Since 2020, around 48,000 businesses nationwide have closed and 6,100 have filed for bankruptcy. The number of closures in 2023 was 14,000, higher than in the previous three years, but still below the pre-Corona level.
Caterers and food service providers were particularly hard hit (plus 67 percent) 88 percent of all insolvencies affect small companies with up to ten employees. 49 percent met young companies that were five years old or less. At the end of the year, experts estimated the number of restaurants, pubs, snack bars and cafés at more than 15,000.