Yelp Sees Lots Of Restaurants Opening 1Q-21, NRA Still Estimates 90,000 Have Closed

It remains very hard to get a good read on how many restaurants have permanently closed during the pandemic. Competing numbers from groups such as NRA, CHD Expert, and the software platforms such as Yelp and Open Table, are, frankly, all over the place. NPD, with its ReCount biannual census, has just decided to forego…