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Ready … Set … Thanksgiving GO TIME!

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It’s officially November, and time to start celebrating Thanksgiving in your restaurant. Some of you may already have your game plane from corporate, complete with menus and decorations. Others of you don’t answer to anyone, and you may not have even had time to consider Thanksgiving after the busyness around Halloween. Either way, this is your official warning, start nailing down your Thanksgiving plans! Here are a few things you can to do promote Thanksgiving in your restaurant and why it matters to you. To Stay Open or To Not Stay Open … That is the Question The fact is, more and more of the younger Americans are choosing to still celebrate Thanksgiving, but just not do the preparations. This means that 15 million Americans prefer to have their holiday dinner at a restaurant, 4 million order full traditional home-style meals, and another 14 million Americans order a partial meal. The Thanksgiving season can be a great time for your facility to stay open, especially as many...

The Food Facts About Thanksgiving Day

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Thanksgiving is widely celebrated, and whether you have a huge feast at home with your family, or everyone dines out at their favorite restaurant - a LOT of food is consumed. We hope that your St. Louis restaurant stays busy and has a great holiday, but in the meantime, here are some crazy facts about the food that will be consumed this Thanksgiving holiday! Thanksgiving Food Statistics About 50 million pumpkin pies are consumed each Thanksgiving! Make them stand out by using sugar cookie dough or thin slices of cinnamon roll dough for the crust! The average person consumes an average of 3,000 calories at Thanksgiving. If you’ve ever wondered which food has the most calories - wonder no more. It’s the beloved pecan pie. Americans consume 736 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving Day alone. In case you were wondering, that’s about the weight of the Empire State Building. If you’ve always thought that it was tryptophan in the turkey that mad you tired at Thanksgiving, thi...