Sales for food services and drinking place increase 1% in December 2009

3 mars 2010
Affiché par : smmresas

(Excerpt from Statistics Canada's The Daily 26 February, 2010.)

Sales for the food services and drinking places industry increased 1.0% from November to December to nearly $4.1 billion in current dollars. During the same period, the price of food purchased in restaurants rose 0.2%, as measured by the Consumer Price Index.

In December, each of the industry's four sectors posted an increase in sales. The largest advance, at 2.4%, occurred in drinking places. The special food services sector, comprising food service contractors, caterers and mobile food services, recorded a 2.0% rise in sales.

Full-service restaurants, the largest of the industry's four sectors, registered a 1.4% increase. Sales in limited-service restaurants, where patrons order and pay for their meals at the counter, rose 0.3%.

Provincially, Alberta (-1.3%) and New Brunswick (-1.0%) were the only two provinces to record lower sales. Ontario and Prince Edward Island posted sales increases of 2.7% and 1.9% respectively.

Note: All data in this release are seasonally adjusted and expressed in current dollars.

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