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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1989

QUARTERLY SURVEY OF RESTAURANT RECEIPTS, PURCHASES FOR 3RD QUARTER

*

THE VALUE OF TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR THE

ENTIRE RESTAURANT SECTOR IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1988, ESTIMATED AT $6,925 MILLION, WAS 14

SAME CENT HIGHER THAN IN THE

SURVEY

QUARTER

1987. RELEASED TODAY

OF

PER TO THE ACCORDING

THE (THURSDAY) BY

PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF A

CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

VOLUME WAS 3 PER CENT HIGHER.

IN

RESTAURANTS

13 PER CENT

THE PROVISIONAL ESTIMATE OF TOTAL PURCHASES BY THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1988 WAS $3,001 MILLION, WHICH WAS HIGHER IN VALUE TERMS THAN IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1987.

SHOPS RECORDED ANALYSED BY TYPE OF RESTAURANT, FAST FOOD

PER CENT) IN THE VALUE OF LARGEST PERCENTAGE INCREASE (27 RECEIPTS WHEN COMPARED WITH THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1987.

THE TOTAL

+

PER CENT)

PLACES" SELLING BEAN

THESE WERE FOLLOWED BY NON-CHINESE RESTAURANTS (18 CHINESE RESTAURANTS (12 PER CENT), "OTHER EATING AND DRINKING COMPRISING HERB TEA SHOPS, CREAMERIES AND OTHER OUTLETS CURD JELLY ETC. (8 PER CENT) AND BARS (7 PER CENT).

TERMS,

THE TOTAL RECEIPTS OF IN VOLUME

FAST FOOD SHOPS,

AND BARS NON-CHINESE RESTAURANTS, "OTHER EATING AND DRINKING PLACES"

4 PER CENT AND 3 PER CENT INCREASED BY 18 PER CENT, 7 PER CENT,

ALMOST CHINESE RESTAURANTS REMAINED

RESPECTIVELY, WHILE

UNCHANGED.

OF THOSE

COMPARING THE FIRST

THREE

QUARTERS

OF ROSE BY

1988

THE SAME WITH 14 PER CENT IN OF PURCHASES BY

PERIOD IN 1987, TOTAL RESTAURANT RECEIPTS VALUE AND 5 PER CENT IN VOLUME; AND THE TOTAL VALUE RESTAURANTS INCREASED BY 11 PER CENT.

IN VALUE TERMS, FAST FOOD SHOPS RECORDED THE LARGEST GROWTH TOTAL RECEIPTS (25 PER CENT), FOLLOWED BY NON-CHINESE RESTAURANTS PER CENT), "OTHER EATING RESTAURANTS (12 PER CENT), CHINESE DRINKING PLACES" (10 PER CENT) AND BARS (5 PER CENT).

IN

(19 AND

IN VOLUME TERMS, THE TOTAL RECEIPTS OF FAST SHOWED THE LARGEST INCREASE, AT 19 PER CENT.

FOOD

SHOPS AGAIN

THE

GROWTH,

IN

VOLUIME

TERMS, RESTAURANTS, "OTHER EATING AND DRINKING PLACES", AND BARS WAS 9 PER CENT, 5 PER RESPECTIVELY.

CENT, 2 PER CENT AND 2 PER CENT

RECORDED BY

CHINESE

NON-CHINESE

RESTAURANTS

/COMPARING THE