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The pandemic hardly touched the restaurant industry and theDinner options in your hometown Will probably shrink before the dust moves. Since independent restaurants disappear at a higher rate than channels, you can also find the quality and diversity of restaurants that survive to miss.

Of the 22,000 restaurants that have closed since the beginning of the pandemic, the overwhelming majority were small businesses with less than five locations, depending on the data reported byWall Street newspaper. Some 50,000 restaurants close each year as part of the natural FBB and industry flow, the National Restaurant Association predicts that the number will double this year. (In touch:15 classical American desserts that deserve a return.)

Indeed, many of us have witnessedThe well-loved local hats go sick of business. Little town icons raising generations of residents such as Ritz barbecue in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Texan Cafe in Huntsville, Texas, Rename National Gotham Bar & Grill in New York, independent restaurants have had trouble Know how their rich heritage.

While the pandemic was not nice with chains likeTuesday Ruby One or the other, these restaurants are better placed to mix the sudden changes in consumer behavior and live to tale. With reliable financial support as a key advantage, some channels have even expanded their activities by capitalizing onvacant real estate in the first pitches and attract new consumers with practical options in the context of the pandemic.

Chipotle has recently opened its 100th chipotlane, aDrive-thru innovative with digital control capabilities. This number represents huge growth for the chain, which had 10 training pitches across the United States in early 2019. Pizza Giants Domino's andPapa Johns Both open new locations after receiving growing sales this year. With lunch and dinner traffic bouncing, McDonald's recently revealedHis best selling sales in a decade. (But he always works to close the competitive gapbreakfast.)

Beyond the Drive-Thru, chains have found growth opportunities inVirtual brands, which are restaurants with kitchens but without dining rooms that exist only as online delivery options. Despite struggles in his brick and mortar locations, Chuck E. Cheesegrew up his virtual restaurant Pasqualy's. The bones of Applebee, Chile and Smokey have all launched virtual wing marks likeThe wings have become the new round-to-comfort food of 2020.

Due to a lack of funding, less leverage on lease and tendency to greater dependence on dinner on delivery, independent restaurants do not have the same flexibility in the pandemic with The pandemic. While independent restaurants will eventually come back, we look at a long and long road to the recovery that wind through several fast food stops, according toRestaurant Business.

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