{"id":1000949,"date":"2020-12-04T23:04:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T04:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/?p=1000949"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:06:40","slug":"media-feature-dr-yang-yang-on-pandemic-impacts-and-restaurant-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2020\/12\/04\/media-feature-dr-yang-yang-on-pandemic-impacts-and-restaurant-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Feature: Dr. Yang Yang on Pandemic Impacts and Restaurant Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yang Yang was featured in <em data-start=\"220\" data-end=\"259\">MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Edition<\/em> by <em data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"293\">Modern Restaurant Management<\/em>, where he discussed his influential research on the early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. restaurant demand and the industry\u2019s resilience. As an associate professor in Temple University\u2019s School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management, he highlighted how pandemic conditions and stay-at-home orders sharply reduced restaurant demand and noted that fast-food operations showed relatively greater resilience than full-service establishments. Dr. Yang also introduced the <strong data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"808\">Restaurant Resilience Index<\/strong>, a novel data-driven tool comparing county-level household food-away-from-home expenditures before and during the initial pandemic phase to help guide industry planning and preparedness for future disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/modernrestaurantmanagement.com\/mrm-research-roundup-holiday-edition\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yang Yang was featured in MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Edition by Modern Restaurant Management, where he discussed his influential research on the early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4944,"featured_media":1000397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2025\/12\/Picture4.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1000960,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2021\/06\/05\/dr-yang-yang-speaks-on-the-use-of-geo-location-data-in-tourism-research-at-ttra-annual-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":1000949,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Yang Yang Speaks on the Use of Geo-location Data in Tourism Research at TTRA Annual Conference","author":"Yang Yang","date":"June 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Yang Yang delivered an invited talk on a special panel at the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) Annual Conference on June 15, 2021, focusing on the use of geo-location data in tourism research. 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