Food service

摘要

Despite numerous challenges, restaurant industry sales last year increased 3.8% over the prior year to a record high of nearly $800 billion, according to the National Restaurant Association. Full-service restaurant sales climbed 3.5% to $263 billion, while quick-service restaurant sales grew 5.3% to $234 billion. Takeout, delivery and food trucks are driving industry growth, said Hudson Riehle, senior vice-president of the research and knowledge group at the N.R.A. at the group's Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show, held May 19-22 in Chicago. "Sixty-three per cent of all restaurant traffic is off-premises, and that proportion has increased as the years have passed," he said, adding that the off-premises market "only becomes more important over the decade ahead."