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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 4 of 16

Food & Drink

306 organisations are counted with Food & Drink as their primary sector — 9% of everything with a sector on record, and the 4th largest of 16. A further 23 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

As of 30 September 2026⧉ Cite this chapterBrowse the Food & Drink directory← The whole census

The count

306

organisations counted with Food & Drink as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.

329Work in it at all
10Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
201With capabilities mapped
13Capability domains

Coverage

#coverage ⧉

How complete is this sector’s count?

306 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 86%

An estimated 86% of this sector’s organisations are counted — the 4th-highest measured coverage of the 16 sectors.

Every count in this chapter is a floor, never a total.

How coverage is measured →

Headline figures

#headlines ⧉

The figures you can quote

The figures in this chapter that clear the citable bar — coverage high enough, count large enough, denominator named. A figure that does not clear it appears further down as a chart, badged, or not at all.

The largest kind of Food & Drink organisation on record85This attribute is on record for 306 of 306 organisations (100%)Restaurants — 28% of the sector, ahead of Cafés & Coffee Shops (46) and Food Producers (43).
Share of parish-known Food & Drink based in St Peter Port1 in 2A parish on record for 267 of 306 organisations (87%)148 of the 267 whose parish is on record — a concentration of 1.29 against the parish's share of everything counted, the 3rd-lowest parish concentration of the 9 sectors where it can be counted.
Food & Drink organisations with a website of their own62%Counted over all 306 active organisations191 of 306, against 67% island-wide — 5 points below the island rate, the 4th-lowest own-site rate of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.
Organisations with what they do resolved to the capability graph66%A capability on record for 201 of 306 organisations (66%)201 of 306, against 71% island-wide, the 2nd-lowest capability coverage of the 13 sectors where it can be counted; a median of 6 capabilities each against 3 island-wide. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

What stands out

#signature ⧉

What this sector actually does

A sector is a label; a capability is a service someone published and we resolved to the graph. 66% of the sector carry at least one, and the typical one among them carries 6 capabilities.

By group#signature-capability-groups ⧉

What the sector is on record for

A capability on record for 201 of 306 Food & Drink organisations (66%)

Dining & occasions134 67%Drinks & bar101 50%Takeaway & street food100 50%Catering & private chefs35 17%Bakery, cakes & sweet treats35 17%Agriculture & horticulture22 11%Food & drink retail14 7%Fishing & aquaculture6 3%

Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

155 of the 201 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (77%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes.

What goes with what#signature-capability-pairs ⧉

Capabilities held together

A capability on record for 201 of 306 Food & Drink organisations (66%)

Organisations073
LunchTakeaway & c…DinnerBar & loungeFunctions &…BreakfastFood deliveryPrivate dini…Seafood rest…Sunday lunch…CocktailsSet menusLunchTakeaway & c…DinnerBar & loungeFunctions &…BreakfastFood deliveryPrivate dini…Seafood rest…Sunday lunch…CocktailsSet menus

Each cell counts the organisations on record for both capabilities. The diagonal is blank on purpose — an organisation paired with itself is not a pair. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

Sub-sectors

#composition ⧉

Restaurants leads, on 85 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 23 organisations outside this count work in Food & Drink alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.

Primary sub-sector#composition-l2 ⧉

Food & Drink by sub-sector

Counted over all 306 active Food & Drink organisations

Restaurants85 28%Cafés & Coffee Shops46 15%Food Producers43 14%Pubs & Bars38 12%Takeaways & Fast Food38 12%Specialist Food Shops18 6%Catering & Events15 5%Kiosks10 3%Food & Drink Wholesale9 3%Direct at sector level4 1%

Counts each organisation's primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector, and each is the roll call the directory lists under that name.

4 organisations are classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar. 23 further organisations work in Food & Drink alongside another sector and are not in these bars: each is counted in the sub-sector of the sector it calls its main line. "Works in", never "is in".

Parishes

#parishes ⧉

St Peter Port holds 148 Food & Drink organisations

1 in 2 of the 267 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 11 on Alderney, 12 on Sark and 5 on Herm.

Headcount#parishes-count ⧉

Food & Drink organisations by parish

A parish on record for 267 of 306 Food & Drink organisations (87%)

Organisations0148
St Peter P…148St Sampson25Vale25Castel18St Saviour6St Pierre du Bois4Torteval2Forest16St Martin15St Andrew8

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

Guernsey parishes only; Alderney, Sark and Herm are counted in the island split above.

11 Guernsey organisations in this sector have no parish on record — a real gap, not an exclusion, and the map fills in as verification proceeds; a further 28 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Concentration#parishes-lq ⧉

Where Food & Drink is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 267 of 306 Food & Drink organisations (87%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…1.29St Sampson0.71Vale0.72Castel0.80St Saviour0.70St Pierre du Bois—Torteval—Forest1.79St Martin0.64St Andrew0.87

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

The same island, drawn on a location quotient: this sector's share of a parish against its share of the island. Hatched parishes hold too few of this sector to compare at all. Parishes holding fewer than 30 of this sector are drawn and tabled but never named in a sentence: a quotient over a handful of organisations moves on one new record, and a superlative that flips that easily is not one.

