Restaurant credit was tightening long before the financial crisis erupted, Hamburger says. "You can't blame the credit slowdown on the crisis; you have to blame it on the fundamentals." — E.T.
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Inside the December 2008 Issue
Cover Story
- Future Tense
Features
- Table Stakes
- What Goes Down Will Come Up
Also Inside
- Consumers Concede
- Doesn't Seem Fair
- Which Changes Will Business Believe In?
- Beyond the Bailout
- Subprime Suspects
- With a (Very) Little Help from the Feds
- Unhappy Holidays
- Cold Cuts
- View from Asia
- Off the Hook
- Month In, Month Out
- And in This Corner, the Price-Fighter
- "Every Crisis Begins with a Shock"
- Up and Away
- Tight Makes Right
- Trials and Tabulations
- Bad News Bearers
- My Avatar Ate My Homework
- Campaign Relief
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Reader CommentsDisplaying 2 of 2
John Gordon
Dec 5, 2008 10:15 AM ET
Restaurants must fundamentally restructure
The CFO article is a good one. Many chain restaurant operators right now are hunkering down, cutting costs and … more
FREDERICK SPECHT
Dec 1, 2008 1:31 PM ET
Trouble for beverage too?
Is the decline in casual dining tracked by fine dining? Does the consumption of alcoholic beverages track the decline … more
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