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IN VALUE TERMS,
TOTAL RECEIPTS OF FAST FOOD-SHOPS, "OTHER BATING AND DRINKING PLACES" BARS AND NON-CHINESE RESTAURANTS INCREASED BY 20.0%, 17.5%, 3.9% AND 2.0% RESPECTIVELY, WHILE THE TOTAL RECEIPTS OF CHINESE RESTAURANTS DECREASED BY 6.2%.
IN VOLUME TERMS, TOTAL RECEIPTS OF FAST-FOOD SHOPS AND "OTHER EATING AND DRINKING PLACES" INCREASED BY 16.8%, AND
11.7% RESPECTIVELY, WHILE THOSE OF NON-CHINESE RESTAURANTS, BARS AND CHINESE RESTAURANTS DECREASED BY 0.8%, 1.7% AND 8.8% RESPECTIVELY.
TABLE 1 PRESENTS THE REVISED FIGURES FOR THE TOTAL RECEIPTS AND TOTAL PURCHASES OF THE ENTIRE RESTAURANT SECTOR FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1991 AND THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1991.
TABLE 2 SHOWS THE NEW VALUE AND VOLUME INDEXES OF TOTAL RECEIPTS BY TYPE OF RESTAURANT FOR THE FIRST QUARTER AND THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1991, WITH THE QUARTERLY AVERAGE FROM OCTOBER 1989 To SEPTEMBER 1990 TAKEN AS 100.
ALSO TABULATED ARE COMPARISONS OF THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1991 RESULTS WITH THOSE FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1991 AND THOSE FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990; COMPARISONS OF TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1991 WITH THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990 ARE ALSO GIVEN.
THE REPORT CONTAINING THE ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND QUARTER
QUARTER OF 1991 RESULTS, A TABLE PRESENTING THE TOTAL RESTAURANT RECEIPTS AND THÉ NEW RESTAURANT RECEIPTS INDEX SERIES FROM 1986 TO SECOND QUARTER 1991, IS NOW ON SALE AT THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE, GROUND FLOOR, GPO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT PLACE, CENTRAL AT $1.50 PER COPY.
ENQUIRIES ON THE SURVEY RESULTS MAY BE
BE DIRECTED TO THE WHOLESALE/RETAIL TRADE STATISTICS SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTits DEPARTMENT (TEL. NO.: 802 1258).
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