Founding years

#age ⧉

How old it is

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Founding era#age-eras ⧉

Food & Drink organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 125 of 306 Food & Drink organisations (41%)

On record for 41% — indicative
0204060pre-18001950–792000–09432020s

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Half of those with a founding year began after 2017. The island's median is 2006.

Founded in the 2020s42A founding year on record for 125 of 306 organisations (41%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.On record for 41% — indicative

Capabilities

#capabilities ⧉

The typical mapped organisation holds 6 capabilities, against 3 island-wide

66% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 13 domains, against 71% island-wide, the 2nd-lowest capability coverage of the 13 sectors where it can be counted. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

The busiest nodes#capability-nodes ⧉

What the most organisations are on record for

A capability on record for 201 of 306 Food & Drink organisations (66%)

Lunch94 47%Takeaway & collection92 46%Dinner85 42%Bar & lounge73 36%Functions & parties57 28%Breakfast50 25%Food delivery45 22%Private dining40 20%Seafood restaurant35 17%Sunday lunch & roasts34 17%Cocktails29 14%Set menus26 13%

An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations.

How central is it?#capability-roles ⧉

Is this what they do, or one of many things they do?

A positioning note on record for 187 of 306 Food & Drink organisations (61%)

Core to the business143 76%This is what they do96 51%One of many services89 48%A sideline63 34%

The roles overlap: one business can be “this is what they do” for one capability and “a sideline” for another, so these rows add up past the number of businesses.

Cuisines offered

#specific ⧉

Cuisines offered

On record for 160 of 306 — indicative, so the chart is drawn and badged rather than quoted.

Cuisines offered#sector-specific ⧉

Cuisines offered — Food & Drink

Cuisines offered on record for 160 of 306 Food & Drink organisations (52%)

On record for 52% — indicative
British44 28%Seafood38 24%Burgers21 13%Pizza21 13%Steak and Grill17 11%Chinese13 8%Italian13 8%Mediterranean13 8%European12 8%French10 6%Indian10 6%Thai10 6%Modern British7 4%International6 4%Kebabs6 4%Pub Food6 4%Asian5 3%Fish and Chips5 3%Fried Chicken5 3%American4 3%

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

Online presence

#digital ⧉

62% of Food & Drink organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 5 points below the island rate, the 4th-lowest own-site rate of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. The gap is the robust part: the sector’s own rate is measured over the organisations we have found, and the ones still missing are disproportionately the web-invisible.

Sector against island#digital-vs-island ⧉

Digital presence, this sector and the island

Counted over all 306 active Food & Drink organisations

Food & DrinkThe island
0%50%100%Has a website62%67%Website on a .gg domain27%32%Links a social account of any kind50%61%Links a Facebook page47%58%Links an Instagram account23%39%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between food & drink and the island is in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

Each row is a share of all organisations counted, in the sector and island-wide — not a share of those with a website, so the rows are comparable with one another.

Food & Drink organisations with a website of their own191Counted over all 306 active Food & Drink organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain1 in 2Counted over all 306 active Food & Drink organisations98 of 191, against 40% of the 2,432 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.

Opening hours

#hours ⧉

The sector’s working week

68% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 95% on a Saturday. The median week runs 50 hours.

Seven days, twenty-four hours#hours-clock ⧉

Food & Drink organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 184 of 306 Food & Drink organisations (60%)

Organisations open0149
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 262 hold hours of some shape, of which 184 resolve to a weekly grid and 78 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.

Newly verified

#pulse ⧉

The last 90 days

+108
Food & Drink organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
2
recorded as no longer trading in the window

Use these numbers

#use ⧉

Free to reuse, with attribution

Every section has a stable anchor and every count traces to published evidence — licence CC BY 4.0, credit “Island Graph” with a link.

census.csvsector × parishcensus.jsonevery aggregatedata.jsonthe Q3 2026 editionAbout the dataFull methodologyPress desk
Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Food & Drink, Q3 2026 edition, island.gg/census/2026-q3/food-drink — frozen 30 September 2026.

The whole Q3 2026 edition →

How this chapter counts

#method ⧉

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 306 active organisations whose primary sector is Food & Drink — 9% of the 3,582 with a primary sector on record; the wider 329 who work in Food & Drink at all are counted in every sector they work in, and are used only where a sentence says “works in”. Each module then divides by what is actually on record for it — a parish for 267, a founding year for 125, a capability resolved to the graph for 201, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 184 — and those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 86% on 30 September 2026, by capture–recapture against Google's business listings for the Bailiwick, with every organisation that was itself added from those listings left out of the comparison so the two counts stay independent. Every count above is a floor.

This chapter’s row on the evidence map — what each module here may and may not claim →

Full methodology — populations, tiers, biases and how coverage is measured →