What are Americans making for dinner? Reservations

With nearly half of all Americans at least partially vaccinated and 100% of Americans tired of their own cooking, restaurant traffic is rocketing back.

Restaurant reservations were up 46% in April compared with April 2019, according to the review site Yelp (and up 23,000% compared with April 2020 when most Americans began staying at home during the pandemic). Yelp's competitor OpenTable paints a similarly rosy picture.

In some states, restaurant traffic has blown by pre-pandemic levels, prompting industry experts to draw parallels between now and the Roaring '20s, which followed the 1918 influenza pandemic, bringing boom times for restaurants and other parts of the hospitality industry.