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Podcast: A Deeper Dive
Episode: The biggest trends in the restaurant industry right now
Description: What does the Technomic Top 500 tell us about the restaurant industry right now?
This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Joe Pawlak, managing principal with Technomic. And we talk all about the report and the trends that it reveals.
The Top 500 is essentially data on the chain restaurant industry, since that data makes up the vast majority of chain sales. Restaurant sales increased more than 8% last year, but that was due entirely to prices and some unit growth, rather than traffic.
We talk about some chains on th...