Fluctuating workforce

This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2024/10

According to Károly Zerényi, presidential advisor of MVI, about one third of sales concentrated to the summer period (June-August).

Food sales and number of employees

Food sales accounted for around three quarters of the sales revenue of restaurants before the coronavirus pandemic. With the lifting of the pandemic-related restrictions, the weight of food sales has decreased from 90% in Q1 2021 to 79% in 2023. In 2023 the accommodation and food service sector employed 179.5 thousand people (about three quarters of them in hotels and restaurants), which was 3.8% of the national economy as a whole. After the post-pandemic reopening, the number of people employed had gradually increased, but in Q3 and Q4 2023 it decreased again due to economic difficulties and business closures.

The monthly average gross wage have grown by 17 per cent