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posted by n1 on Tuesday June 06 2017, @02:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the employees-can't-afford-to-be-customers dept.

Casual dining is in danger — and millennials are to blame

Brands such as TGI Fridays, Ruby Tuesday, and Applebee's have faced sales slumps and dozens of restaurant closures, as casual dining chains have struggled to attract customers and grow sales.

"Casual-dining restaurants face a uniquely challenging market today," Buffalo Wild Wings CEO Sally Smith recently wrote in a letter to shareholders.

According to Smith, these sit-down restaurants' struggles can blamed on the most-frequently besmirched generation: millennials.

"Millennial consumers are more attracted than their elders to cooking at home, ordering delivery from restaurants and eating quickly, in fast-casual or quick-serve restaurants," Smith wrote.

Millenials are too focused on food ordering apps and healthy cuisine.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Lagg on Tuesday June 06 2017, @07:29AM (3 children)

    by Lagg (105) on Tuesday June 06 2017, @07:29AM (#521215) Homepage Journal

    I hate the term, I hate what it connotates when it's correct, I hate old fucks thinking they're the smarter generation when this has never been true in history and I especially hate the general reasoning involved when committees try to figure out why crappy food in crappy overpriced cookie cutter restaurants are no longer appealing.

    Shit. Is. Expensive.
    Time. Is. Money.
    Time. Is. Expensive.

    This is not hard logic.

    I've assumed I'm older than what "millennial" refers to but with every retarded generalization attached to it I simply cannot know. But I will say this, I'm not sure what I would find to be the most laughable explanation: These people thinking that I like cooking and scam restaurants (you know, like 90% of the ones in the bay area) or the one where I would give a flying fuck about nutrition beyond highest "I'm full nao" value.

    Brands such as TGI Fridays, Ruby Tuesday, and Applebee's have faced sales slumps and dozens of restaurant closures.

    I'm beginning to think "casual restaurant" is another word for "creativity is anathema to us, these tables are this color, these candles are like this, these walls are made of this synthetic material, enjoy your home depot overhead lights".

    Also: Fuck yo app privilege. I got this in Denver. It was cool eating Sushi at 0100 because I felt like it. But now back in AZ :(

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @09:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @09:15PM (#521576)

    I had an older conservative dude tell me that my idealism would fade and I would become conservative. I found it amusing, but really it is annoying when people stop listening to other ideas once they have it "figured out".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:29AM (#521820)

      Ha! These days, the genie's out of the bottle. Anyone with half a brain knows that 99% of the conservative voters have been misguided idealists who actually believed the lies of "trickle down" and "climbing the ladder". It's all about the 1% now. If your idealism fades, you don't vote for them anymore. Really, it's more like a bubble bursting than anything fading.

  • (Score: 1) by acid andy on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:45AM

    by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:45AM (#521823) Homepage Journal

    Yeah, there's really no such fucking thing as a "Generation" in that sense anyway because people are being born and dying continuously as everyone knows. I understand the usage for dividing the population into statistical cohorts for scientific analysis, but there's nothing scientific about these bigoted, deluded opinion pieces. Especially when, as you note, there are many different boundaries defined by different organizations for "Millennial".

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