Future of Foodservice Industry Trends by Channel, Profit and Cost Metrics, Outlet-Type, Growth Dynamics and Forecast to 2028

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Published: January 29, 2025 Report Code: GDFS240001GS-ST

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Analyze the global foodservice market with GlobalData’s comprehensive industry report. Explore QSR, FSR, coffee shops, pubs, consumer behavior, market forecasts, competitive analysis, and growth opportunities through 2028.

Report Value Proposition – Why Does the Global Foodservice Market Matter?

The global foodservice industry is undergoing significant transformation as evolving consumer preferences, digital innovation, convenience, affordability, and changing dining habits reshape demand across restaurants, cafés, pubs, and other foodservice channels. Businesses that understand these shifts can better position themselves to capture emerging growth opportunities and strengthen their competitive advantage.

GlobalData’s Global Foodservice Market Analysis report provides a comprehensive evaluation of the worldwide foodservice industry, combining market forecasts, consumer insights, channel performance analysis, and competitive benchmarking. Covering both profit and cost sector foodservice channels, the report helps organizations understand evolving consumer behavior, winning business models, and future market opportunities through 2028.

You can use this report to:

  • Understand global foodservice market trends and growth forecasts
  • Analyze consumer dining behavior and channel preferences
  • Evaluate performance across key foodservice sectors
  • Benchmark leading foodservice operators and brands
  • Identify emerging growth opportunities and market risks
  • Support strategic planning, expansion, and investment decisions

Key Insights in the Global Foodservice Market

The report explores the major trends shaping the future of foodservice worldwide.

Key themes include:

  • Growth outlook for the global foodservice industry through 2028
  • Consumer segmentation and evolving dining preferences
  • Performance of quick-service restaurants (QSR)
  • Trends across full-service restaurants (FSR)
  • Expansion of coffee and tea shop formats
  • Competitive dynamics within pubs, clubs, and bars
  • Digital innovation, menu development, and service transformation
  • Channel-specific growth opportunities and market challenges

Scope

What Will You Learn from This Report?

This report provides insight into:

  • Global foodservice market forecasts

  • Consumer behavior and dining occasions

  • QSR market performance

  • Full-service restaurant trends

  • Coffee and tea shop growth

  • Pub, club, and bar market analysis

  • Profit and cost sector foodservice channels

  • Competitive benchmarking of leading operators

  • Menu innovation and customer engagement strategies

  • Future opportunities across the global foodservice industry

Who Should Buy This Report?

This report is valuable for:

  • Restaurant operators

  • Quick-service restaurant brands

  • Full-service restaurant chains

  • Coffee and café operators

  • Pub, club, and bar businesses

  • Foodservice suppliers

  • Hospitality companies

  • Strategy and innovation teams

  • Market intelligence professionals

  • Investors and consultants

How Companies Use This Foodservice Market Analysis

Restaurant operators and hospitality businesses use this report to understand changing consumer preferences, evaluate channel performance, and identify new growth opportunities across the global foodservice industry.

Foodservice brands leverage the insights to optimize menu strategies, improve customer engagement, benchmark competitors, and refine expansion plans across quick-service, full-service, coffee shop, and bar formats.

Investors, consultants, and strategy teams also use the report to assess market potential, evaluate competitive positioning, and support long-term business planning within the global foodservice sector.

Reasons to Buy

Benchmark Your Strategy Against Leading Foodservice Operators

This report helps organizations compare their business performance against leading global foodservice brands and market trends.

It provides comparative insight into:

  • Consumer dining behavior

  • Foodservice channel performance

  • QSR and FSR market trends

  • Coffee shop and café strategies

  • Pub and bar sector developments

  • Competitive positioning

  • Menu and service innovation

  • Market growth opportunities

Built on Trusted GlobalData Foodservice Intelligence

GlobalData’s Global Foodservice Market Analysis report is built on proprietary consumer research, market intelligence, industry analysis, and comprehensive foodservice data covering global markets and major dining channels.

Trusted by restaurant operators, hospitality companies, investors, suppliers, and consultants, GlobalData delivers actionable intelligence that supports strategic planning, competitive benchmarking, and long-term business growth.

GlobalData’s foodservice analysts provide deep expertise across consumer behavior, hospitality trends, restaurant operations, and global foodservice market dynamics.

Unlock Opportunities in the Evolving Global Foodservice Industry

As consumer expectations continue to evolve and foodservice channels adapt through innovation, digital transformation, and changing dining habits, organizations that understand emerging market trends will be better positioned to capture growth, strengthen customer loyalty, and compete successfully across the global foodservice market.

McDonald’s
Roark Capital Group
Yum! Brands
Darden Restaurants
DineEquity
Starbucks
Dunkin’ Brands Group
Restaurant Brands International
Greene King
Stonegate Group
Heineken

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Report Guide

• Executive Summary

Profit Sector Metrics

• Overview

• Key Metric Highlights

• Value Share and Growth by Channel

• Outlets and Transactions Growth by Channel

• Operator Buying Volumes and Growth by Channel

• Outlet-Type and Owner-Type Growth Dynamics • Historic & Future Channel Performance Dynamics

Quick-Service Restaurant (QSR)

• Summary & Key Points

• Metrics

• Key Players

• Who?

• Why?

• What?

• Where?

• What Next?

Full-Service Restaurant (FSR)

• Summary & Key Points

• Metrics

• Key Players

• Who?

• Why?

• What?

• Where?

• What Next?

