1. Although people may go to restaurants on special occasions, the lunch business is fading. 2. And it was that lunch business that earned him a reputation and brought people back in the evenings. 3. Boston Market discovered that recently when it tried to create a lunch business to augment a brisk dinner trade. 4. Consumers have been using coupons intended to bolster the lunch business to purchase sandwiches for dinner, analysts said. 5. Facing competition from delivery pizza chains and mom-and-pop pizzerias, the parent of Numero Uno bought a sandwich fast food chain in Oregon to boost lunch hour business. 6. His lunch business has taken a dramatic upswing in the last eight months. 7. His lunch business has steadily declined over the years, and indications were that fewer tourists were coming during September and October, he said. 8. Its lunch business has been increasing since the chain introduced more portable meals such as its chicken bowls, tostada bowls and specialty burritos. 9. Lunch business was brisk, with good soups, sandwiches and blue plate specials. 10. The company also abandoned a discount program to boost its lunch business, but which ate into its dinner revenue instead. |