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In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 Japan introduced a range of measures to help prevent the virus spreading. With regard to consumer foodservice this saw restrictions on eat-in services. Although this did have a negative impact on sales within…

Limited-service restaurants registered a relatively favourable performance in comparison with other areas of the Swiss consumer foodservice industry in 2020 as the sales declines registered in the channel were far more moderate than what was seen in…

Limited-service restaurants overall outperformed the otherwise severely declining market in 2020, due to the inherent focus on takeaway orders, although some limited-service categories were better-positioned than others. Pizza chains, for example,…

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Chile in March 2020, the government quickly implemented measures that included closing offices, schools, non-essential retail, and restaurants. This created a fast disruption to various industries. While certain…

In 2020, chained chicken limited-service restaurants and chained burger limited-service restaurants were negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, major brands in these categories focused on rapid outlet expansion in…

Limited-service restaurants was one of the best-placed consumer foodservice categories to respond to the difficult situation of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to many of the other categories in consumer foodservice in Peru. Despite being…

The retail current value sales of limited-service restaurants declined sharply during 2020. Lockdown restrictions due to COVID-19 severely affected limited-service restaurants during the spring, and even after these were eased, social distancing…

Limited-service restaurants suffered a severe blow over the course of 2020 as the COVID-19 crisis exerted a highly negative influence on the entire channel. One of the factors that worked against limited-service restaurants during the year was that…

During the lockdown over March-May 2020, a few limited-service restaurants outlets located inside shopping centres needed to close down, especially in Bangkok, resulting in the lower sales during this period. Restaurants were forced to adapt to…

Eat-in sales in limited-service restaurants were severely impacted by the restrictions imposed by the government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Even so, the channel’s overall performance did not suffer to the same extent as that of…

Limited-service restaurants was negatively impacted in 2020, due to the two-month period of lockdown due to COVID-19, when leaving home was only permitted for the purchase of essential goods. Furthermore, there was a total closure of all consumer…

The major factors behind the very negative growth recorded in limited-service restaurants during 2020 was the significant shift towards consumers preparing meals with scratch at home that was seen at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. There were…

Limited-service restaurants was the area of the Hungarian foodservice market that proved most resilient to the negative impact of COVID-19 in 2020, with current value sales and transactions declining at substantially lower rates than in the other…

The clear leading player McDonald’s Ukraine introduced further innovations before the outbreak of COVID-19 and continued to expand its chain and gain value share in the category in 2020, despite the disruption of COVID-19. Over the review period,…

In 2020, limited-service restaurants recorded a sharp decline in foodservice current value sales as a result of lockdown restrictions and a shift in consumer lifestyles as consumers stayed at home to avoid COVID-19 contagion. During the COVID-19…

COVID-19 led to a significant shift from dine-in sales to home delivery and drive-through sales in 2020, as consumers were looking to limit their number of visits to foodservice outlets. Whilst COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictive measures had an…

Although there was no lockdown that required limited-service players to close, people were required to social distance in public during 2020, which limited the number of consumers allowed in each venue. In addition, many consumers avoided being out…

Limited-services restaurants suffered a catastrophic plunge in eat-in sales during the COVID-19 pandemic as most consumer foodservice outlets were forced to close for long periods during the lockdown periods. Although drive-through and home delivery…

With spending on consumer foodservice having dropped sharply in Bulgaria over the course of 2020, many outlet closures were seen in limited-service restaurants. The negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected independent…

Although eat-in sales in limited-service restaurants were not banned during the COVID-19 health crisis in Hong Kong, China in 2020, restrictions were introduced to manage the risk of contagion. During the lockdown periods eat-in sales were banned…