Yelp’s 2020 Year-Over-Year Business Listing Data Show 18% Fewer New Restaurants And Food Businesses Opened

In the end, the pandemic did suppress the number of new restaurants opened, compared with 2019. Yelp, the online platform for listing and reviewing businesses, reported 76,051 fewer new restaurants and food businesses were listed, 18% fewer than the number in 2019. In its year-end report for 2020, released March 10, it didn’t report how…