The Daily — Food services and drinking places, November 2012

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Sales for the food services and drinking places industry increased 1.1% from October to $4.4 billion in November. During the same period, the price of food purchased in restaurants rose 0.2%.

In November, three of the four industry sectors posted higher sales compared with October: the full-service restaurant sector (+1.7%), the special food services sector, which includes food service contractors, caterers and mobile food services (+1.2%), and the limited-service restaurant sector (+0.7%). Sales in the drinking places sector fell 0.5%.

In November, all of the provinces posted higher sales. The largest increase was in Quebec (+1.6%), while the smallest gain was reported in Newfoundland and Labrador (+0.4%).

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 us (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; infostats@statcan.gc.ca).

For analytical information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Carey Olineck (613-951-1984; carey.olineck@statcan.gc.ca), Service Industries Division.