Datassential Reports More Than 10% Of Restaurants Shut Down Permanently; 25- to 100-Unit Chains Affected Most

Chicago-based foodservice research firm Datassential has released some very revealing data on permanent restaurant closures during the pandemic. The results were published March 29 in NRN Online. The firm says 79,438 units of the total universe of 778,807 restaurants included in the firm’s Firefly restaurant database closed permanently. Two key take-aways from an analysis of…