In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government imposed national lockdowns, which lasted for more than four months in 2020. During the lockdowns, the consumer foodservice industry was not allowed to offer an eat-in service, which negatively impacted the value sales of foodservice providers. During home seclusion, with the curtailment...
After having expanded at a healthy pace earlier in the review period, the Danish consumer foodservice market saw overall current value sales and transactions plummet in 2020 due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Denmark was one of the first countries in Europe to impose a nationwide lockdown. From 18 March to 18 May, all foodservice outlets were...
In 2020, Consumer Foodservice transactions posted a dramatic decline in demand across all categories. This is due to the devastating effects of the COVID-19 crisis which led to the implementation of a lengthy period of national lockdown from March until June 2020. During this period of national lockdown, all non-essential retail and consumer...
In 2020, consumer foodservice recorded an overall negative performance as three major waves of COVID-19 hit the country, which affected consumers’ overall lifestyle shifts. The South Korean Government raised social distancing levels several times throughout the year along with the rapid emergence of COVID-19 cases in Q1, Q3, and Q4 2020, which...
COVID-19 had a direct and severe impact on consumer foodservice sales in Germany in 2020. To limit the spread of the virus, the German government imposed varying levels of restrictions on dining in restaurants starting as early as March 2020. Restrictions ran in some form throughout the rest of the year, and are widely expected to continue...
Consumer foodservice suffered deep losses in Norway in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions introduced to combat contagion. Although a national lockdown was not introduced in the country, strict restrictions forced several channels to temporarily close their doors over the March to May and November to December 2020 periods....
Consumer foodservice was one of the most severely damaged areas of the economy in Slovakia in 2020. The government-mandated closure of foodservice outlets, except for takeaway and home delivery services, in March and April and then in October to December, had a severe impact on foodservice businesses. Not all operators were able to switch...
Consumer foodservice in the Czech Republic was heavily impacted by the COVID-19-induced restrictive measures during the first and second waves of the virus in 2020. Only takeaway and home-delivery services were allowed during the periods of lockdown, thus players had to quickly adapt to offer and enhance such services in order to survive....
The COVID-19 pandemic presented major challenges to the entire Bulgarian consumer foodservice industry during 2020 as sales plummeted and numerous outlets closed down over the course of the year. The initial quarantine lockdown that was announced during mid-March caused major disruption for almost every outlet across all consumer foodservice...
In 2020, lockdown restrictions and social distancing measures that temporarily suspended the operations of non-essential businesses, such as consumer foodservice, adversely impacted revenues directly and severely. The main sources of revenue through most of the year were home delivery and takeaway operations, which typically accounted for...