One of the many things hurting restaurants is the increased cost of take-out supplies.
This year, dining room sales at Renny’s, the north Dallas neighborhood hangout, are down double digits. Meanwhile, the restaurant’s catering and private-party sales are up in the double digits.
“The best way to describe business right now is that nothing makes any sense,” says Renny’s owner, Mark Maguire. “Other than the first months of COVID, this is the least predictable I’ve seen in my 19 years in Dallas, let alone my time in the restaurant business before that. You really don’t know what to expect.”…