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Sales for the food services and drinking places industry decreased 1.3% between May and June to just under $4.0 billion in current dollars. During the same period, the price of food purchased in restaurants increased by 0.5% as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
In June, two of the industry's four sectors posted sales declines. The largest decrease occurred in full-service restaurants (-3.1%), where patrons order and pay for meals at their table.
Sales in the special food services sector, which comprises food service contractors, caterers and mobile food services, fell 1.3%.
At limited-service restaurants, where patrons order and pay for their meals at the counter, sales rose 0.4%, while sales at drinking places increased 0.9%.
Provincially, only New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island recorded increases in sales. The largest sales declines occurred in Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec.
Note: All data in this release are seasonally adjusted and expressed in current dollars.
The data for the current reference month are preliminary. Usually, unadjusted data are revised for the two previous months, and seasonally adjusted data are revised for the three previous months.
With this release, both unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data have been revised from May 2009 back to January 1998.
Factors influencing these revisions beyond the usual short-term period include the implementation of a new sample, improvements to the Business Register, improvements to the survey methodology, corrections for significant non-sampling errors, and modifications to seasonal adjustment options.
Revisions may have a greater impact in more volatile industries and in smaller provinces/territories.
Available on CANSIM: table 355-0006.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2419.
For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Marc Racette (613-951-2924; fax: 613-951-6696; marc.racette@statcan.gc.ca) or Pierre Felx (613-951-0075; pierre.felx@statcan.gc.ca), Service Industries Division.
Table 1
| June 2008r | March 2009r | April 2009r | May 2009r | June 2009p | May to June 2009 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seasonally adjusted | ||||||
| $ thousands | % change | |||||
| Total, food services sales | 3,910,603 | 3,965,949 | 3,989,272 | 4,029,005 | 3,978,615 | -1.3 |
| Full-service restaurants | 1,743,908 | 1,752,198 | 1,764,562 | 1,785,500 | 1,729,919 | -3.1 |
| Limited-service eating places | 1,625,656 | 1,683,576 | 1,695,168 | 1,711,154 | 1,718,343 | 0.4 |
| Special food services | 321,041 | 311,583 | 311,965 | 315,073 | 311,089 | -1.3 |
| Drinking places | 219,998 | 218,592 | 217,577 | 217,278 | 219,264 | 0.9 |
| Provinces and territories | ||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 45,975 | 48,678 | 48,512 | 49,449 | 48,229 | -2.5 |
| Prince Edward Island | 15,236 | 13,810 | 13,916 | 13,742 | 13,837 | 0.7 |
| Nova Scotia | 98,638 | 104,387 | 105,414 | 105,306 | 105,118 | -0.2 |
| New Brunswick | 75,017 | 77,972 | 78,268 | 78,018 | 78,664 | 0.8 |
| Quebec | 773,045 | 809,783 | 794,425 | 799,629 | 781,036 | -2.3 |
| Ontario | 1,462,842 | 1,488,527 | 1,505,052 | 1,522,699 | 1,500,247 | -1.5 |
| Manitoba | 109,255 | 114,824 | 118,186 | 121,510 | 120,959 | -0.5 |
| Saskatchewan | 106,054 | 110,201 | 112,787 | 113,436 | 113,380 | 0.0 |
| Alberta | 564,666 | 549,915 | 549,360 | 560,192 | 557,895 | -0.4 |
| British Columbia | 648,066 | 636,609 | 650,507 | 653,031 | 647,218 | -0.9 |
| Yukon | 3,463 | 3,584 | 3,920 | 3,763 | F | F |
| Northwest Territories | 6,786 | 6,260 | 7,559 | 6,814 | F | F |
| Nunavut | 1,560 | 1,399 | 1,366 | 1,416 | F | F |
