Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. The doomsayers who predicted the literal demise of the U.S. restaurant industry ...

Four years after COVID shut down restaurants, the Washington, DC-based National Restaurant Association is "cautiously optimistic." Their recently released 2024 State of the Restaurant Industry report ...

From 2019 to 2020, COVID-19 impacted the restaurant industry catastrophically, with sales plummeting 19.2%. According to the National Restaurant Association’s State of the Industry Report ...

The hyper-competitive restaurant industry is constantly reinventing itself and using ... Some of the latest innovations were ...

During Covid (as well as after major hurricanes) many restaurant workers left the industry entirely and finding their replacements has meant making upping the salaries for dishwashers and cooks ...

The restaurant industry continues to provide employment opportunities. In 2025, the industry is expected to add approximately 200,000 new jobs, bringing the total workforce to 15.9 million employees.

We also saw a number of companies filing bankruptcy because of COVID, which resulted in a ... With demand for delivery spiking after restaurant dining rooms were closed across the country, Grubhub ...

The restaurant, known for its authentic Mexican cuisine and seafood, was Jose's dream before he died from COVID-19 in 2021 ... hospital because he was sick. After two weeks as an inpatient ...