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The restaurant industry is heading in the right direction. In its annual State of the Restaurant Industry Report, the National Restaurant Association outlined how the business is faring and what operators can expect over the next decade.

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Starbucks and McDonald’s all kicked off earnings season last week by proving that robust digital efforts will help generate sales, if not always customers.

How a simple painting project can result in big changes in your restaurant

With company money to spend, clients to entertain, and time to explore, the value of business travelers is often overlooked by restaurateurs. Due to their sheer size and spending power, millennial business travelers are an especially important audience that restaurateurs should get to know.

Washington Post
The national restaurant industry is bracing for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that could round up hundreds of migrant families that have received deportation orders. Restaurant owners and worker advocates hope the operation, planned to start on Sunday, will not disrupt an industry already hurting for staff, or broaden into a wider investigation of employees not on the Trump administration’s deportation lists.

More people working from home, online shopping and limited time are transforming lunch, the daypart that holds the industry’s largest traffic share, according to market research firm The NPD Group.