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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @03:30PM
exactly, it's not just millennials. it's the fact that the internet makes it possible for people to learn that your "food" is overpriced poison. food manufacturers, grocery stores, etc are all figuring it out. That the awakening is happening amoungst consumers, though i still see people buying chips and sodas and other processed poison for little timmy and suzy while simultaneously asking them why they are spazzing all over the place with their food caused diseases.