Restaurant Industry Services

THG Capital Markets, LLC. develops and implements strategies to improve marketability, strengthen competitiveness and enhance operating efficiencies for single establishments and national chains. The firm includes specialists in financial analysis, customer attraction and retention, and operations management. It recently began publishing Dining Outlook, a quarterly analysis of food service industry trends and forecasts. Consider the following;

- The food service industry as a major economic force and key indicator of shifts in consumer attitudes and spending.
- Almost one-half of American adults patronize a food service operation each day.
- The typical household spends more than 43 percent of its food budget for meals away from home.
- The U.S. food service industry employs more than 9 million people.
- In Michigan, food service accounts for 11 percent of the state's employment base or nearly 500,000 jobs.