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  • Gen X'd Out

    Boomers still have lots to spend, study says

    March 18, 2015

    Boomers between 55 and 64 outspend Millennials — by nearly $8,000 on average in 2013.

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    Fresh, seasonal and less processed ingredients sought after by Millennials and baby boomers alike

    March 4, 2015

    The huge baby boomer cohort is being supplanted by the massive Millennial generation, and both groups are forcing a reconsideration of
    issues relating to health and diet. Boomers seek to maintain
    youthfulness and vigor as they age, and Millennials seek to do the
    ethical thing for their bodies and the planet. 

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    Technology Use In Restaurants On The Rise

    October 30, 2014

    “While overall usage of restaurant technology options is still more common among diners in the millennial generation compared with baby boomers, the age gap generally levels out when it comes to frequent users,” says Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of research for the National Restaurant Association.

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  • Gen X'd Out
    October 24, 2014

    So, Gen X loves voicemail?

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    Thinking like Millennials

    October 14, 2014

    The chain needs to evolve beyond its Baby Boomer base and appeal more to Millennials by losing its reputation as a place for all the bread sticks and salad you can eat and gaining a reputation as a place for fresh, healthier and more customized offerings, says Christopher Muller, hospitality professor at Boston University. “To save itself, Olive Garden needs to become young again,” he says.

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    Fast-Casual Restaurants, Don’t Neglect Gen X

    September 26, 2014

    As consumers, we Gen Xers get no respect. Everyone wants to know about Millennials and whether they will remain adventuresome and frequent restaurant users as they get older (yes, we think so). And many people want to know about Baby Boomers, that giant generation that won’t give up its influence or its youth. But we members of Generation X go unappreciated, sandwiched between these cohorts.

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    Guess Who’s Being Described?

    September 12, 2014

    Wow, even the seniors get a shout-out.

    She is perhaps to the millennials what J. D. Salinger was to the post-World War II generation and Woody Allen was to the baby boomers: a singular voice who spoke as an outsider and, in so doing, became the ultimate insider.

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  • Gen X'd Out
    September 2, 2014

    Millennials vs. Boomers: Paying for Things

    (Source: http://live.wsj.com/)
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  • Gen X'd Out
    August 22, 2014

    General Mills, one of the country’s largest food companies, last year revamped its frozen pizza brand, Totino’s, with black packaging and spicy flavors in an effort to appeal to millennials. The new Totino’s Bold products are marketed with zombie videos on YouTube instead of the picture of the matronly chef Rose Totino clad in red-and-white checkered apron that graced newspaper ads in the 1980s, when the target consumer was baby boomer mothers.

    Marketers Are Sizing Up the Millennials

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  • Gen X'd Out
    July 29, 2014

    Sullivan Higdon & Sink

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