Western Europe

Inflation has had a strong impact on boosting sales of full-service restaurants in the country in 2023, while volume transactions are growing, but at a slower pace. Tourism is fuelling demand, with special emphasis on lodging located outlets. At the…

By some distance, full-service restaurants remain the biggest category in consumer foodservice, which benefits from the high spend per transaction. Norway is notorious for its high consumer food service prices, which are up to three times that seen…

Full-service restaurants continued on the path to recovery after the pandemic with the category seeing an increase in the number and value of transactions, although the number of outlets continued to decline. Eating out at full-service restaurants is…

High inflation in 2023 led to declining disposable incomes, in turn slowing down domestic spending in foodservice, despite the year marking a post-pandemic return to normal. While Q1 began with improved performance in terms of sales per outlet, the…

Full-service restaurants saw stronger growth in value and volume terms than limited-service restaurants in 2023, although this was in part due to the former seeing a more significant decline during the pandemic. Limited-service restaurants proved…