Three hundred and twenty-five food-and-drink firms across nine sub-sectors. The biggest cohorts: 92 restaurants (weighted to private dining and seafood), 59 licensed pubs and bars, 56 takeaways, and 53 producers — butchers, bakers, brewers, distillers, dairies. Forty-seven cafés sit mid-table; ten wholesalers close the tail. —
302 organisations are counted with Food & Drink as their primary sector — 9% of everything with a sector on record, and the 4th largest of 16. An estimated 86% of the sector is counted, measured against an independent listing rather than assumed.
The 325 listed on this page and the 302 counted above are different claims, not a discrepancy: this page lists everyone who works in Food & Drink; the census counts those whose primary sector it is.
A capability on record for 198 of 302 Food & Drink organisations (66%)
| By group | Organisations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dining & occasions | 128 | 65% |
| Takeaway & street food | 96 | 48% |
| Drinks & bar | 61 | 31% |
| Catering & private chefs | 32 | 16% |
| Bakery, cakes & sweet treats | 30 | 15% |
| Agriculture & horticulture | 27 | 14% |
| Food & drink retail | 14 | 7% |
| Fishing & aquaculture | 6 | 3% |
| Marine trades & services | 1 | 1% |
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.
142 of the 198 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (72%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes.
The full Food & Drink chapter — sub-sectors, parishes, capabilities, digital presence and coverage →
Ninety-two restaurants island-wide — 52 in St Peter Port alone, with seafood (35) and private-dining (38) the defining clusters.
Fifty-nine licensed venues across the Bailiwick — heavily weighted to St Peter Port (35), with the oldest trading since 1700.
Fifty-six takeaways island-wide — 12 Chinese, 11 pizza, 10 Indian, with a Thai cluster and six dedicated fried-chicken shops.
Fifty-three producers — butchers, bakers, brewers, distillers and dairies, with nine offering farm tours and seven in wholesale supply.
Forty-seven cafés, 24 in St Peter Port — weighted toward lunch counters (16), takeaway (15), and cakes and patisserie (12).
Twenty-five specialist food shops — wine and spirits merchants lead, alongside chocolatiers, sweet shops, and one 1971 wholefoods store.
Seventeen caterers and event outfits — oldest Bonboniera Occasions (1982), newest Artisan Catering (2023); eight lead on event catering.
Eleven beachside kiosks — three each in Vale and Castel, two in St Martin, one in Torteval. Crab rolls and Guernsey Dairy the spine.
Ten wholesale firms supplying Guernsey's trade — three in catering supply, two in drinks, oldest trading since 1830.
Tagged in Food & Drink but not in one of the sectors above.