Food services and drinking places, July 2012

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Sales for the food services and drinking places industry rose 0.6% between June and July to $4.4 billion. During the same period, the price index for food purchased in restaurants remained stable as measured by the Consumer Price Index.

In July, three of the four industry sectors posted higher sales compared with June: the drinking places sector (+1.7%), the full-service restaurant sector (+1.1%) and the special food services sector, which includes food service contractors, caterers and mobile food services (+0.4%). Sales in the limited-service restaurant sector were unchanged.

In July, five provinces posted higher sales, with the largest increase in Alberta (+2.2%). The biggest decline was in Prince Edward Island (-0.8%).

Note to readers

All data in this release are seasonally adjusted and expressed in current dollars. For more information on seasonal adjustment, see Seasonal adjustment and identifying economic trends.

Seasonally adjusted data are revised for the three previous months. Data are also revised annually. Revisions improve data quality and coherence and are based on information not available at the time of the initial estimates.

Table 1

Food services and drinking places – Seasonally adjusted

Available without charge in CANSIM: table CANSIM table355-0006.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number survey number2419.

For more information or to order data, contact Statistics Canada's National Contact Centre (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; 613-951-8116; infostats@statcan.gc.ca).

To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Yukman Cheung (613-951-8354; yukman.cheung@statcan.gc.ca), Service Industries Division.