In a 2020 survey, 85 percent of convenience stores claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic will cause food safety and sanitization methods to be heightened. In contrast, 10 percent believed that the pandemic will not have any long-term effects on c-store operations.
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What long term effects do you think the pandemic fill have on c-store foodservice operations?
Characteristic
Share of operators
Food safety and sanitization methods will be heightened
85%
Delivery, mobile ordering, curbside pickup and other technologies will become more common than in-store foodservice purchasing
53%
Self-serve programs will become extinct or permanently clerk-served
23%
The pandemic will not have any long-term effects on c-store foodservice programs
10%
0%20%40%60%80%100%
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