Macau had 2,284 eateries and “watering holes” at the end of last year, 172 more than a year earlier, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
According to the bureau, local-style cafés and congee and noodle shops accounted for 42 percent of the total number of restaurants and other kinds of eating and drinking places. Chinese restaurants made up 25.5 percent of the total.
Restaurants, bars and similar businesses reported total receipts of 10.04 billion patacas last year, up 4.6 percent year-on-year. Expenditure rose 8.3 percent to 9.87 billion patacas.
