NPD: Baby boomers represent potential boon to industry traffic

Children may be the future of the world, but according to new data from market research firm The NPD Group, baby boomers are the future of the restaurant industry.

While nearly all other age groups have decreased their per-capita visits to restaurants in the last five years, boomers—roughly defined as adults born between 1946 and 1964—have significantly increased their visits, according to Port Washington, N.Y.-based NPD. With the Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasting that the size