Café, restaurant traffic in Ukraine 10% higher than pre-war, driven by business in west
Cafes and restaurants in the north, south and east of Ukraine are still having tough time (Photo:unsplash)
Ukraine may be a country at war, but it hasn’t stopped Ukrainians going to restaurants and cafes.
In fact, countrywide, attendance in cafes and restaurants is up by 10% since Russia launched its full-scale invasion and war on Feb. 24 last year, the Restorator Reve restaurateurs' group on Telegram said on Feb. 24, publishing the results of a survey.
Numbers vary depending on location, of course – the number of transactions in Kyiv cafes and restaurants has dropped by 15% compared to the same week of the previous year, before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.
But cafe traffic in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, where many Ukrainians relocated after Russia invaded parts of the center, east and south of the country, has grown by 25% compared to pre-war figures.
Despite the ongoing war, in February cafe traffic was higher in all western and majority of central regions of Ukraine compared to pre-war figures. The number of transactions has grown 17% in Zakarpattia Oblast, 16% in Kirovohrad Oblast and 14% in Chernivtsi Oblast.
But cafes and restaurants in the north, south and east of Ukraine are still having tough times. The number of transactions in Kherson Oblast is still 62% less that it was the last year.
In Kharkiv Oblast the number is 45% down, in Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk oblasts they are down by 30%, and in Luhansk Oblast the fall is 24%.
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