The companies that sell pizza, fried kebabs and take-away food in general in Italy have reached 40 thousand, almost 6 thousand more in just 5 years, for a growth of almost 17%. This is what emerges from an analysis of Unioncamere-InfoCamere on data from the Italian Business Register between 30 June 2013 and 30 June 2018. At the regional level, it is Lombardia to record the highest number of take-away and take-away pizzerias in Italy (6.176), followed by Lazio (4.164) and fromEmilia Romagna (3.902). But in relative terms, in the last five years it has been the Trentino Alto Adige to have achieved the most marked growth (+27%), followed by Sicilia (+24%) and from Lombardia (+ 22%).
At the provincial level, the primacy in terms of number of companies in the sector goes to Roma, where rotisseries and chip shops exceed 3 businesses, followed by Napoli e Milano which stand at 2 realities. The three provinces are also at the top of the ranking in terms of the increase in activities belonging to this sector between 2013 and 2018: +634 in Rome; +516 Milan and +433 Naples. Even in the smallest provincial realities, however, citizens can now count on a growing network of businesses specializing in take-away food. For example, people from Bolzano have twice as many establishments available (+52,7%) compared to June 2013, those from Belluno 46,2% and Pisa 42,8%. Increases of more than 30% concern, in addition to the province of Milan, also those of Palermo and Livorno.
The dynamism of public establishments, however, does not hide the many difficulties that businesses still face. In a sector characterized by an ever-increasing rate of competition, not everyone is able to keep their business on its feet 5 years after its birth. Of the companies born in 2013, half lowered the shutter within the first five years of activity and one out of 3 was unable to go beyond the third yearHowever, this is not the case everywhere: in some Italian cities the numbers improve significantly. In Sondrio, Aosta, Belluno and Terni the mortality levels of the activities registered in 2013 are more than 10 percentage points lower than the national average (45,6%).
On the other hand, in Isernia, Frosinone, Foggia and Brindisi, pizzerias and rotisseries seem to have a more difficult life: here 2 out of 3 establishments do not pass the five-year test. Shops of this type still represent the first form of investment for foreign communities and especially for that non-EU which, with almost 9 businesses, saw its number increase by over 2 in the period under review (36% of the entire increase in businesses in the sector), corresponding to a percentage change of more than 30% (against 17% recorded by all the activities in the sector).
Geographically, the most attractive region for the settlement of non-EU entrepreneurs it is Lombardy with just over 3 units, followed at a long distance by Emilia-Romagna (almost 1.200 units) and Piedmont (896). Looking at the dynamics of the period 2013-2018, the area with the greatest percentage variation for non-EU initiatives was Campania (+60,5%) followed by the two islands, Sardinia and Sicily, with an increase of 51,7% .
Among the countries of origin of foreign entrepreneurs (with reference only to sole proprietorships, the only ones for which it is possible to associate nationality with the owner), the most represented is theEgypt, with 2 thousand sole proprietorships existing at the end of last June. On the other steps of the podium the communities of Pakistan e Turkey, with 790 and 533 exercises respectively. Podium confirmed by the three communities also for the growth in absolute terms, while the analysis of the increases in relative terms of the period brings to the fore some nationalities that are not taken for granted: this is the case of Afghanistan, which saw the number of pizzerias increase 4 times and takeaways in five years, or from Bangladesh, for which growth was over 80%.
