Released: 2026-08-26
Food services and drinking places sales — Canada
$8.8 billion
June 2026
0.5% 
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — N.L.
$100.0 million
June 2026
0.7%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — P.E.I.
$39.1 million
June 2026
0.9%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — N.S.
$222.6 million
June 2026
3.6%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — N.B.
$151.8 million
June 2026
1.6%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — Que.
$1,684.0 million
June 2026
-0.0% 
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — Ont.
$3,464.0 million
June 2026
0.3%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — Man.
$252.0 million
June 2026
1.7%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — Sask.
$226.9 million
June 2026
2.3%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — Alta.
$1,152.0 million
June 2026
1.1%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — B.C.
$1,536.4 million
June 2026
0.5%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — Y.T.
$10.1 million
June 2026
-5.4%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — N.W.T.
$8.3 million
June 2026
-7.3%
(monthly change)
Food services and drinking places sales — Nvt.
$1.9 million
June 2026
2.0%
(monthly change)
Total sales in the food services and drinking places subsector increased 0.5% in June to $8.8 billion.
Non-seasonally adjusted prices for food purchased from restaurants were up 2.7% in June compared with June 2025. Unadjusted prices for alcoholic beverages served in licensed establishments increased 3.5% over the same period.
Chart 1 
Sales in food services and drinking places
Limited-service eating places drive gains
In June, the largest increase in sales in dollar terms came from limited-service eating places (+0.9%), followed by full-service restaurants (+0.4%). Drinking places (+2.7%) had the largest percentage increase, coinciding with the FIFA World Cup playing in many bars across the country. Sales at special food services (-1.6%) declined.
Sales increase in nine provinces
Sales increased in nine provinces in June, with the largest increase in dollar terms coming from Alberta (+1.1%).
World Cup
In June, Canada hosted 10 FIFA World Cup matches in Toronto and Vancouver, where teams from 15 overseas countries played. Total arrivals from these 15 countries were up 28.6% (+33,600) in June 2026 compared with the same month one year earlier. Sales at food services increased in Ontario (+0.3%) and British Columbia (+0.5%), the provinces that hosted the matches, as well as in most other provinces, where many Canadians watched the games from home or at bars and restaurants broadcasting the games. Sales at drinking places increased by 2.7% to $212.2 million, their highest value since January 2023.
Looking for more insight?
More information is available in the “Food Services and Drinking Places Sales” dashboard, where users can consult data on sales in food services and drinking places for Canada and by province and territory. This application allows users to compare provincial and territorial data through interactive maps and charts.
Note to readers
Unless otherwise noted, all data in this release are seasonally adjusted and expressed in current dollars. Seasonally adjusted data are data that have been modified to eliminate the effect of seasonal and calendar influences to allow for more meaningful comparisons of economic conditions from period to period. For more information on seasonal adjustment, see Seasonal adjustment: Concepts and interpretation, 2026.
Trend-cycle data are included in selected charts to complement the seasonally adjusted series. These data represent a smoothed version of the seasonally adjusted time series and provide information on longer-term movements, including changes in direction underlying the series. For information on trend-cycle data, see the page Trend-cycle estimation: Concepts, interpretation, and calculation, 2026.
Data for the current reference month are preliminary. Usually, unadjusted data are revised for the previous two months, and seasonally adjusted data are revised for the previous three months. Both seasonally adjusted data and trend-cycle estimates are subject to revision as additional observations become available. These revisions could be large and could even lead to a reversal of movement, especially for reference months near the end of the series or during periods of economic disruption.
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