The weakening economy’s effect on the restaurant business has been a popular topic of conversation at Kwik Trip meetings. The biggest question, according to a KT official: “How do we grab a bigger piece of the pie?”
The pie Paul Servais refers to is a new class of foodservice consumer: the “downtrader.”
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