Limited-Service Restaurants

As the cost of living increases, consumers are paying more attention to their outgoings and are opting to reduce their expenditure when dining out. Limited-service operators are benefitting from this trend as consumers trade down to cheaper…

Instead of cutting costs and trimming operations, Burger King developed a new set of family meals with menus designed to meet the growing demands of home office workers. The chain also opened more stores during the pandemic as part of its expansion…

Limited-service restaurants in Japan saw a solid increase in current value sales in 2022, partly driven by the rising price of ingredients. Although players tried to delay price increases in 2021, as Japanese consumers are not used to seeing price…

Fish limited-service restaurants continued to expand very successfully in Italy at the end of the review period, not least through the strong preference of Italian consumers for Poke outlets. This development was related to the rising interest in a…

In general, the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were highly detrimental to the performance of limited-service restaurants. When compared to 2019, sales declined dramatically in 2020, and despite improvements in 2021, sales figures still sat below…

Due to intensifying competition with the emergence of domestic brands in limited-service restaurants, many leading international brands, such as Domino's Pizza and McDonald’s, launched various customer loyalty reward programmes in an effort to retain…

Limited-service restaurant players were forced to substantially increase their unit prices in 2022 as high inflation pushed up costs of raw materials, production, transportation, storage, energy, taxes and so on. The price of bread soared thanks to…

Despite holding lower share across all indicators compared to independents, the growth of limited-service restaurants in Belgium continued to be mainly driven by chains in 2022 due to their greater adaptability, resources, and facilities to face…

2022 saw strong value sales growth in limited-service restaurants for the second year running, which resulted in value sales rising to levels approaching what was seen in the category in 2019, prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Transactions…

In 2022, burger limited-service restaurants saw the steepest drop in the spend per transaction amongst limited-service restaurants, after leading with double-digit growth for two consecutive years. This was attributable to the resumption of dining in…

Limited-service restaurants recorded significant growth in 2022, continuing the recovery that began in 2021. While the category did not reach the level of sales seen prior to the pandemic, it is the consumer foodservice sector that was closest to…

Baskin-Robbins (Inspire Brands Inc), the large global chain of ice cream speciality shops, opened its first-ever restaurant in Casablanca. After the pandemic, Morocco was labelled by many as the new business hub in the region and it is starting to…

Limited-service restaurants registered healthy growth in value sales and also in terms of the opening of new establishments in 2022, and also remained the largest segment within consumer foodservice. This was in spite of difficult economic…

Given the high rental costs in cities, restaurants have established different strategies to enable them to become established in spaces with high traffic and consumption, without having to pay full rents. One of these strategies is to establish…

Despite the pent-up demand for socialisation, the market saw new challenges in 2022, that led to only slow-paced recovery, with gains partly explained by an increase in the average spend due to inflation, but also due to a gradual increase in…

Several operators of limited-service restaurants successfully completed primary listing in 2022. This was amidst downturn in the channel, that was impacted by supply chain disruptions and strict pandemic controls, which curbed consumer spending.…

Convenience stores limited-service restaurants continued to see strong growth in 2022. This was largely due to inflationary pressures and the decline in consumer purchasing power. At such restaurants, hot drinks and meals such as hot dogs, burgers,…

Limited-service restaurants recorded a very robust performance in Hungary during 2022 as the channel rebounded particularly strongly from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The strong recovery applied to both chained and independent limited-service…

The lifting of COVID-19 related restrictions and the reopening of foodservice establishments led to an increase in eating in and a subsequent decline in home delivery and takeaway in 2022, negatively affecting the volume of transactions of…

Limited-service restaurants recovered strongly throughout 2022, following the era of pandemic restrictions and associated losses in sales. The COVID-19 lockdowns ended from October 2021 in Vietnam, with regulations regarding social distancing and…