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Limited-service restaurants experienced growth across all metrics in 2023, although huge current value increases were exaggerated by very high inflation. Nonetheless, the category secured competitive advantages over other consumer foodservice types,…
Limited-service restaurants performed relatively well in 2023, with robust rises in current value sales growth driven by high inflation, and positive growth in volume transactions.
Limited-service restaurants continued to see positive value growth in 2023, although this was partly fuelled by the continued high levels of inflation, which translated into price increases. As a result of the economic downturn and high inflation,…
The economic landscape characterised by a high inflation rate and growing housing costs led to the decline in the disposable incomes of households in Portugal. Reduced purchasing power fuelled a downtrading trend in several industries. For the…
Although outlets numbers continued to decline in 2023, limited-service restaurants witnessed another solid year in Norway and registered one of the best performances in consumer foodservice. On balance, limited-service restaurants have proved…
2023 was a good year for limited-service restaurants in Italy with the category seeing an increase in the number of outlets, while also seeing healthy transaction growth in value and volume terms. This positive trend was seen both in independent as…
2023 saw dramatic rises in living costs resulting from soaring inflation and price hikes for food and energy, with consumer purchasing power squeezed considerably. Greeks had to reduce their spending on foodservice and prioritise essential purchases.…
Limited-service restaurants saw healthy growth in current value terms in 2023 as well in terms of the number of transactions. Although this growth was not as strong as that seen in cafés/bars and full-service restaurants this was in large part due to…
As with consumer foodservice in general, limited-service restaurants continued to see strong current value growth in 2023, albeit spiked more by the high rate of inflation in the country than by bigger volume sales. Current value sales grew at a…
Limited-service restaurants performed better than many other foodservice channels following the outbreak of COVID-19. The category benefited from players adapting to COVID-19 restrictions by offering takeaway and delivery services to help keep…