance in 2021 compared to the notable declines of the previous year resulting from pandemic-induced restrictions and home seclusion, although there was some variation in terms of value creation…

The road to recovery started for consumer foodservice in Canada in 2021 but sales across all segments had a mixed performance. From the standpoint of its performance in 2021, full-service restaurants is expected to rebound slower than the other types…

In summer 2021, Vietnam was hit by a fourth wave of COVID-19, which was much larger in scale and impact compared with all previous waves. In this wave, more than a million people were infected, and there were over 20,000 deaths by the time of report…

Taiwan managed to withstand the COVID-19 pandemic well in 2020, seeing only a slight current value decline thanks to a strong response to the epidemiological situation. However, a COVID-19 outbreak in the country in May 2021 hit consumer foodservice…

Consumer foodservice was significantly affected by COVID-19 in 2020, with strong sales declines and plummeting transaction volumes registered across all channels, and widespread outlet closures seen throughout the industry. The impact continued into…

Consumer foodservice witnessed a significant improvement in value sales in 2021 compared to double-digit declines the previous year, due to the easing of restrictions for operations. With the threat of the pandemic waning in line with the country’s…

After a year of dramatic decline in the sales of restaurants and cafés, the Israeli consumer foodservice market started to recover during 2021. In 2020, sales were hit hard by the fear of COVID-19 and government restrictions imposed to curb the…

COVID-19 restrictions and health concerns have been severely impacting the whole consumer foodservice industry in Ireland. Besides national or regional restrictions and social distancing measures, the Irish hospitality and foodservice industry is…

After a really bad year in 2020, when consumer foodservice in Denmark lost a fifth of its value sales, the market staged a recovery in 2021, returning to positive growth again in this year. However, due to the lockdown at the start of 2021 as well as…

Despite Sweden not implementing strict lockdown periods due to COVID-19, consumer caution and limitations on capacity and social distancing had a strong negative impact on consumer foodservice value sales in 2020. A new wave of infections led to a…

Due to the more rapid rate of infection of the delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 2021, COVID-19 cases increased dramatically during the year. This had a considerable impact on the consumer foodservice market in Thailand as the government…

The recovery of consumer foodservice in Slovakia was slower than expected in 2021, with transaction value and volume still well down on pre-pandemic levels. Consumer foodservice continued to suffer from periodical lockdown restrictions which was a…

The optimistic scenario offered by the rollout of the country’s vaccination programme in 2021, leading to hopes that the pandemic would ease its grip on consumer foodservice and tourism (as a key sales driver) quickly disappeared with the emergence…

The COVID-19 lockdown introduced in autumn 2020 extended into 2021, closing foodservice establishments from 24 October 2020 to 15 May 2021. However, in the first half of 2021, some foodservice businesses reopened despite the government restrictions.…

The COVID-19 pandemic was a major challenge for consumer foodservice in Bulgaria during 2020, as sales plummeted due to temporary closures, movement restrictions, lower incomes and the closure of borders, and numerous outlets closed over the course…

Consumer foodservice saw a massive decline in value sales in 2020. COVID-19 led to a lockdown and social distancing measures, forcing consumers to remain at home and limiting the activity of consumer foodservice establishments. Meanwhile, tourism…

The consumer foodservice industry in Nigeria continued to face challenging operating conditions in 2021 due to high levels of inflation, the depreciation of the naira, and consumers’ falling disposable incomes. However, during the year, all channels,…