Public catering in 2025 brought more than 0.5 trillion rubles of added value to the economy

Public catering in 2025 brought more than 0.5 trillion rubles of added value to the economy

The catering sector brought more than half a trillion rubles to the Russian economy in 2025, the growth in four years turned out to be double, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Dmitry Vakrukov said at a press conference. "Gastronomy, or as we traditionally called it, catering, has long been a fairly large sector of the economy, a large segment of tourism.