Independent service. Data from the Austrian company register.

ÖNACE 56: Food and beverage service activities

Section: Accommodation and food service activities. Assignment by Statistics Austria under ÖNACE 2025, not from the register.

Statistics Austria assigns 16,427 active companies in the register to ÖNACE division 56: Food and beverage service activities (as of 5 Nov 2026).

3,689 of them have a company page on firmenbuchdaten.at. The shares below refer to these 3,689.

Most have their seat in: Vienna 45 %, Lower Austria 13 %, Upper Austria 10 %.

Most common legal forms: GmbH 94 %, KG 5 %, OG 1 %.

Places with the most companies: Wien (1,658), Salzburg (148), Graz (136), Linz (103), Innsbruck (97).

3,522 have filed annual accounts with a size class, 36 of them as medium-sized or large.

The largest class is 56.11-1 Restaurants with 9,452 companies.

Largest classes

  • 56.11-1 Restaurants: 9,452
  • 56.11-3 Coffee-houses: 2,473
  • 56.11-2 Refreshment and take away stands: 2,309
  • 56.30-0 Beverage serving activities: 1,225
  • 56.21-0 Event catering activities: 346

Food and beverage service activities: companies, larger first

Datenquelle: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (Statistics Austria), register number to ÖNACE assignment, CC BY 4.0, as of 5 Nov 2026. Source: Austrian company register (Firmenbuch), Republic of Austria, represented by the BMJ, open data under CC BY 4.0.