Australia - The Future of Foodservice to 2030
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Australia - The Future of Foodservice to 2030
Summary
This report provides an in-depth evaluation of the Australian foodservice market, including an analysis of the key issues impacting on the industry.
This report includes:
Over 2025-30, the channel is forecast to generate a 3.6% value CAGR, reaching AUD20.2 billion ($13.1 billion) by 2030. Transactions are projected to increase at a 1% CAGR, while average transaction value is expected to generate a CAGR of 2.6% over the same period.
Within alcoholic drinks, flavored alcoholic beverages emerged as the leading category, gaining OBP share from 7.2% in 2020 to 14% in 2025, while beer’s share decreased from 61.4% to 56.5% during the period. Standalone locations dominated the channel in 2025, accounting for 83.1% of value sales. The standalone location type accounted for 5,130 outlets in 2025.
Scope
Macro context:
Summary
This report provides an in-depth evaluation of the Australian foodservice market, including an analysis of the key issues impacting on the industry.
This report includes:
- Consumer insight and analysis to provide a clear view of prevailing need states, trends and demands of consumers, including segmentation analysis and channel preference, all fully supported by comprehensive market data and occasions and locations analytics.
- In-depth analysis of channel performance, detailing the winning formats, with supporting analysis to provide comprehensive understanding of the reasons behind success and failure.
- For each of four key profit sector channels - QSR, FSR, coffee and tea shops, and pubs, clubs and bars - a deep dive into the ‘who’, ‘why’, ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘what next’.
- Analysis of major market player performance, and how each player is meeting the needs of consumers and dealing with changing market demands, with supporting case studies on key menu, service and format innovations.
Over 2025-30, the channel is forecast to generate a 3.6% value CAGR, reaching AUD20.2 billion ($13.1 billion) by 2030. Transactions are projected to increase at a 1% CAGR, while average transaction value is expected to generate a CAGR of 2.6% over the same period.
Within alcoholic drinks, flavored alcoholic beverages emerged as the leading category, gaining OBP share from 7.2% in 2020 to 14% in 2025, while beer’s share decreased from 61.4% to 56.5% during the period. Standalone locations dominated the channel in 2025, accounting for 83.1% of value sales. The standalone location type accounted for 5,130 outlets in 2025.
Scope
Macro context:
- Understanding the wider economic and social trends within a country; key to providing background when looking into a specific industry.
- A number of foodservice channels have been grouped together to form the “profit sector”; these include accommodation, leisure, restaurants, retail, travel, workplace, and pub, club & bar. This section will first go through overall trends in the sector, then “deep dive” into each of the four key channels. These channels are quick-service restaurant (QSR), full-service restaurant (FSR), coffee & tea shop, and pub, club & bar. The report structure for each of these channels is explained below.
- A number of foodservice channels have been grouped together to form the “cost sector”; these include education, healthcare, military & civil defense, and welfare & services. This sector typically represents the state’s foodservice operators. This section of the report will go through overall trends in the sector.
- For each of these key profit sector channels, this report will “deep dive” into the performance of the channel. This will follow a summary of the channel, which will encapsulate everything within the section. The report section will then cover historic and forecast growth/decline; key players within the channel; consumer segment analysis; and a “who”, “why”, “what”, and “where” analysis (including, for some channels, case studies to bring key discussion points to life). It will finish with a look into the key drivers of future performance.
- For the overall cost sector channel, this report will provide an overview of the performance of the channel. The report section will cover historic and forecast growth/decline and will finish with a look into the data and channel share breakdown.
- Specific forecasts of the foodservice market over the next five years (2025-30) will give readers the ability to make informed business decisions through identifying emerging/declining markets.
- Consumer segmentation detailing the desires of known consumers among all major foodservice channels (QSR, FSR, coffee & tea shop, pub, club & bar) will allow readers understand the wants and needs of their target demographics.
Table of Contents
119 Pages
- Introduction
- Report Guide
- Executive Summary
- Consumer Trends
- Macroeconomic Context
- Macroeconomic Overview
- Trends Landscape and Consumer Behavior
- Profit Sector - Consumer Behavior
- Profit Sector Overview
- Profit Sector Metrics
- Value and Share by Channel
- Value Performance by Channel
- Outlet Dynamics by Channel
- Transaction Dynamics by Channel
- Operator Buying Volumes Performance by Channel
- Historic & Future Channel Performance Dynamics
- Outlet-Type & Owner-Type Growth Dynamics
- Profit Sector Analysis by Channel
- Quick-Service Restaurant (QSR)
- Market Overview
- Enablers and Inhibitors of Growth
- Leading Operators
- Challenger Profile
- Who?
- Why?
- What?
- Where?
- What Next?
- Full-Service Restaurant (FSR)
- Market Overview
- Enablers and Inhibitors of Growth
- Leading Operators
- Challenger Profile
- Who?
- Why?
- What?
- Where?
- What Next?
- Coffee & Tea Shop
- Market Overview
- Enablers and Inhibitors of Growth
- Leading Operators
- Challenger Profile
- Who?
- Why?
- What?
- Where?
- What Next?
