{"id":12738,"date":"2025-06-17T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.restroworks.com\/blog\/?p=12738"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:00:57","slug":"australia-restaurant-app-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.restroworks.com\/blog\/australia-restaurant-app-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Restaurant App Statistics: User Trends, Growth Insights & Digital Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Across the world, restaurant mobile apps are no longer a secondary channel; they are becoming foundational to how operators acquire, retain, and engage with their customers. And the Australian restaurant app market is right with it.<\/span><\/p>

In 2024, over <\/span>8.3 million Australians<\/span><\/a> actively used online food delivery services through websites and apps, underscoring a deep behavioural shift. As the industry focuses more on efficiency and growth, digital tools like mobile ordering, delivery, and reservations are becoming essential for restaurant operations.<\/span><\/p>

This widespread adoption has also driven remarkable changes in customer ordering behaviors, engagement patterns, and loyalty dynamics. Understanding these trends through the latest data is critical for restaurant operators to optimize app performance and maximize revenue.<\/span><\/p>

This blog gives a comprehensive overview of Australia\u2019s restaurant app statistics, revealing key user trends, growth metrics, and digital adoption patterns that define the sector today.<\/span><\/p>

Food Service and Digital Adoption in Australia<\/b><\/h2>

Australia\u2019s food service industry is growing consistently, expected to reach <\/span>$115.8\u202fbillion by 2030<\/span><\/a>, with a CAGR of 11.4% from 2025 to 2030. This growth is driven by increased consumer spending, which hit <\/span>$160 per week<\/span><\/a> in 2022, along with fundamental shifts in how Australians want to dine and interact with restaurants ever since the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>

Contactless ordering, convenience of home deliveries, and personalized digital experiences have now become default consumer expectations. They want more convenience, speed, and control in their dining experiences through sources that let them browse, order, and pay without waiting in long queues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Mobile apps are uniquely positioned to deliver on all these aspects, making them an excellent customer-facing solution and a strategic asset for restaurant operators.<\/span><\/p>

How? There are over <\/span>34.4 million<\/span><\/a> mobile connections in a country of just over 26 million people, and smartphone penetration now exceeds 87%, with forecasts hinting at <\/span>23.6 million devices<\/span><\/a> by 2026.<\/span><\/p>

More importantly, mobile users spend over <\/span>90% of their screen time<\/span><\/a> in apps rather than websites, averaging nearly 3 hours and 45 minutes daily. This changing mobile behaviour offers opportunities for high engagement with restaurant-branded applications, pushing restaurant owners to meet consumers on native platforms rather than relying on third-party aggregators.<\/span><\/p>

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The State of Restaurant App Adoption in Australia<\/b><\/h2>

As mobile-first behavior becomes standard across Australia, restaurants are responding with strategic digital investments, particularly in mobile apps. Let\u2019s explore how widely Australian restaurants are embracing mobile apps, which features are gaining traction, and what the data reveals about the future of the market.<\/span><\/p>