{"title":"Restaurant and food-serving services market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/553-restaurant-and-food-serving-services","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"553","label":"Restaurant and food-serving services"},"updated":"2026-11-11","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 16 supply contracts for restaurant and food-serving services through award notices on TED; the 1 of them that state a value (6.3%) add up to €253,087, a floor rather than the full contract value.","facts":["Since November 2023, 27 companies have won 52 public supply contracts for restaurant and food-serving services in Germany, in 43 award notices from 37 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 51.9% of all awards.","40.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":52,"awardNotices":43,"winningCompanies":27,"publicBuyers":37,"awardsWithValue":5,"awardedValueEur":3020221,"localAwards":52,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.5192307692307693,"singleBidAwards":21,"awardsWithKnownBids":52,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":16,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":360182},{"year":2025,"awards":16,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":253087},{"year":2026,"awards":17,"awardNotices":16,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":2406952}]},"imports":null,"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Germany — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €864 billion in 2025, 19.1% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":863609000000,"percentOfGdp":19.1,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":38,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Restaurant and food-serving services market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/553-restaurant-and-food-serving-services, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 11 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}