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No Room for the Middle: How “Trading Down” is Killing the Casual Restaurant

No Room for the Middle: How “Trading Down” is Killing the Casual Restaurant

Published on Sunday, July 12, 2026 A logic puzzle is currently playing out across the American landscape, and the math is entirely broken. Consider two choices: a twelve-dollar fast-food burger handed through a car window in a paper bag, or a thirteen-dollar burger served on a heavy ceramic plate by a waiter in an air-conditioned…

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