{"id":1609,"date":"2014-03-17T16:49:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/winter-storms-devastate-restaurant-industry\/"},"modified":"2014-03-17T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:49:18","slug":"winter-storms-devastate-restaurant-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/winter-storms-devastate-restaurant-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Storms Devastate Restaurant Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"winter<\/p>\n

It’s no secret that winter storms hurt the restaurant industry this year. Restaurant patrons across 33% of the country have been reluctant or unable to leave their homes for the better part of 2014, Wade Handson, a principal at Technomic says.\u00a0As Spring arrives, consumers will reenter the foodservice industry, but January and February have left a mark that most restaurants will be hard-pressed to gain back, according to QSR magazine’s article\u00a0Operators: Is Winter Over Yet?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

”Tin Drum Asiacaf\u00e9, … based in Atlanta, had to close all six of its restaurants in the area for four total days during the ice storms, resulting in around $20,000 in lost sales,” according to QSR magazine.<\/p>\n

4 days. 6 restaurants closed. $20,000 in lost sales. That’s harsh.<\/h1>\n

And that was in Atlanta, Georgia! Coming from the cold Midwest, I would have considered spending the winter in Atlanta to thaw. Prior to 2014, at least.<\/p>\n

Cabrio Structures doesn’t usually ask for hard numbers from our Cabreeze\u2122<\/a> restaurants, but John at Lake Elmo Inn gave us his numbers for the 1st Christmas season<\/span>\u00a0his retractable patio structure was open: <\/span>an\u00a0<\/span>additional<\/strong>\u00a0$50,000+ <\/strong>simply by having their patio open for business.<\/span><\/p>\n

One might say, then, prior to 2010, they were losing $50,000 in sales.<\/p>\n

31 days. 1 restaurant patio<\/span> closed. $50,000 in lost sales. THAT’S harsh.<\/h1>\n

Think about $50,000 in lost sales<\/strong> the next time your outdoor restaurant patio shuts down for the season: are you accepting $50,000\/month in lost sales?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that winter storms hurt the restaurant industry this year. Restaurant patrons across 33% of the country have been reluctant or unable to leave their homes for the better part of 2014, Wade Handson, a principal at Technomic says.\u00a0As Spring arrives, consumers will reenter the foodservice industry, but January and February have left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,41,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cabreeze","category-case-studies","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cabriostructures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}