Financing

Why some restaurants may struggle to get through the winter

This week’s episode of the RB podcast “A Deeper Dive” features Adam Werner, from AlixPartners, talking about restaurants’ difficult financial position as more shutdowns loom.

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A vaccine may be on its way, but so are additional restaurant closures. And that could make for a difficult winter.

This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast “A Deeper Dive” features Adam Werner, global co-leader of the restaurants, hospitality and leisure practice at the consulting firm AlixPartners.

The firm recently did a study examining the debt levels in the restaurant industry, finding that full-service concepts in particular have more debt. And more have negative earnings. Werner believes that this could make for a difficult winter as the coronavirus looms and more shutdowns could be in the offing.

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