Egoditor, a company providing QR generation technology, reported a 25x increase in restaurant customers post-outbreak, along with a 7x uptick among hotels.

Restaurant spending has fallen by about 60 percent across the country, with the sharpest declines in fine-dining, lunch, and late-night food. The situation is especially bad for independent restaurants.

In February, 12.3 million people worked in bars and restaurants, and by April, the number of people employed by food service and drinking establishments in the U.S. had declined by 6.1 million, making it the hardest hit category of employment tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In May, 1.4 million of those workers were back at work,... See more

Like everything else, this concept is being tested brutally by the Covid-19 pandemic. Rent the Runway, the fashion rental service, has had to rethink its plans as fewer Americans commute to offices or attend fancy events. Joymode, which rented out thousands of products, from electronics to margarita machines, closed. Uber rides — which were... See more