Margins and profitability in restaurant activities
5,113 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 2.2 % of every krone.
37 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.
The distribution
What companies in the industry earned
One tenth of companies fell below -11.7 %, and one tenth above 14.6 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 m | 2,074 | 0.4 % |
| 5 to 20 m | 2,484 | 2.8 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 513 | 6.4 % |
| over 100 m | 42 | 3.0 % |
Companies are split into revenue bands, with the median margin in each. Bands with fewer than ten companies are omitted, because the median becomes too unstable to show.
Geography
Where the companies are based
- Oslo1,128
- Bergen220
- Trondheim204
- Stavanger142
- Kristiansand S115
- Tromsø81
The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
9 of 5,113 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 0.2 %.
Only 9 companies in the industry have won a public contract since 2022. That is too few for us to say how large they are compared with the rest.
The 14 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Avinor AS9
- Kolumbus AS1
- Medietilsynet1
- Øvre Romerike Innkjøpssamarbeid1
- Universitetet i Stavanger1
Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.
Questions and answers
Common questions about restaurant activities
- What is a normal operating margin in restaurant activities?
- The median company kept 2.2 % of every krone. That means half of the 5,113 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in restaurant activities?
- The top third kept 10.8 % of every krone, against -6.5 % for the weakest third. The spread is 17 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in restaurant activities in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 5,113 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
- How many are loss-making in restaurant activities?
- 37 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in restaurant activities?
- Median revenue is 6.2 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 3.3 m kr and 11.2 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in restaurant activities?
- We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.
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