Crain's Daily Gist
Crain's Daily Gist
Crain's Chicago Business
06/06/25: Diners are eating like a recession is bound
20 minutes Posted Jun 6, 2025 at 8:14 pm.
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From skipping cocktails to splitting meals, recession indicators hit Chicago restaurants. Crain's reporter Ally Marotti talks with host Amy Guth about how the combination of lower foot traffic and reeled-in spending is causing restaurant operators to tweak their strategies.
Plus: Reinsdorf lines up White Sox sale to another Chicago billionaire, McDonald's keeps "core" inclusion programs despite DEI backlash, Northwestern trumpets AI tool that could open up a glaring health care bottleneck and Green Mill building in Uptown is for sale.