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The post-discount traffic weapon is a new daypart, not a lower price.
With blanket discounting eroding margins without building loyalty, chains are creating breakfast and late-night occasions and hospitality-first formats to give guests a reason to visit rather than a reason to save.
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Fast Food & the Consumer Squeeze
The K-Shaped Consumer Splits the Restaurant Sector: McDonald's Now Plans for Zero Industry Traffic as the 10-Year Tops 5% The sector's non-value-tier players are responding to frozen traffic by manufacturing occasions and experience rather than matching the discount arms race.
Fast Food & the Consumer Squeeze
KFC's "Open House": Breakfast Arrives in the US for the First Time as Yum Tests a Hospitality-First Format KFC is answering flat industry traffic by manufacturing a new daypart and hospitality occasion rather than deepening discounts.