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The U.S. restaurant industry is in a funk. Blame it on lunch.
Americans made 433 million fewer trips to restaurants at lunchtime last year, resulting in roughly $3.2 billion in lost business for restaurants, according to market-research firm NPD Group Inc. It was the lowest level of lunch traffic in at least four decades.
While that loss in traffic is a 2% decline from 2015, it is a significant one-year drop for an industry that has traditionally relied on lunch and has had little or no growth for a decade.
"I put [restaurant] lunch right up there with fax machines and pay phones," said Jim Parks, a 55-year-old sales director who used to dine out for lunch nearly every day but found in recent years that he no longer had room for it in his schedule.
Like Mr. Parks, many U.S. workers now see stealing away for an hour at the neighborhood diner in the middle of the day as a luxury. Even the classic "power lunch" is falling out of favor among power brokers.
Re-heating leftovers in the break room microwave takes two minutes and is guaranteed to be on your diet?
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Tuesday May 30 2017, @11:43PM (2 children)
You are out of work and presumably have no income, yet you think that eating at Chipotle is a good decision? With their food hygiene and credit card issues, I am not convinced that eating there is ever a good idea, employed or not.
Perhaps your employment issues are related to poor decision making on your part rather than the economy in general?
Perhaps you need to take Ethanol-fueled's advice: he says that there is a job for anyone with a pulse in CA.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 31 2017, @12:28AM
I've worked at telecoms and other utilities where the annual turnover rate for positions is either low caste and like 1200% annual turnover for customer "support" or its like 1% annual turnover. Thats probably what OP is implying. The closer your hands are to revenue the worse the working conditions and oversight, but the engineer who automates the testing systems can do whatever he damn well pleases all day long.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @12:40AM
Perhaps you could read the sentence in context.
The implication is if workers are too busy to go out to lunch, let the unemployed go out to lunch instead. In other more famous words, Let Them Eat Cake! Terribly sorry you needed the subtlety to be made explicit for you. Would you like to blame your lapse of cognitive ability on sleep deprivation from your 100 hour work week?