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Home > Blogs > Taste: Dayton food and restaurants > Archives > 2008 > October > 15 > Entry

Casual dining chains struggle for customers

By Mark Fisher | Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 06:52 AM

USA Today has published a story headlined “Casual Dining Chains Hunger for Change” which details the falling sales and traffic in the restaurants and some of the strange tactics employed to reverse the trend.

Noting the drop in same-store sales and traffic, the USA Today story says, “And that was before the economy really went south. Now, who’s got dough to blow at a sit-down restaurant with prices rising at a rate that will make you sit up?”

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