Take-out

More and more households in Greece are relying on takeout, having food delivered as many as three times a week. Rising demand has also led to an increase in recent years of food service enterprises being established with the exclusive purpose of distributing ready meals, without having a dining area.

As of Thursday, August 1, food service enterprises will be obliged to use machines to issue receipts, such as a registered till or tax receipt printer.

The measure means that the still widespread custom of using handwritten receipts or order slips will not do anymore. 

A considerable section of the food service industry, from neighborhood kebab shops to luxurious restaurants and hotels, are gearing up to prepare special Christmas and New Year's meals for home delivery in a bid to claw back some of this year's losses.

The food and beverage sector, leading the service industry in Turkey with 2 million workers, has been knocked down as the restaurants and the cafes have been closed indefinitely due to the latest coronavirus measures.

Most restaurants have turned to takeouts, and loads of service workers have been dismissed, according to experts.

Several corporate categories have been left out of the support measures the government has announced to lessen the impact of the coronavirus epidemic, even though this support has been expanded. In most cases this concerns small and very small enterprises, which account for thousands of workers, as well as enterprises whose owners have no alternative source of income.

Turkey's authentic döner kebap has evolved from being cheap fast-food, mostly preferred by Europe's migrant communities, into a "food concept" that has dominated the world in an upward trend, French food geographer Pierre Raffard has said. 

Turkey's authentic döner kebap has evolved from being cheap fast-food, mostly preferred by Europe's migrant communities, into a "food concept" that has dominated the world in an upward trend, French food geographer Pierre Raffard has said. 

According to a survey conducted by IELKA (the Research Institute for Retail Consumer Goods), the economic crisis has brought about a change in the dietary patterns of the Greeks, who are ordering out less and eating at home more.