Consumer Foodservice

Consumer foodservice has been strongly impacted by COVID-19, due to strict regulatory and quarantine measures, leading to many outlet closures. Limited-service restaurants is, however, the category that best aligns with post-pandemic price ...

The government announced a nationwide state of emergency on 7 April 2020 in response to COVID-19, asking non-essential retailers and foodservice outlets to voluntarily close or to shorten their operating hours to help prevent the virus spreading. ...

Yum! Brands is a restaurant group that operates both full-service and limited-service restaurants under the brands Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, Little Sheep and The Habit Burger Grill. The company continues to expand, and has used technological ...

Sales at full-service restaurants (FSR) went into steep decline in 2020, negatively impacted by measures taken to contain the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Among these restrictions were shutdowns of foodservice outlets or such establishments only...

Although badly hit by Coronavirus (COVID-19), limited-service restaurants (LSR) was the least-impacted consumer foodservice channel by the pandemic in 2020. With takeaway and home delivery services either already in place or quickly added during ...

Consumer foodservice recorded a collapse in sales in 2020 as Coronavirus (COVID-19) hit the region, with outlet closures, lockdowns and travel restrictions among the measures taken to try and control the pandemic. However, limited-service restaurants...

Domino’s Pizza is a global leader in both pizza and technology. Though it ranked second for many years, Domino’s has become the leader in limited-service pizza internationally, surpassing Pizza Hut to become the eighth largest consumer foodservice ...

The Coronavirus pandemic has devastated the global foodservice industry in the short term, while radically accelerating existing trends. Surging investment in delivery and online ordering has combined with massive new demand for prepared meals ...

COVID-19 had a direct and severe impact on consumer foodservice sales in Germany in 2020. To limit the spread of the virus, the German government imposed varying levels of restrictions on dining in restaurants starting as early as March 2020. ...

It is undeniable that the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the consumer foodservice industry in Switzerland, with influence of the pandemic largely negative. Following the imposition of several weeks of strict lockdown measures during ...

McDonald’s is the leading global foodservice player, with a notable presence across regions, thanks to its world-renowned affordable burgers and its ability to cater to on-the-go consumers. McDonald’s continues to innovate with refreshed outlet ...

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, the government put a lockdown period in place during March, which required the closure of schools, offices, public places of interest, and limited foodservice players to takeaway and delivery options only. The...

2020 was a challenging year for the Israeli consumer foodservice industry as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic hit sales hard across all channels, categories and locations. The channels that experienced the worst impact were full-service ...

Taiwan managed to withstand the harsh economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 thanks to a strong response to the epidemiological situation and a swift removal of the threat of COVID-19. As such, Taiwan has reported one of the least severe ...

Consumer foodservice in Peru was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 due to the enforced closure of all non-essential businesses for two months from mid-March to mid-May 2020. This prevented consumer foodservice companies from ...

COVID-19 had a significant negative effect on the retail current value sales of consumer foodservice during 2020. Lockdown measures halted eat-in foodservice for a period, and even after these were eased, many consumers significantly reduced their ...

Consumer foodservice in Romania has been strongly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The impacts started with the total lockdown for two months, starting from 15 March, with the closures of foodservice outlets until 1 June. Within that ...

The COVID-19 crisis had a dramatic impact on the consumer foodservice market in Thailand in 2020, with the suspension of dine-in services across categories and locations during lockdown driving down sales. Consumers’ reluctance to visit outlets ...

COVID-19 had a devastating impact on consumer foodservice in Hungary in 2020, with overall current value sales and transactions plummeting and total outlet numbers also declining sharply. From mid-March to mid-May, operators in all categories saw ...

Consumer foodservice was one of the most severely damaged areas of the economy in Slovakia in 2020. The government-mandated closure of foodservice outlets, except for takeaway and home delivery services, in March and April and then in October to ...