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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on May 30, 2017, 01:03:35 PM
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I can understand this. Too much work, not enough time.
Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition
Restaurants suffer as people eat at their desks; no more three-martini sit-down meals
By Julie Jargon ▲ Biography @juliejargon Julie.Jargon@wsj.com Updated May 30, 2017 12:47 p.m. ET
The U.S. restaurant industry is in a funk. Blame it on lunch.
Americans made 433 million fewer trips to restaurants at lunchtime last year, resulting in roughly $3.2 billion in lost business for restaurants, according to market-research firm NPD Group Inc. It was the lowest level of lunch traffic in at least four decades.
While that loss in traffic is a 2% decline from 2015, it is a significant one-year drop for an industry that has traditionally relied on lunch and has had little or no growth for a decade.
“I put [restaurant] lunch right up there with fax machines and pay phones,” said Jim Parks, a 55-year-old sales director who used to dine out for lunch nearly every day but found in recent years that he no longer had room for it in his schedule.
Like Mr. Parks, many U.S. workers now see stealing away for an hour at the neighborhood diner in the middle of the day as a luxury. Even the classic “power lunch” is falling out of favor among power brokers.
"Rising labor costs" are cited as a cause. Want $15 an hour? Not going to happen here.
The rest of the piece: https://www.wsj.com/articles/going-out-for-lunch-is-a-dying-tradition-1496155377
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I can understand this. Too much work, not enough time.
"Rising labor costs" are cited as a cause. Want $15 an hour? Not going to happen here.
The rest of the piece: https://www.wsj.com/articles/going-out-for-lunch-is-a-dying-tradition-1496155377
Yes $15 an hour does this.
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There is also the fact that many blue collar workers only get a 1/2 for lunch and most always have only gotten that. Fast food is about all that leaves time for.
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Cost, time, the trouble of it all.... it's just not worth it. It's much easier and affordable to just pack a lunch.