The Daily, Tuesday, June 28, 2005. Restaurants, caterers and taverns

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Restaurants, caterers and taverns

Total sales of the restaurants, caterers and taverns industry reached $3.1 billion in April, a 2.3% increase over April 2004 on a year-over-year basis. (Data are neither seasonally adjusted, nor adjusted for inflation.)

The most important year-over-year increases in sales at the provincial level were in Alberta (+11.6%), British Columbia (+11.4%) and Newfoundland and Labrador (+6.3%).

The 2.3% year-over-year advance in sales at the national level was due to the increase in demand for full (+2.5%) and limited (+2.0%) service restaurants, which accounted for 85% of the industry sales in April. Social and mobile caterers (+8.0%) and food service contractors (+5.8%) posted even higher year-over-year increases but they accounted for only 7% of industry sales in April.

Food services sales

March 2004^r

March 2005^r

April 2004^r

April 2005^p

Not seasonally adjusted ($ thousands)

Total, food services sales

2,913,986

3,018,912

3,048,347

3,119,319

Full service restaurants

1,355,592

1,407,893

1,421,970

1,457,587

Limited service restaurants

1,140,381

1,147,547

1,176,265

1,199,238

Food service contractors

153,489

180,039

157,547

166,607

Social and mobile caterers

49,238

54,756

59,265

64,019

Drinking places

215,286

228,677

233,300

231,869

Provinces and territories

Newfoundland and Labrador

30,984

36,793

34,565

36,730

Prince Edward Island

11,198

10,490

11,100

9,953

Nova Scotia

76,725

67,564

76,211

71,431

New Brunswick

60,575

54,877

56,415

57,086

Quebec

576,033

601,803

641,921

637,186

Ontario

1,141,312

1,183,463

1,229,500

1,220,851

Manitoba

81,539

76,731

83,586

80,745

Saskatchewan

75,525

70,773

81,980

76,443

Alberta

346,626

382,479

348,911

389,505

British Columbia

500,136

523,983

475,341

529,351

Yukon

3,694

2,493

2,391

2,430

Northwest Territories

8,406

7,011

5,836

7,238

Nunavut

1,234

452

589

369

^r	Revised figures.
^p	Preliminary figures.

Note: The Monthly Restaurants, Caterers and Taverns Survey has undergone several important changes. Effective starting the April 2004 reference month, the survey was restratified and a new sample was selected. Commencing with the reference month of May 2004, the survey incorporated increased use of GST data to reduce response burden and collection costs. As a result of these changes, total food services sales for Canada and the provinces/territories have been revised back to January 1998.

Available on CANSIM: table 355-0001.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2419.

For more information, to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality, or to obtain the new methodology paper about the Monthly Restaurants, Caterers and Taverns Survey contact Alain Mbassegue (613-951-2011; fax: 613-951-6696, alain.mbassegue@statcan.gc.ca), Service Industries Division.