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January 6, 2014
Unemployment Undercut 2012 Restaurant Visits By Hispanics, Reports NPD
Restaurant traffic fell 1% for U.S. Hispanics last year, as higher than average unemployment as well as demographic differences among the ethnic group led to a loss of 86 million visits, according to data from The NPD Group’s “CREST Hispanic.” For the country as a whole, traffic rose 1% last year. In contrast, even though…
January 6, 2014
NRA’s Performance Index Rose Again In April
Restaurant operators are apparently getting over the jitters many had in the first quarter. Fueled by gains in all four components of the Expectations Index, as well as improved current same-store sales and traffic, the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index rose for the second straight month, according the April report released May 31. The…
January 6, 2014
Restaurant Sales In Canada A Bit Better, But Optimism A Bit Worse
The percentage of Canadian restaurant operators reporting higher same-store sales in the second quarter of this year, compared with the same quarter in 2012, rose slightly, while those reporting lower sales dropped somewhat, according to the latest survey from the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association’s quarterly Restaurant Outlook Survey. Of those surveyed, 34% report higher…
January 6, 2014
Restaurants Losing Traffic To Retailers At Key Lunch And Dinner Dayparts
The NPD Group has issued a new research report that details how prepared food offerings at retail outlets such as supermarkets are eating into restaurants’ lunch and dinner traffic. The report, “The Retail Prepared Foods Market: Assessing the Competition,” says visits for prepared foods at retail outlets at lunch have soared 29% since 2008, while…
January 6, 2014
E&S Public Companies Grow 3Q Sales 3.2%
Third-quarter revenue growth by the seven publicly reporting foodservice equipment and supplies companies were a very mixed bag, according to data compiled by John Muldowney, principal at Clarity Marketing and a marketing executive at the Boelter Cos. Still, blended sales of the companies were positive, with a gain of 3.2%, compared with 3Q/2012. Sales for…
January 6, 2014
New Face To Lead NRA Advocacy
Matt Walker will lead the National Restaurant Association’s advocacy strategy and lobbying efforts in the Congress as the NRA’s new v.p.-government affairs. Before joining the NRA, Walker worked as deputy staff director and chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and as senior aide to former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe,…
January 6, 2014
NRA Announces Speakers For This Month’s Public Affairs Conference
Speakers of a distinctly political hue are in the spotlight at the National Restaurant Association’s 27th annual Public Affairs Conference in two weeks. The April 17-18 conference in Washington, D.C., will see more than 500 restaurateurs from across the country convene for presentations from U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy, majority whip of the U.S. House, as…
January 6, 2014
Majority Of States Veto Minimum Wage Increases
Workers who picketed quick-service operations in hopes of earning a living wage were disappointed across the country when only one state passed a bill to increase the minimum wage. After the president’s State of the Union address called for a $1.75 increase at the federal level, wage legislation flooded state legislatures in 2013. Twenty-nine states…
January 6, 2014
Texas Pizzeria Wins Court Battle With Umami Burger
Umami Burger has lost the trademark infringement case it filed in June against Texas-based Umami Mia Pizzeria. In the case, Los Angeles-based Umami Burger asked that the three-month-old Austin restaurant “immediately change their name.” On Aug. 13, a judge denied Umami Burger’s injunction, on the grounds that umami is a common word that cannot be…
January 6, 2014
Streamlining In Seattle
A member of the Seattle City Council is pushing regulatory reform to facilitate a restaurant opening. Complaints from the local small-business community about the necessity of going to multiple departments at the city, county and state levels to open a restaurant only to encounter overlapping or conflicting regulations struck a cord with council members. As…
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