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How CDOs Can Solve the Top Data and Analytics Challenge
Enterprises have made a lot of progress in becoming data driven over the past several years, but organizations continue to cite one major impediment.
As organizations look to speed up their digital transformations and technology progress, one of the big strategy questions is, what is the best approach to getting there? When it comes to data, analytics, machine learning and the rest of artificial intelligence, many organizations have appointed a chief data officer to help hasten the process.
Can one person at the top make the right technology purchase decisions and put the program on the fast track to success? Not really.
Wanna know what fried chicken brand got the most store visits in 2020? Read on.
Top Data identified the top fried chicken brands by visits since the pandemic in some of its most recent analyses. (Image: Provided)
Jan. 8, 2021
Inspired by the launch of new chicken sandwiches by five major limited-service brands McDonald sShake Shack, Sonic, KFC, Popeyes and Chick-fil-A Top Data analysts revealed this week which brands were garnering the most sales.
The global firm based in Tokyo compared traffic data to visits to traditional burger-dedicated brads and found that fried chicken-centered brands have literally been laying golden eggs for restaurant operators during the pandemic.
It’s been a long, hard pandemic for restaurants. Michigan has banned indoor dining at restaurants twice to try and slow the spread of coronavirus once at the beginning of the pandemic and again in November. The second ban is still in effect through at least January 15.
Tracy and Matt Godbold, co-owners of The Rusty Nail in Carson City in mid-Michigan s Montcalm county. The Godbold s moved to Michigan from Arizona to take ownership of the restaurant in 2019.
Credit Courtesy of Matt Godbold / Courtesy of Matt Godbold
With public health restrictions limiting their business for much of the past year, restaurants have struggled to stay open for business. A December study from Top Data and Zenreach indicates spending at restaurants at the end of 2020 declined 11% from January of last year.
Zenreach/Top Data
New research from market analysts at Zenreach and TOP Data shows Florida restaurants are 11% below January sales numbers. Foot traffic is down across the board, said Zenreach CEO John Kelly. Restaurants have been very hard hit, event spaces have practically gone to zero.
Like the rest of the nation, Florida closed much of its economy in the spring to slow the spread of COVID-19, easing the burden on hospitals. Business for restaurants slowed to a trickle as many spots relied exclusively on delivery or curbside options.
Though the state has since reopened, Kelly believed the weakened tourism industry has helped deflate Florida s restaurant spending. Places like Washington, meanwhile, have had a spending increase over January.
By Joel Malkin
Dec 30, 2020
It s no surprise that Floridians are spending less at restaurants now than before the pandemic.
New research from Zenreach and Top Data shows estimated sales were down 11 percent in December compared to January of this year.
Zenreach CEO John Kelly says that even though the state has reopened, the financially devastated tourism industry has led to less spending at Florida s restaurants.
As bad as Florida s eateries have been hit, the damage pales in comparison to Idaho, where restaurant spending is down 47 percent from January to December. That was the worst showing in the data.
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