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Food service, bar sales slip in August

Despite the busiest summer ever for tourism on P.E.I., food service and bar sales were down on the Island in August.

Sales still well up over last summer

Kevin Yarr · CBC News ·
Restaurant and bar sales were down in August compared to July, but up over last year. (CBC)

Despite the busiest summer ever for tourism on P.E.I., food service and bar sales were down on the Island in August.

Seasonally adjusted sales fell 2.6 per cent as compared to July, according to figures released Monday by Statistics Canada.

The restaurant and bar sales are not entirely inconsistent with the tourism figures. Total overnight stays were down slightly in August when compared to July.

The picture is rosier when compared to 2015, with both July and August posting gains over last year. Seasonally adjusted sales for July and August combined were up 4.1 per cent.

Food service and bar sales (thousands of dollars)
July August
2015 18,828 18,870
2016 19,906 19,393

Food service and bar sales rose over $19 million in September of last year and have not fallen below that level since.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Yarr

Web journalist

Kevin Yarr is the early morning web journalist at CBC P.E.I. Kevin has a specialty in data journalism, and how statistics relate to the changing lives of Islanders. He has a BSc and a BA from Dalhousie University, and studied journalism at Holland College in Charlottetown. You can reach him at kevin.yarr@cbc.ca.

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