{"id":232613,"date":"2024-06-02T23:18:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T03:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=232613"},"modified":"2024-06-02T23:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T03:18:26","slug":"a-restaurant-apocalypse-is-starting-to-sweep-across-america-and-that-is-really-bad-news-for-the-u-s-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=232613","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Restaurant Apocalypse&#8221; Is Starting To Sweep Across America, And That Is Really Bad News For The U.S. Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/a-restaurant-apocalypse-is-starting-to-sweep-across-america-and-that-is-really-bad-news-for-the-u-s-economy\/\">READ HERE<\/a>: <strong>You can get a really good idea how the U.S. economy is doing by watching restaurants in your area.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0When the economy is booming, restaurant parking lots are full and chains are feverishly establishing new locations.\u00a0 But when the economy is struggling, restaurants get a lot less traffic and poor performing locations get shut down.\u00a0 Sadly, in 2024 it appears that a \u201crestaurant apocalypse\u201d has started to sweep across America.\u00a0 Most people have very little discretionary income to spend as a result of our cost of living crisis, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/generation-z-is-furious-about-what-has-happened-to-the-economy-and-they-are-blaming-previous-generations-for-wrecking-it\/\">that is particularly true for our young adults<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Americans under the age of 40 love to eat out, but these days most of them are experiencing financial stress, and this is having an enormous impact on the restaurant industry.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}