Welcome to First Bite, a Nation’s Restaurant News podcast, your daily source of news from NRN.
Today, we're talking about the Restaurant Development and Finance Conference.
A few overarching themes emerged, and none of them should be a surprise to anyone in the restaurant space.
To summarize, things are challenging right now with across-the-board inflation, supply chain pressures, labor pressures, name it. One operator said he wouldn't recommend anyone open a restaurant until "things get better."
That said, there is optimism things will get better. When, however, is the million-dollar question.
Here to share her observations from the conference is executive editor Alicia Kelso.
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