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Why Restaurants Are Trimming Opening Hours
In this episode of Restaurant Business with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna unpack a quiet trend reshaping the industry: restaurants are deliberately cutting their opening hours. They trace the shift back to post-pandemic labor shortages and rising costs, then zoom in on the math behind it. Lucas walks through a real-world example from a Chicago trattoria that shaved off its slow Tuesday lunch service and watched its labor-to-sales ratio improve by nearly six percentage points. They examine how fixed costs like rent and insurance stay the same, making it vital to hit peak productivity during shorter…
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