NPD Forecasts UK Restaurant Traffic Will Continue Slow Decline 2019 And 2020, But Spend Will Grow

The NPD Group reports food-away-from-home traffic fell half a point in 2018 in the U.K. to 11.29 billion visits. And they forecast traffic will fall a further 0.5% in 2019 and 0.1% in 2020. But they also forecast overall spending with increase 5% by 2020 all because operators will be raising prices. NPD also expects…