The Catering Market
 | Catering is the fifth largest segment in
the UK consumer market, only food, cars, insurance and clothing are
larger |
| There are over 299,000 food service
outlets in the UK, serving a total of 8.7b meals per year |
| The catering industry is divided into
two sectors, i.e. the Profit sector which includes restaurants,
pubs, restaurants, cafes etc which account for 65% of all meals served
and the Cost sector, outlets catering for business and
industry, healthcare, education and the MOD |
| The profit sector consists of:
- 60,861 hotels
- 15,925 restaurants
- 1,913 fast food outlets
- 30,369 cafes and take-aways
- 57,408 pubs
- 1,313 travel outlets
- 47,912 leisure outlets |
| The cost sector consists of:
- 21,396 business and industry outlets
- 24,102 healthcare outlets
- 34,514 education outlets
- 3,292 MOD outlets |
| In 1997 the total value of food
purchases from food service outlets was £8.4b |
| The number of meals served in pubs has
more than doubled in the period 1981-1997, although the number of
outlets has decreased by 2.7% |
| In the profit sector, Pubs account for
16% of all meals served, followed closely by Leisure 13% and Cafes and
Take-Aways 12% |
| Total value of food purchases in the
profit sector was £6.8b in 1997, against food sales of £20b |
| Total value of food purchases in the
cost sector was £1.5b in 1997, against food sales of £1.5b |
| Annual food and drink spend in UK
catering industry:
- £9.0b drink
- £1.8b ambient food
- £1.6b chilled food
- £1.5b frozen food
- £3.5b fresh food |
| More than 1.2m people are employed in
the profit sector of the UK catering industry |
Sources: Foodservice Intelligence
Hospitality Training Foundation
Eating Out In the UK
| Eating out is one of the fastest growing
leisure pursuits |
| Currently a third of all money spent on
food is eaten out of the home. It is forecasted that this amount will
increase by almost 20% by 2020 |
| People in Britain spent £21.4b on
eating and drinking in restaurants last year, compared with £59b
spent on food eaten in the home |
| The dominant sector in the industry is
fast food with sales at £6.1b which compares with £4.9b spent in
restaurants |
| Pub catering turnover grew 23% between
1993 and 1997, from £3.35b to £4.14b. In contrast turnover of
alcoholic drinks grew by just 3% over the same period |
| In a recent survey, 77% of all British
adults had at least one meal in a restaurant, pub or bar during the
previous three month period, 70% had more than one meal out and six
out of ten people had taken more than two meals |
| In a recent survey, on non business
occasions, family meals were the most widespread amongst the over 35s,
with meals with friends coming second. In contrast, only 6 out of 10
15 to 24 year olds ate out with families, but three quarters of them
had a meal in a restaurant with friends |
Mediterranean cuisine
| Retail sales of pasta were estimated at
£197m in 1996, whilst in the same year the food service sector
consumed more than 20,000 tonnes of dry pasta |
| In the 1960s olive oil was regarded more
as a medicine than a food and three quarters of all sales were through
chemists. Today, Britons consume over 17,500 tonnes, a growth of over
500% in eight years |
Sources: NOP Research Group
Mintel - Mar 2000
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