Consumers spent all of 2025 shouting about the affordability of products and services, but prices have continued to rise. That means folks have to make hard choices about when and where they can afford to go out to eat.
If you want to stretch your restaurant budget, this can only go so far, and this change in spending behavior is having an impact. See which restaurants are most likely to go bankrupt or close this year.
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1. Long John Silver’s
Fast food fish seems less like a snack and more like a gamble on gastrointestinal distress, so it’s not surprising that Americans are passing on Long John Silver’s.
The chain once had over 1,000 U.S. restaurants, but its footprint has shrunk…