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Thursday, April 27, 2006 Restaurants, caterers and taverns
Total estimated sales of the restaurants, caterers and taverns industry reached $2.9 billion in February, up 6.0% compared with the same month a year earlier. (Data are neither seasonally adjusted, nor adjusted for inflation). Favourable economic conditions and particularly mild weather in February are amongst the factors that have contributed to this result. The largest year-over-year increases, at the provincial level, were recorded in Alberta (+10.7%), Quebec (+8.7%) and Saskatchewan (+7.9%). Ontario, which has the largest provincial share of the industry with 39% of the food service industry sales in February 2006, recorded a year-over-year increase of 5.1%. The year-over-year increase in sales, at the national level, was due to higher sales at full service (+8.0%) and limited service (+5.5%) restaurants. These two sectors accounted for 85% of industry sales in February. Food service contractors (+10.7%) and social and mobile caterers (+5.4%) also had robust sales in February, with these two sectors accounting for 8.5% of the industry sales during the month. 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 of this release, or to obtain the new methodology paper about the survey, contact Alain Mbassegue (613-951-2011; fax: 613-951-6696, alain.mbassegue@statcan.gc.ca), Service Industries Division.
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