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The Guernsey Business CensusSector chapter

Food & Drink

298 organisations are counted with Food & Drink as their primary sector — 9% of everything with a sector on record, and the 5th largest of 16. A further 58 work in it alongside another sector.

As of 3 September 2026⧉ Cite this chapterBrowse the Food & Drink directory← The whole census
298

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

356Work in it at all
10Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
191With capabilities mapped
11Capability domains

Coverage

#coverage ⧉

How complete is this sector’s count?

298 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 86%

An estimated 86% of this sector’s organisations are counted. The figure is a measurement, not a target: it comes from the same independent comparison the whole census is measured by, restricted to this sector’s rows.

Island-wide, the Bailiwick’s true trading population is estimated at 4,877–5,990, measured on 3 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.

A sector’s coverage is published as a percentage only. The stratum carries no confidence interval, so a sector population would be a point estimate dressed as a range — and the organisations invisible to both the census and the comparison listing pull every such estimate down.

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

Numbers you can print

#headlines ⧉

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 record83This attribute is on record for 298 of 298 organisations (100%)Restaurants — 28% of the sector, ahead of Cafés & Coffee Shops (47) and Food Producers (40).Share-card ready
Share of parish-known Food & Drink based in St Peter Port1 in 2A parish on record for 258 of 298 organisations (87%)143 of the 258 whose parish is on record — a concentration of 1.29 against the parish's share of everything counted.Share-card ready
Food & Drink organisations with a website of their own61%Counted over all 298 active organisations183 of 298, against 67% island-wide — 6 points below the island rate. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.Share-card ready
Organisations with what they do resolved to the capability graph64%A capability on record for 191 of 298 organisations (64%)191 of 298, against 71% island-wide; 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.Share-card ready

The signature

#signature ⧉

What this sector actually does

A sector is a label; a capability is a service someone published and we resolved to the graph. 64% of the sector carry at least one, and the typical one among them carries 6.

By group#signature-capability-groups ⧉

What the sector is on record for

A capability on record for 191 of 298 Food & Drink organisations (64%)

Dining & occasions128 67%Drinks & bar95 50%Takeaway & street food94 49%Bakery, cakes & sweet treats33 17%Catering & private chefs32 17%Agriculture & horticulture20 10%Food & drink retail13 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.

148 of the 191 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 191 of 298 Food & Drink organisations (64%)

Organisations071
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.

What it is made of

#composition ⧉

Restaurants leads, on 83 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 58 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 298 active Food & Drink organisations

Restaurants83 28%Cafés & Coffee Shops47 16%Food Producers40 13%Takeaways & Fast Food39 13%Pubs & Bars37 12%Specialist Food Shops15 5%Catering & Events14 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. Every row links to its full, named roll call.

4 are classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar.

Where it happens

#parishes ⧉

St Peter Port holds 143 of them

1 in 2 of the 258 whose parish is on record. Beyond Guernsey, Alderney 12, Sark 12, Herm 5.

Headcount#parishes-count ⧉

Food & Drink organisations by parish

A parish on record for 258 of 298 Food & Drink organisations (87%)

Organisations0143
St Peter P…143St Sampson25Vale25Castel18St Saviour4St Pierre du Bois4Torteval2Forest14St 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 29 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 258 of 298 Food & Drink organisations (87%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…1.29St Sampson0.73Vale0.74Castel0.84St Saviour—St Pierre du Bois—Torteval—Forest1.63St Martin0.67St Andrew0.93

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.

How old it is

#age ⧉

Half of those with a founding year began after 2017

The island's median is 2006. 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 123 of 298 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.

Founded in the 2020s43A founding year on record for 123 of 298 organisations (41%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.On record for 41% — indicative

What they can do

#capabilities ⧉

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

64% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 11 domains, against 71% 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.

The busiest nodes#capability-nodes ⧉

What the most organisations are on record for

A capability on record for 191 of 298 Food & Drink organisations (64%)

Lunch91 48%Takeaway & collection87 46%Dinner83 43%Bar & lounge68 36%Functions & parties54 28%Breakfast46 24%Food delivery43 23%Private dining39 20%Seafood restaurant35 18%Sunday lunch & roasts32 17%Cocktails27 14%Set menus26 14%

An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations. Every row links to its roll call.

How central is it?#capability-roles ⧉

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

A positioning note on record for 177 of 298 Food & Drink organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
Core to the business138 78%This is what they do91 51%One of many services85 48%A sideline58 33%

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

The most distinctive chart in the chapter, and one of the least complete: it sits below the citable bar, so it is drawn and badged rather than quoted.

Cuisines offered#sector-specific ⧉

Cuisines offered — Food & Drink

Cuisines offered on record for 154 of 298 Food & Drink organisations (52%)

On record for 52% — indicative
British44 29%Seafood38 25%Burgers21 14%Pizza20 13%Steak and Grill17 11%Italian13 8%Mediterranean13 8%Chinese12 8%European12 8%Indian10 6%Thai10 6%French8 5%Kebabs7 5%Modern British7 5%Pub Food6 4%Asian5 3%Fish and Chips5 3%Fried Chicken5 3%American4 3%International4 3%

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

The sector online

#digital ⧉

61% of Food & Drink have a website of its own

Against 67% island-wide — 6 points below the island rate. 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 298 active Food & Drink organisations

Food & DrinkThe island
0%50%100%Has a website61%67%Website on a .gg domain27%32%Links a social account of any kind54%61%Links a Facebook page49%59%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 own183Counted over all 298 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 298 active Food & Drink organisations96 of 183, against 40% of the 2,470 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.

When it is open

#hours ⧉

The sector’s working week

69% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 95% on a Saturday. The median week runs 49 hours.

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

Food & Drink organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 178 of 298 Food & Drink organisations (60%)

On record for 60% — indicative
Organisations open0143
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 251 hold hours of some shape, of which 178 resolve to a weekly grid and 73 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.

The register is alive

#pulse ⧉

The last 90 days

A census that was true in January is folklore by August. This chapter re-checks itself continuously.

+110
Food & Drink organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
1
recorded as no longer trading in the window

Use these numbers

#use ⧉

Free to reuse, with attribution

Journalists, researchers, sector bodies and officials are welcome to these figures. Every section has a stable anchor, and every count traces to published evidence. License: CC BY 4.0 — credit “Island Graph” with a link.

census.csvsector × parishcensus.jsonevery aggregateAbout the dataFull methodologyPress desk
Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Food & Drink, island.gg/census/food-drink — as of 3 September 2026.

The two files are the whole census, not this chapter; the figures here are this sector’s slice of them. The whole census →

Denominators, briefly

#method ⧉

This chapter counts over the 298 active organisations whose primary sector is Food & Drink — 9% of the 3,407 with a primary sector on record. The wider 356 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 divides by what is actually on record for it: a parish for 258, a founding year for 123, a capability resolved to the graph for 191, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 178. 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 3 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.

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented. 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.

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