CHD Expert Group - All about Lunch break in France

New abstraction of CHD Expert shows that over 60% of the alive citizenry adopt canteen aliment or self-prepared meals

Paris – July 25, 2008 - Time is money: Only 33 percent of the alive citizenry in France accept cafeteria in abounding account restaurants. Over 60 percent of the advisers and artisan adopt able commons in advanced and the circadian foodservice in canteen and cafeterias. This is aftereffect of a study* of CHD Expert Group, the arch bazaar analysis aggregation for the Away-from-Home Market in Europe and North America. For the analysis a adumbrative sample of 2,000 French women and men has been interviewed in May this year.
“Only six percent of the restaurant guests accept abundant time and money for circadian gourmet courses of several hours. This blazon of guests are mainly business men and chief executives,” Nicolas Nouchi, Managing Director of CHD Expert France, said. The archetypal ‘lunch breakers’ in France are amid 25 and 44 years old and are advisers in the average management. Only a division of them could get at home for cafeteria break. 75 percent accept to chose amid several account cafeteria occasions: 34 percent of the French alive chic accept their able commons in advanced – in minimum already a week. 15 percent of them accept ‘meals on wheels’ daily. 28 percent of the companies agents appointment a canteen or cafeteria already a anniversary (16% of them daily).
The aliment types for cafeteria break trends appear well-balanced, assorted and aboriginal meals. “Coq-qu vin and a bottle wine for cafeteria breach aren’t actual trendy,” Nicolas Nouchi states. Nearly two-thirds adopt French acceptable affable (65%) followed by Asian affable (35%), pizzas and added Italian specialities (28%). Regarding the meal types there’s a favourite: 26 percent of the consumers adjustment capital courses and desert. 15 percent of the consumers adopt today’s specials and 12 percent are agog on appetizers & capital courses. Alcoholic drinks are be abhorred at cafeteria time by about two-third of the guest. The meal (at abounding account restaurants) is mainly taken amid business colleagues (54%) and rarer with accompany of ancestors members.
In restaurants the boilerplate analysis for cafeteria is 12,50 Euro. The alone guests chose amid three accepted restaurants for cafeteria and absorb up to 50 account time for their break.
The adverse are the aliment habits in fast aliment facilities. The bedfellow absorb alone 6,70 Euro in boilerplate for e.g. French-style sandwiches (chosen by 67%), salads and crudities (44%) or hamburgers (34%) or kebabs (31%).

*The abstraction “Panorama de la restauration: La abeyance déjeuner” is accessible at: CHD Expert France, Tel. +33 (426) 729000.

Nicolas Nouchi, nnouchi chd-expert.com
CHD Expert Group - France
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