27 August 2026
Two indices, two different realities. Eating out gets more expensive faster than everything else.
Headline CPI vs food-service CPI
Headline CPI measures a basket of everything: food, energy, housing, clothing, services. The "Restaurants and cafes" category (CP11 at Eurostat) isolates eating out.
The two series do not move together. Food service is labour and rent heavy, and neither of those falls often.
The gyro premium
Gyronomics measures that gap explicitly: on average, food service runs roughly 4 percentage points a year above headline CPI.
That premium explains why deflating gyro prices with headline inflation alone lands well below the price you actually pay today.
The three scenarios
So we show three scenarios: implied price (headline CPI plus premium), headline CPI only, and food-service CPI. From 2019 onward documented real prices take over.
This makes it visible how much of the change is general inflation and how much is specific to eating out.
See the same numbers live in the interactive dashboard.