6,500 new restaurants opened in September, despite coronavirus pandemic difficulties: report – By Ann Schmidt (FOX Business) / Oct 22 2020
Yelp’s report found that restaurant openings are getting closer to 2018 and 2019 numbers
Even though 2020 has been a tough year for restaurants, thousands of new establishments opened their doors in September, according to new data.
On Thursday, Yelp published its third-quarter Economic Average report, which found that restaurants are opening “at a higher rate than one might expect” during the coronavirus pandemic.
In fact, 6,497 new restaurants and food businesses opened in September, according to the data. That’s only 100 fewer than the number of new restaurant openings in the same time period last year.
Similarly, 6,735 new restaurants opened in August, and 6,710 new restaurants opened in July.
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