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Mexico’s restaurant sector expected to grow 6 percent this year

The restaurant sector, which has about 500,000 establishments in Mexico, will grow 6.0 percent this year, said Jose Luis Mier Díaz, the National Chamber of the Restaurant and Food Industry, Canirac.

In a press conference to announce the realization of the Expo Abastur 2017, he explained that the estimated value of the industry at the end of 2015 was about 243 billion pesos, with effect in 83 percent of the branches of economic activity, which implies 1.8 percent in the national Gross Domestic Product and 13 percent in the tourist.

He pointed out that seven out . . .

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