Restaurants will be one of the biggest loser small businesses in the next 3 years. There will be less customers and those customers will be buying less during their visit…a double whammy. The biggest losers in the restaurant market will be the family and full service and upscale segments along with weekend vacation spots in this segment, while the cheaper and most expensive places will do OK. That means that if your restaurant caters to the middle class, you will get the brunt of the pain in the next 3 years.

Extremely Upscale will likely grow, and fast food will also. Everyone else, plan on 1-2 years of a 5% - 30% drop in sales.

How will your restaurant cope? 

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