restaurantdata.com<\/a>. The website\u2019s data shows more than 8,000 restaurants closed during the first six months of 2026 in the U.S. and Canada. Texas ranks as the highest state so far, with more than 1,000 estimated closures. Houston tops all other cities with 119 closures.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019ve been under extraordinary inflationary costs for years coming out of the pandemic,”\u00a0said Emily Williams Knight, president and CEO of the Texas Restaurant Association. “Food costs are up 35%. Labor costs are up more than 30%.”<\/p>\n
She said credit card fees, insurance costs and liquor liability are also driving up closures.<\/p>\n
\u201cTexas is an incredibly dynamic market, and so while we\u2019ve had obviously a number of closures, we\u2019ve had a tremendous amount of openings,\u201d Williams Knight said.<\/p>\n
Data shows Texas recorded nearly 360 restaurant openings, representing 30% of the national filings through June.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat you\u2019re going to see is the restaurants that really lean in, take care of their employees and offer a great experience to the customer, they\u2019re going to win,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
And what\u2019s keeping a\u2019Bouzy afloat?<\/p>\n
\u201cWine pricing is our number one strategy,”\u00a0said Virene. “You can actually have two or three bottles for the price of another one just down the street.”<\/p>\n
The Houston Restaurant Weeks campaign is helping drive the effort of keeping restaurants open and helping them thrive.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen to your customers. Your restaurant is going to be transformed by what they want, and if you listen to them, you\u2019re going to actually go in the right direction,\u201d Virene said.<\/p>\n
For a\u2019Bouzy, it\u2019s a toast to hope, success and more bubbly for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 National data shows more restaurants are closing in Texas than anywhere else in the country, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2160,132,910,102,138,49,30921,56,58,57,223,82,27,1569,2053,15717,835],"class_list":["post-432501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-app-top-stories","tag-austin","tag-business","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-food","tag-food-and-dining","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-top-stories","tag-valencia-jones","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}