- Pub, Club & Bar
- Market Overview
- Enablers and Inhibitors of Growth
- Who?
- Why?
- What?
- Where?
- What Next?
- Cost Sector Analysis by Channel
- Education
- Growth Dynamics
- What Next?
- Healthcare
- Growth Dynamics
- What Next?
- Military & Civil Defense
- Growth Dynamics
- What Next?
- Welfare & Services
- Growth Dynamics
- What Next?
- Appendix
- Channel Definitions
- Key Components - Market Intelligence
- About GlobalData
- List of Tables
- Profit Sector Metrics
- Restaurant outlet types: value growth (CAGR 2025-30)
- Restaurant owner types: value growth (CAGR 2025-30)
- QSR: Market Overview: Growth Dynamics
- QSR: What? Food & Drink Split
- FSR: Market Overview: Growth Dynamics
- FSR: What? Food & Drink Split
- Coffee & Tea Shop: Market Overview: Growth Dynamics
- Coffee & Tea Shop: What? Food & Drink Split
- Pub, Club & Bar: Market Overview: Growth Dynamics
- Pub, Club, & Bar: What? Food & Drink Split
- Cost Operators: Data and Channel Share Breakdown
- Education: Growth Dynamics
- Healthcare: Growth Dynamics
- Military & Civil Defense: Growth Dynamics
- Welfare & Services: Growth Dynamics
- List of Figures
- GDP per capita
- Consumer price inflation (%)
- Population (millions)
- Population by age group (%)
- Households’ share of income distribution, 2025
- Unemployment rate
- Which of the following features has the greatest influence on your choices of products/services in the current situation? “Always or often influences my choices
- How do you see your lifestyle evolving over the next three months - Eating out at restaurants?
- How often do you consume food and drinks at the following locations?
- How do consumers describe their spend at the following outlets?
- 2025 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)
- Profit channels’ historic and future buying volume performances (kg)
- Channel dynamics in the Australian profit sector, 2020-25
- Channel dynamics in the Australian profit sector, 2025-30
- Restaurant outlet types: 2025 value
- Restaurant owner types 2025: value
- QSR: Operator share of sales, 2025
- 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
- QSR: Annual household income distribution of frequent consumers
- Frequent users: In light of the rising cost of living, how have your shopping habits changed for each of the following types of product? (Eating and drinking out, on social occasions)
- Frequent users: How do you describe your spend on food/drinks at the following outlets? (QSR dine-in)
- QSR: Total profit sector OSP by channel 2025
- QSR cuisine by number of outlets
- QSR by cuisine type, 2025 OSP
- QSR: Top cuisine by maturity - by number of outlets (listed on online platforms), 2025
- QSR: Top five food dishes’ penetration in QSR, 2025
- QSR: Top 10 ingredients’ penetration in QSR, 2025
- Menu items penetration by price range, 2025
- Price change analysis, 2025
- QSR by location type, 2025 OSP
- FSR: Operator share of sales, 2025
- 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
- FSR: Annual household income distribution of frequent consumers
- Frequent users: In light of the rising cost of living, how have your shopping habits changed for each of the following types of product? (Eating and drinking out, on social occasions)
- Frequent users: How do you describe your spend on food/drinks at the following outlets? (FSR dine-in)
- Total profit sector OSP by channel, 2025
- FSR cuisine by number of outlets
- FSR by cuisine type, 2025 OSP
- FSR: Top cuisine by maturity - by number of outlets (listed on online platforms), 2025
- FSR: Top five food dishes’ penetration in FSR, 2025
- FSR: Top 10 ingredients’ penetration in FSR, 2025 Menu items penetration by price range, 2025
- Price change analysis, 2025
- FSR by location type, 2025 OSP
- Coffee & tea shop: Operator share of sales, 2025
- 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
- Coffee & tea shop: Annual household income distribution of frequent consumers
- Frequent users: In light of the rising cost of living, how have your shopping habits changed for each of the following types of product? (Eating and drinking out, on social occasions)
- Frequent users: How do you describe your spend on food/drinks at the following outlets? (coffee& tea shop dine-in) Menu items penetration by price range, 2025
- Price change analysis, 2025
- Coffee & tea shop by location type, 2025 OSP
- Pub, Club & Bar: Operator share of sales, 2025
- How often do you consume food and drinks at pub, club & bars? By age group
- How often do you consume food and drinks at pub, club & bars? By gender
- Pub, club & bars: Annual household income distribution of frequent consumers
- Frequent users: In light of the rising cost of living, how have your shopping habits changed for each of the following types of product? (Eating and drinking out, on social occasions)
- Frequent users: How do you describe your spend on food/drinks at the following outlets? (pub, club & bars) Menu items penetration by price range, 2025
- Price change analysis, 2025
- pub, club & bar by location type, 2025 OSP
- Channel dynamics in the Australian cost sector, 2020-25
- Channel dynamics in the Australian cost sector, 2025-30
- Cost Operators: Data and Channel Share Breakdown
- Australian population under 15 years
- Australian population aged 65+ years
- Value of military & civil defense foodservice (AUD million) by sub-channel, 2030
- Value (AUD million) by sub-channel type: 2020, 2025 & 2030
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