{"id":12311,"date":"2017-05-02T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2017-05-02T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:00:18","slug":"restaurant-sales-slow-again-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/restaurant-sales-slow-again-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant sales slow again in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Jonathan Maze&#8217;s Nation&#8217;s Restaurant News takes a look at the sales figures for the nation&#8217;s restaurants in the month of March.  Although they have risen a little bit since the last month, they&#8217;re still weakest it&#8217;s been for the past three years.  Besides delving into the fact, Maze also takes a look at some of the causes behind the current decline (including lower grocery store prices) and what might occur to sales in the immediate future.<\/p>\n<p id=\"takeawayheader\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">The growth in restaurant sales over the past several months is the slowest it&#8217;s been since 2013.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">General retail sales, however, are up (meaning that the slow growth for restaurants isn&#8217;t the result of general economic distress, but rather consumers spending money on other things).<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">Grocery store sales are increasing as their prices decrease, possibly taking sales away from restaurants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;Restaurant sales rose 2.8 percent in March, according to federal data, slowing for the second straight month&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"readmoretext\">Read more: <\/span><a id=\"source\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrn.com\/sales-trends\/restaurant-sales-slow-again-march\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.nrn.com\/sales-trends\/restaurant-sales-slow-again-march<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"task_trail\" style=\"display:none\">(abstract 3V0TR1NRVA24T0KP27T9BYQHONUA4S 32KTQ2V7RDF8FRXJ67K7PHSHZFI9MV AR72L0JX4D03W)(authorquote 3VCK0Q0PO5EUEVWDSABCL1K46IEN0A 3QBD8R3Z21JVIOCJ2S3T0D668NLO4V A2DF6TI9TKYQ6P)(keypoints 322ZSN9Z5GK98WJY87KQ63G9CCH4T9 3VELCLL3GKJKKC27G711FLQP43U1FL A3HQZO4V7VBXSZ)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Maze&#8217;s Nation&#8217;s Restaurant News takes a look at the sales figures for the nation&#8217;s restaurants in the month of March. Although they have risen a little bit since the last month, they&#8217;re still weakest it&#8217;s been for the past three years. Besides delving into the fact, Maze also takes a look at some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}