Marshall Terry: So are the days of going out and sitting down at a restaurant coming to an end?
Tony Mecia: I don’t think they’re coming to an end. You’ll still be able to go out to your favorite restaurant and be waited on. Really, this is a trend about restaurants that are adapting their buildings and moving into buildings that are maybe a little bit smaller. This is for a couple of reasons. One is that real estate prices are going up and it’s more efficient to have a smaller space.
It’s also that consumers really want that on-the-go convenience. There are more delivery services like DoorDash and Uber Eats. It’s really kind of a shift in how restaurants are approaching the idea of their physical space. The article that we had in The Ledger looked at Amelie’s, the French bakery, which has a number of locations around town…