Food services and drinking places, January 2013
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Released: 2013-03-28
Sales for the food services and drinking places industry rose 0.5% from December to $4.5 billion in January. During the same period, the price of food purchased in restaurants edged up 0.2%.
In January, two of the four industry sectors posted higher sales compared with December: the limited-service restaurant sector (+0.9%) and the full-service restaurant sector (+0.2%). Sales decreased 0.1% in the special food services sector, which includes food service contractors, caterers and mobile food services, and 0.4% in the drinking places sector.
In January, six provinces saw higher sales. The largest increases were in Alberta (+1.6%) and Quebec (+1.5%), while the biggest decline was in Saskatchewan (-0.7%).
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.
With this release, data for Food services and drinking places will be based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2012 instead of NAICS 2007.
Contact information
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For analytical information, or 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.
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