Turkey: Food Service - Hotel Restaurant Institutional

The COVID-19 pandemic had a very negative impact on the Turkish consumer food service industry in 2020, with a strong decline in sales and widespread outlet closures seen throughout the industry. Full-service restaurants saw sales decline by 33 percent by value from 2019 to 2020, as the number of outlets in the category declined by 10 percent and transaction volume declined by 43 percent. Both independent and chain restaurants shifted their focus towards home delivery. Relatively moderate sales declines were recorded in limited-service restaurants compared to full-service restaurants during 2020 as such outlets benefitted from strong industry-wide shift towards less expensive options and home delivery orders. Bars and pubs were required to remain closed for most of 2020 due to COVID-19 regulations and were the worst-affected sector of the restaurant sector. Altogether, in 2020, there were about 128,000 commercial food service locations throughout the country, a 12 percent decline from 2019.