The Corner Office is diving deeper into the nuanced granularity of job growth in the UK. Today we focus on the food service industry! In the last three years (2010-2013), this delicious sector has gained an additional 120,108 jobs – a growth of 9 per cent.
While beverage service activities have declined by 11,377 jobs, restaurants, event catering and other food service activities have all increased significantly. The real growth came in 2011, when the sector added 73,542 jobs.
Most of these jobs are bar staff (285,274 employed in industry), kitchen and catering assistants (279,391), waiters/waitresses (243,987) and chefs/cooks (188,023).