‘Christmas afternoon’ and business meals increase the turnover of bars at Christmas by 5%

The celebration of appointments already established such as the so-called “good afternoon” and Christmas dinners and meals will be left in the restaurants during these dates an increase of between 4% and 5%compared to the previous year, although businesses look at the evolution of time, which conditions consumption. The restoration face with optimism the Christmas campaignan event in which, in addition to being at home, Spaniards increasingly choose to spend their central dates – such as December 25 and 31 – in bars and restaurants.

The Secretary General of Hospitality of Spain, Emilio Gallego, has confirmed the good forecasts for these dates, although its evolution will depend, above all, on how the weather behaves, an aspect that strongly conditions the Spanish consumption in bars and restaurants. Furthermore, he celebrated that “the hospitality industry this year is having good christmas and how the celebration dates have fallen has a lot of influence. Holidays are very widespreadfall during the week and this means that they take full advantage, especially on the weekends themselves.

Likewise, it has concentrated that more and more restaurants who decide open and offer a service, usually with a closed menu, during the most special dates of Christmas. And at the same time, more and more families are deciding to celebrate their lunches and dinners in these establishments, he stated.

This trend can be influenced by price increase in the shopping basket, to which is added the “work” it takes to cook and, many times, the “tension” and “stress” What it means to organize these Christmas menus at home.

The “inconvenience” of having to hire

The increase in demand at Christmas also leaves the restaurant business with the need to increase templates, a complex issue for the sector since it represents a cost increase for business, the general secretary of the employers’ association has lamented. “These types of celebrations are always supplemented with what we call the ‘extras’. It is true that since we had the reform of the Workers’ Statute and the discontinuous fixed term was incorporated, it has added rigidity and an extra cost,” he added.

Christmas menus in data

According to the analysis of the Christmas campaign prepared by Hospitality of Spain, 42.1% of consumers choose on this date to menus between 30 and 45 euros, followed by 31.6% who choose a menu between 45 and 55 euros. Only 7.9% of consumers choose a Christmas menu of more than 75 euros, while the rest range between 55 and 65 euros.

For the majority of businesses, the prices of these menus have increased, 58.8% of those surveyed by the employers consider that their price has increased compared to the previous year; 40% believe that they have remained the same and 1.3% that they have decreased. Likewise, the feeling of the sector points to a stabilization in reserves For these dates: 45.2% of those surveyed by the employers believe that there are the same reserves as in 2024, 38.7% consider that there are less and 16.1% that there are more.