Full-Service Restaurants in New Zealand

PROSPECTS

Food delivery supplements sales in full-service restaurants

Uber Eats, a smartphone application from ridesharing service Uber, gives users access to a broad range of food for delivery. Its offering includes options from green smoothies and salads to Mexican feasts from over hundreds of popular full-service restaurants across the major cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Sustainable and locally sourced ingredients take on greater significance

Full-service restaurants are increasingly focusing on sustainable, locally sourced ingredients which give the food a sense of place. For example, with some pizza full-service restaurants mill their flour for pasta and cure their own meats to pair with locally made buffalo mozzarella, stracciatella and burrata.

Increasing interest in vegan alternatives leads players to broaden plant-based options

For many years, New Zealand’s major cities such as Wellington have been highly accommodating to vegetarian and vegan dietary requirements, with most full-service restaurants offering a wide and varied selection of food options. While many restaurants offer vegetarian or vegan versions of meat-based dishes, meat-free dishes are increasingly appearing on menus.

COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

Lone Star continues to lead full-service restaurants

The Lone Star brand remained in the lead in 2019, operated by various franchisees. Lone Star continues to focus on high-quality food and fine dining.

Independent full-service restaurants overwhelmingly dominate; New Zealanders fall out of love with buffets

Full-service restaurants remains characterised by independent outlets. This is in part due to New Zealand’s sizeable immigrant population, with its diversity reflected in full-service restaurants offering a wide variety of national cuisines and flavours.

Latin American full-service restaurants sees continued strong growth

Independent Latin American full-service Restaurants led growth in full-service restaurants in 2019. Operators in New Zealand are increasingly seeking to offer consumers an immersive dining experience, to boost dine-in sales in the face of the rising popularity of online orders for home deliveries.

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