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How take-out and delivery boosts productivity

How take-out and delivery boosts productivity

Update: 2025-11-26
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For the 30 years leading up to the COVID pandemic, productivity in US restaurants was essentially flat. Since the pandemic, restaurant productivity has soared—because of the rise of take-out and delivery. Chicago Booth's Chad Syverson about his research into the restaurant productivity boom. How has take-out and delivery transformed the economics of the food industry?

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How take-out and delivery boosts productivity

How take-out and delivery boosts productivity