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    Good Food

    McDonald’s and Starbucks thriving during pandemic

    The National Restaurant Association estimates that 60,000 restaurants open during any given year, while 50,000 close. Statistics for 2020 will look wildly different, though the industry is booming.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Oct 16, 2020 • 1 min read

    The National Restaurant Association estimates that 60,000 restaurants open during any given year, while 50,000 close. Statistics for 2020 will look wildly different, though the industry is booming. Clearly it’s not at local, independent, neighborhood restaurants. Heather Haddon covers restaurants for the Wall Street Journal’s Chicago Bureau and recently reported on big business at chain restaurants such as McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Chipotle.

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    2 of 5
    Thriving chain restaurants, World Food Programme, Fuerte Four
    1. 0:00‘In the Weeds’: Serving the Oaxacan community and Los Angeles
    2. 11:23McDonald’s and Starbucks thriving during pandemicYou’re reading this
    3. 24:08Corn versus flour: awarding the Golden Tortilla
    4. 35:21Combating hunger to take the ultimate prize
    5. 48:15Planting for the fall and winter months
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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Thriving chain restaurants, World Food Programme, Fuerte Four
    1. 0:00‘In the Weeds’: Serving the Oaxacan community and Los Angeles
    2. 11:23McDonald’s and Starbucks thriving during pandemicYou’re reading this
    3. 24:08Corn versus flour: awarding the Golden Tortilla
    4. 35:21Combating hunger to take the ultimate prize
    5. 48:15Planting for the fall and winter months
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