Based on the company's experience with prior sales-damaging crises related to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), avian flu and "Sudan Red" dye, Yum said it does not expect restaurant sales there to turn higher until the fourth quarter.
And Coren only disagrees mildly: "I do not expect restaurants to be interesting.
Joyce M. Lannert, the commissioner of planning for Westchester County, said she expected restaurants to benefit from the project.
I do not expect restaurants or their staff to love me, either in that Hallmark greeting-card sense or that moist adult way.
People are eating out more, so you might expect restaurants to be booming.
"With Christmas, expect restaurants with slightly higher quality of food to do very well over the holiday.
(Something that's been less challenging than expected: restaurants and hotels that are dog-friendly are surprisingly amenable to pigs as well, Hartness has learned, if you call ahead).
The clamor and crowds waiting for tables apparently work well for Bottega Louie, said restaurant consultant Randall Hiatt, president of Fessel International Inc. "Typically you would expect restaurants in that category to take reservations," Hiatt said, "but it hasn't hurt them at all".
Friends came through with another loan, and within three weeks he expects his restaurant to have 35 tables, six cooks and waiters, and an industrial-size oven in a kitchen serving an average of 50 lunches a day.
Kron also expects the restaurant sector to see strong interest from private equity firms, but feels that McDonalds will still be strong when the deal environment cools.
