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What Diners Want and How Restaurants Can Win Them Back
Based on a BCG survey of 6,000 US consumers, it finds roughly a third cut back on restaurant spending in the past six months, with higher prices a key reason, and advises restaurants to let their brand's value proposition guide growth.
Restronomics take
Directly about the price-value squeeze; read it alongside Bain's brief on the same problem.
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Based on a BCG survey of 6,000 US consumers, it finds roughly a third cut back on restaurant spending in the past six months, with higher prices a key reason, and advises restaurants to let their brand's value proposition guide growth.
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