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13 March 2023 Food and beverage services: number of employees still considerably lower in 2022 than before the Covid-19 crisis

The food and beverage services sector lost many of their staff in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of employees increased in 2022 but was still markedly lower than in the pre-Covid year of 2019. Last year, 12.5% more people were employed in the food and beverage services sector than in 2021, when many Covid-19 restrictions applied. However, their number was still a good tenth (11.8%) lower than in 2019, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).

24 February 2022 Turnover in January 2022: -1.3% on the previous month

27 January 2022 Turnover in December 2021: +1.7% on the previous month

14 January 2022 Covid-19 crisis: number of people employed in the restaurant industry markedly down

23 December 2021 Turnover in November 2021: +3.5% on the previous month

6 December 2021 Turnover of travel agencies and tour operators plummeted by over 70% in 2020 from the pre-crisis year 2019

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New unit names as from reference year 2018

There will be slight changes in the evaluations of the statistical business register as from reference year 2018. Tables on “Unternehmen” (enterprises) will be renamed tables on "Rechtliche Einheiten" (legal units), tables on "Betriebe" (local units) will be renamed tables on "Niederlassungen" (local units).