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 ...

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 hyper-competitive restaurant industry is constantly reinventing itself and using ... Some of the latest innovations were in response to or were accelerated by the needs of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Related:One year of COVID — the restaurant industry is crushed by the pandemic In terms of cuisine, burger concepts fared the best, with 7.3% having closed permanently. Restaurants categorized ...

The restaurant industry is big business — from $43 billion sales in 1970 to approximately $863 billion sales in 2019. However, these figures do not take into account losses caused by the COVID ...

But after the 2008 financial crisis ... In 2020, plans to take the chain public were pulled as the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the restaurant industry. But the recent focus on delivery and curbside ...