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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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @09:44AM (1 child)
"Blaming and shaming the previous generation for societal woes is literally one of the oldest tropes in history."
Then why are the older generations blaming the -later- generations in this case?
Seriously though, if millennials are eating healthier and the like, then all the more power to'em. If it causes fast food and similar to die out as a result, I'm willing to accept that. It's cheaper for the businesses in question to bitch and complain I guess than it is to stock healthier food products. Gotta watch that bottom line after all.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by c0lo on Tuesday June 06 2017, @12:23PM
Yeah, definitely a millenials job; I mean, after a certain age, it simply doesn't look right to look for bottoms and lines all the time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford