Food services and drinking places, May 2012

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Sales for the food services and drinking places industry increased 1.1% from April to $4.4 billion in May. During the same period, the price index for food purchased in restaurants rose 0.2%, as measured by the Consumer Price Index.

In May, all four industry sectors posted increased sales compared with April: the limited-service restaurant sector (+1.2%), the full-service restaurant sector (+1.1%), the drinking places sector (+0.6%) and the special food services sector, which includes food service contractors, caterers and mobile food services (+0.5%).

In May, all provinces posted higher sales. Increases ranged from 0.1% in Prince Edward Island to 2.3% in Alberta.

Note to readers

All data in this release are seasonally adjusted and expressed in current dollars.

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.