Some Soft Weeks Aren’t Scaring On-Premise Operators

Dear Client: How are on-premise operators dealing with a tumultuous start to 2022? Inflation and Omicron have thrown them for a loop, right? Not really. At least, not in our spot checks.  Sure, there have been some sluggish metrics: Earlier this week, we reported some slowed BeerBoard stats, which track $1 billion universe of bar sales. That data showed recent weeks’ on-premise bev alc trends decelerating in some key areas.  For example, bev alc volumes per location were down almost