Quick-service restaurants (QSRs), which represent 80% of total commercial foodservice visits, realized no traffic growth in 2016 and total foodservice traffic dipped slightly, reports The NPD Group, a global information … Continue Reading →
Getting customers who visit restaurants less to visit more may be overstating the obvious in terms of boosting sluggish U.S. foodservice traffic growth. IFT Daily News
A confluence of squeezed consumer wallets, the rising cost of dining out, and changing needs and wants has brought the U.S. restaurant industry traffic growth to a halt in the … Continue Reading →
Foodservice lunch, which accounts for a third of all foodservice traffic, has posted consecutively steeper declines over the past six months, reports The NPD Group, a global information company. IFT … Continue Reading →
Fast-casual restaurant chains, which are upscale quick-service restaurant (QSR) concepts, continue to be on a winning streak, growing both in units and customer visits, finds The NPD Group, a global … Continue Reading →
Visits to quick-service restaurants, which represent the bulk of global foodservice traffic, were more a reflection of consumer sentiment than each country’s economic state in the fourth quarter of 2014, … Continue Reading →
The U.S. Hispanic population is growing exponentially compared to non-Hispanics, and the group’s overall restaurant visits outpaced population growth, reports The NPD Group, a global information company. IFT Daily News
Millennials are the chosen generation for many marketers because of their sheer number and perceived buying power, but they are not a homogenous group and depending on their age and … Continue Reading →
According to Technomic, a fifth of today’s consumers (21%, up from 16% in 2012) say that beverages play a very important role in deciding which restaurants to visit for meals. … Continue Reading →
The downside and upside for the U.S. restaurant industry in the first quarter of 2014 was that total restaurant visits dipped but delivery and other areas got a boost, reports … Continue Reading →
