So far the year 2011 hasn’t brought any dramatic changes to the overall foodservice landscape in Russia. The major trends that emerged last year are now in full progress.From mid-2010 to mid-2011, Russia’s top 20 restaurant operators showed a unitgrowth of 11%. The number of operations belonging to the top 15 brands in Moscow went up by 8%. Various entrepreneurs are continuing to invest in the foodservice, especially the QSR, sector, often serving as franchising partners for local or international brands. | more |
Catering in France 2010: amongst the sector’s leaders, net sales for the year amounted to U12.7 bn after VAT, a whole 8% up on the previous year. This emerges from a survey of the latest Top 50 carried out by French trade magazine Néorestauration. The big percentage winners are QSR players such as Sushi Shop (+41.7%), Subway (+33%) and KFC (+23.4%) – but also the full-service formula La Pataterie (+45.7%), which offers very good value for money. |
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Germany’s 100 biggest restaurant chains / companies increased their sales by 2.3% in 2010 (09: +1.1%; 08: +4.2%). By the standards of the previous year, therefore, growth more than doubled. The strongest upturn was in event catering |
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For the second time running, the list of the world’s best restaurants isheaded by Noma in Copenhagen |
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