Consumer Trends

Consumer trends, insights and preferences

C-stores get an "A" from college students

Nov. 15, 2012

C-store operators have a valuable demographic to target, according to “Making the Grade: Student Consumer Impact on the Retail Fuels and Convenience Marketplace,” by the NPD Group. The report, which collected 12 months of data ending in June 2012, found that the 19 million college student population accounts for billions of dollars spent each year on C-store products.

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Restaurateurs show signs of warming to E-Verify

Apr. 30, 2013

With Congress eying proposals to update the regulation of immigrant workers, the National Restaurant Association has released data that shows the restaurant industry is warming to one of the main enforcement tools, the E-Verify system.

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Consumers' favorite chains

By Sara Rush Wirth on Jan. 15, 2014

Find out which chain restaurants reigned supreme—and what they’re doing right.

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3 ways restaurants are courting Hispanic customers now

By Kelly Killian on Feb. 04, 2015

Restaurants’ latest outreach efforts take a more nuanced approach to reaching Latino consumers.

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Restaurant nightmares of the week: undead guests; truly baked on-premise

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 06, 2016

Learn how bad of a week it was for some fellow operators.

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5 ways cafes are brewing sales

By Kelsey Squire on Sep. 21, 2016

Bread isn’t the only thing on the rise at cafe concepts. As traffic to this restaurant type increases, here are the draws bringing customers in the door.

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LSRs: The Food Comes First

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 07, 2017

Heavy takeout users and millennials (often one and the same) are even more likely to say the quality of takeout food is very important in their LSR selection.

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