Even with consumers hurrying into fast-food restaurants to stretch their dining dollars, openings of the eateries have slowed across the country.
With construction financing scarce and the economic outlook uncertain, busy cash registers have not always meant busy builders, restaurateurs and real estate experts say.
The slowdown has been less pronounced in Big D, where nearly 60 percent of restaurants are classified as “limited service” or fast food.
Although the number of Dallas-Fort Worth restaurants fell 1.1 percent between March 2008 and March 2009, the fast-food count grew 0.8 percent, according to the Spring ReCount report from the NPD Group, a research firm in Port Washington, N.Y.
Nationally, the total restaurant count fell 0.7 percent and fast food was virtually flat. Read full post.Photo: Louis Deluca / DMN.
