our product offering SURF COAST SHIRE FOOD & DRINK AUDIT major CATEGORY # OF PROPERTIES % OF TOTAL Restaurants 66 36% Cafés 52 29% Takeaway/Fast Food 29 16% Bars, Pubs & Bistros 17 9% Dessert 8 4% Breweries, Distilleries 7 4% Bakery 3 4% Total 182 100% Major CATEGORY # OF PROPERTIES Reviews average nights per stay Breweries, Distilleries 5 652 50 Restaurants 59 12,886 50 Dessert 6 610 48 Cafés 48 8,393 46 Bakery 3 119 38 Takeaway/Fast Food 25 8,119 37 Bars, Pubs & Bistros 13 1,973 19 Total 159 32,752 44 Bakery category bars, pubs & Bistros takeaway/fast food breweries, distilleries cafés dessert restaurants 182 food and drink providers were identified for the Shire, equating to just over one-third of all food and drink product identified for the region. Restaurants make up the largest proportion of food and drink providers in the Shire (36%), followed by cafés (29%) and takeaway/fast food operators (16%). Restaurants rate well above the regional average (+50 for Surf Coast Shire compared with +43 for the region). Bars, pubs & bistros rate particularly low (+19), especially when compared with the regional average for this category of (+31). The Shire has the most hatted restaurants out of the LGAs in the region, these include Samesyn (Torquay) and Ipsos (Lorne). There used to be an additional hatted restaurant in Lorne (Coda) but this recently closed. Hours of operation generally throughout the region are noted as a particular concern regarding food and drink product through the region. For smaller towns, the offering is relevant to the size and desire of the towns, whilst for larger areas, there is a need to ensure a food and drink offering is provided to service the visitor market 7 days a week and especially during weekend periods. Only those operators with 5 or more reviews, or 3 or more within the F&B category have been included in the NPS assessment. This is why the total number of operators in this table is less than the overall operators count in the table (right). Nights per stay assessment