Coffee & Tea Shop

• Summary & Key Points

• Metrics

• Key Players

• Who?

• Why?

• What?

• Where?

• What Next?

Pub, Club & Bar

• Summary & Key Points

• Metrics

• Who?

• Why?

• What?

• Where?

• What Next?

Cost Sector Metrics

• Cost Operator Trends – Historic and Future Growth

• Data and Channel Share Breakdown

Region Deep-Dive

Appendix

Table

Profit Sector Metrics

Restaurant outlet types: value growth (CAGR 2023–28)

Restaurant owner types: value growth (CAGR 2023–28)

QSR: Metrics: Growth Dynamics

QSR: What? Food & Drink Split: Operator buying price value

FSR: Metrics: Growth Dynamics

FSR: What? Food & Drink Split: Operator buying price value

Coffee & Tea Shop: Metrics: Growth Dynamics

Coffee & Tea Shop: What? Food & Drink Split: Operator buying price value

Pub, Club & Bar: Metrics: Growth Dynamics

Pub, Club & Bar: What? Food & Drink Split: Operator buying price value

Cost Operators: Data and Channel Share Breakdown Americas: Profit Sector Metrics Americas: QSR Growth Dynamics Americas: FSR Growth Dynamics Americas: Coffee & Tea Shop Growth Dynamics Americas: Pub, Club & Bar Growth Dynamics Asia-Pacific: Profit Sector Metrics Asia-Pacific: QSR Growth Dynamics Asia-Pacific: FSR Growth Dynamics Asia-Pacific: Coffee & Tea Shop Growth Dynamics Asia-Pacific: Pub, Club & Bar Growth Dynamics Eastern Europe: Profit Sector Metrics Eastern Europe: QSR Growth Dynamics Eastern Europe: FSR Growth Dynamics Eastern Europe: Coffee & Tea Shop Growth Dynamics Eastern Europe: Pub, Club & Bar Growth Dynamics Middle East and Africa: Profit Sector Metrics Middle East and Africa: QSR Growth Dynamics Middle East and Africa: FSR Growth Dynamics Middle East and Africa: Coffee & Tea Shop Growth Dynamics Middle East and Africa: Pub, Club & Bar Growth Dynamics Western Europe: Profit Sector Metrics Western Europe: QSR Growth Dynamics Western Europe: FSR Growth Dynamics Western Europe: Coffee & Tea Shop Growth Dynamics Western Europe: Pub, Club & Bar Growth Dynamics

Figures

2023 value sales and channel shares

Historic and future performances (value performance)

Historic and future outlet number dynamics

Historic and future performances (transactions)

Profit channels’ historic and future buying volume performances (liter m)

Profit channels’ historic and future buying volume performances (kg m) Channel dynamics in the profit sector, 2018–23 Channel dynamics in the profit sector, 2023–28

Restaurant outlet types: 2023 value

Restaurant owner types 2023: value

QSR: Operator share of sales, 2023

How often do you consume food and drinks at QSRs? By age group

How often do you consume food and drinks at QSRs? By gender

Influential factors for frequent consumers on choice of food/drinks at QSR- always/often

Important factors for frequent consumers when deciding to make a purchase at QSR – essential/nice-to-have

QSR: Total profit sector OSP by channel 2023

QSR cuisine by number of outlets

QSR: Top cuisine by maturity – by number of outlets (listed on online platforms), 2024

QSR: Top five food dishes’ penetration in QSR, 2024

QSR: Top ten ingredients’ penetration in QSR, 2024

QSR by cuisine type, 2023 OSP

QSR by location type, 2023 OSP

FSR: Operator share of sales, 2023

How often do you consume food and drinks at FSRs? By age group

How often do you consume food and drinks at FSRs? By gender

Influential factors for frequent consumers on choice of food/drinks at FSR- always/often Importance of factors for frequent consumers when deciding to make a purchase at FSR – essential/nice to have Total Total profit sector OSP, by channel, 2023

FSR cuisine by number of outlets

FSR: Top cuisine by maturity – by number of outlets (listed on online platforms), 2024

FSR: Top five food dishes’ penetration in FSR, 2024

FSR: Top ten ingredients’ penetration in FSR, 2024

FSR by cuisine type, 2023 OSP

FSR by location type, 2023 OSP

Coffee & tea shop: Operator share of sales, 2023

How often do you consume food and drinks at coffee & tea shops? By age group

How often do you consume food and drinks at coffee & tea shops? By gender

Influential factors for frequent consumers on choice of food/drinks at coffee & tea shops – always/often

Important factors for frequent consumers when deciding to make a purchase at coffee & tea shops – essential/nice-to-have Coffee & Tea Shop: What? Starbucks: Case Study: Which of the following features has the greatest influence on your choice of food and drinks in the current situation? – How enjoyable or unique the product/service is Coffee & Tea Shop: What? Ted’s Coffee Company: Case Study: How important is the following factor while making a purchase? – Plant-based

Coffee & tea shop by location type, 2023 OSP

Pub, club & bar: Operator share of sales, 2023

How often do you consume food and drinks at pub, club & bar? By age group

How often do you consume food and drinks at pub, club & bar? By gender

Influential factors for frequent consumers on choice of food/drinks at pub, club & bar – always/often

Important factors for frequent consumers when deciding to make a purchase at pub, club & bar – essential/nice-to-have

Pub, club & bar by location type, 2023 OSP

Channel dynamics in the cost sector, 2023–28

Channel dynamics in the cost sector, 2023–28

Cost Operators: Data and Channel Share Breakdown

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