While 2020 has been the hardest year the U.S. restaurant industry has ever faced, some analysts and seafood suppliers expect to see the industry rebound in 2021.
Major foodservice distributor US Foods, for example, is optimistic about a restaurant-sector recovery, as more Americans obtain the COVID-19 vaccine and return to dining out, according to its chairman and CEO, Pietro Satriano.
“It is poised for recovery in the medium- to long-term,” Satriano said at the 2021 ICR Conference.
Satriano pointed to foodservice recovery In Australia, “where fairly significant restrictions were put in place, and they got control over virus.”
“They are pretty much back to 2019 levels,” Satriano said…