CNN - Hungry at 3 a.m.? Head home and go to sleep. You’re out of luck. Shift workers, bar-hoppers and night owls don’t have nearly as many late-night dining options as they did during the pre-pandemic heyday of 24-hour diners and restaurants. And it’s not just restaurants. Walmart, four years after
Covid-19 prompted curtailed hours, still hasn’t gone back to “open all
night.” Some supermarkets, electronics retailers,
coffee shops and pharmacies that shuttered early during Covid-19 have
never come back to late-night hours. Not even all of 24 Hour Fitness’
gyms — the promise is right in its name — are 24 hours. But the worst hit are sunset-to-sunrise diners and restaurants. The number of restaurants offering 24-hour service fell 18%
from 2020 to 2024, according to data from Yelp. The city that never
sleeps, New York, has lost 13% of its 24-hour restaurants. Los Angeles,
which was also impacted by the Hollywood strikes, has lost a stunning
35% of 24-hour eateries, and Chicago 10%.....Breakfast-based chains are rebounding, somewhat. Around half
of IHOP’s 1,800 locations are back to being open 24 hours on Friday and
Saturday, at the very least. About 75% of Denny’s 1,600 restaurants are
open 24 hours again. And, in a comfort to bleary-eyed students
everywhere, all of Waffle House’s nearly 2,000 restaurants run 24 hours
again.
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Kaity Kline, NPR - I grew up in New Jersey, so naturally, I love diners. New Jersey is considered the diner capital of the world. And Peter Sedereas, head of an unofficial New Jersey diner coalition and owner of Townsquare Diner in Wharton, N.J., estimates that there are around 450 diners in the state. Diners are closing nationwide. When the diner across the street from my apartment in Maryland suddenly closed to be replaced by an apartment building, I started to wonder how diners were doing in my home state. Around 150 diners have closed in New Jersey over the past decade. And it’s not just because of the pandemic. Most New Jersey diners are family businesses, and many members of the next generation are not interested in taking over their family's diner....
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