Full-service restaurants
Filed accounts
NACE 56111 · financial year 2025 · 11,444 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 24.0% | 29.8% | 27.9% | 26.9% | 28.5% | 28.5% |
| Median net result | €3,905 | €17,550 | €5,160 | €5,961 | €9,262 | €7,223 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 12-11-2026 | L'ECAILLER DU PALAIS ROYAL BELGIUM
BE 0474.079.283 |
| 12-11-2026 | EATALIAN FOODLOVERS
BE 0678.920.816 |
| 12-11-2026 | Wijnants, Kevin
BE 1010.613.405 · sole trader · Heers |
| 12-11-2026 | AROMA
BE 1013.394.038 |
| 12-11-2026 | AB Concepts
BE 1029.998.161 |
| 10-11-2026 | Beuckels, Cindy
BE 0679.356.029 · sole trader · Nieuwpoort |
| 10-11-2026 | Piggy's Crabs
BE 0782.216.710 |
| 10-11-2026 | Certi
BE 0819.604.963 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 16,630 of 20,104 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 56 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 56111 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 LUNCH GARDENEvere 740 FTEfinancial year 2023
- 2 ODASBruges 518 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Lunch Garden BelgiumZaventem 309 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 LES AUBERGES DE JEUNESSEBrussels 127 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 GROUPE LEON VANLANCKER 1893Brussels 115 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 5,513 companies- 302 Hotels and catering 5,396
- 201 Independent retail 57
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 52
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 31
- 119 Food trade 24
- 124 Construction 15
- 118 Food industry 12
- 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 11
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- 314 Hairdressing and beauty care 8
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 8
- 333 Tourist attractions 5
- 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 4
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 4
- 126 Furnishing and woodworking 3
- 144 Agriculture 3
- 202 White-collar workers in food retail 3
- 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 3
- 121 Cleaning 2
- 140 Transport and logistics 2
- 303.03 Film industry 2
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 56: Food and beverage service
Related activities
2 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services56112 | 21,390 | 1,884 | 470 | 13,131 |
| Mobile food service activities56120 | 1,071 | 524 | 1 | 22 |
Bankruptcies per year in division 56
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 1,809 | 1,908 | 2,092 | 1,952 | 1,996 | 1,338 | 1,007 | 1,581 | 1,958 | 1,914 | 1,957 | 1,408 |
| Jobs lost | 3,728 | 4,566 | 4,072 | 4,374 | 4,104 | 2,930 | 2,346 | 3,083 | 4,307 | 4,108 | 5,415 | 3,422 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 56
3,234 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €43,000 | €34,500 to €51,000 | 1,742 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €43,700 | €35,600 to €50,700 | 1,421 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €47,200 | €38,100 to €52,600 | 59 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 56Measured nationally: Of 108,810 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 14 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
15 of the 38,992 companies in NACE division 56 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (3), United Kingdom (3) and Netherlands (3). Together they employ 3,089 of the division's 59,312 FTE: 5.2%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €377.1m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €32.0m paid
- Federal transfers 1.0m amount as published
- EU budget €5.4m attributed share
- EU research €786,528 EU contribution
Insights on Full-service restaurants
Balance sheet and result. 24.7% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. The median net result of €7,223 is below Belgium's €16,468. Solvency of 28.5% is below Belgium's 46.1%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 1.6% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 26.5 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. No NACE division counts more.
Inflow and structure. 17.3% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 7.4 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 51% of the 87 NACE divisions. This activity holds 33.6% of the registrations of Food and beverage service.
Staff and filing. 50.8% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.5% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 1,809 of the 26,645 FTE: 6.8%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 24.0% in financial year 2020 to 28.5% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €3,905 in financial year 2020 to €7,223 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 14-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 56111 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,430 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 700,464 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.