Restaurant industry deals with issues caused by too many locations
May 1, 2017
The restaurant industry has been expanding its location count by about one percent every year since the end of the Great Recession. With traffic to restaurants nationwide down 3.6 percent in the first quarter, according to BlackBox Intelligence, it’s becoming clear that the supply of locations exceeds demand.
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