Insights Blog

In a survey fielded late last week, we asked two questions of 963 consumers nationwide:

How badly do consumers need a second round of stimulus checks? Survey results show the need is pretty high. The focus of today's analysis was consumer expectations toward another...

  For Fast Casual restaurants, performance is improving and we're almost out of the woods after a painful downturn during the pandemic.

Since the beginning of June, the Mass channel has lost both share of visits and share of transactions within the Retail market.

COVID-19 has caused a shift in priorities among restaurant goers. In the pandemic era, some qualities matter more than ever, and some are not as important as they used to be.

Last month, coronavirus case counts were declining in some areas, states were reopening, and things were starting to look optimistic. Now, as case counts rise again and some...

Many states are seeing increased case counts of coronavirus over the past couple of weeks, as many of them have reopened and social distancing is relaxing. When consumers return...

The #BlackLivesMatter protests this past weekend highlighted the systems in our country that reinforce racial inequality. We are all part of those systems, and this is a time for...

Now that states are reopening, some restaurants are allowing dine-in service, and people generally have more freedom to be out and about, we analyzed total foot traffic trends...

How will consumer behavior change as states begin to reopen?