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Fall 2025 State of Business Dining Report
Dinova’s Fall 2025 State of Business Dining Report offers key insights to help navigate economic uncertainty with data-driven strategies for dining and employee engagement.
Dinova’s comprehensive Fall 2025 State of Business Dining Report delivers data-driven insights to help restaurants understand current market conditions and develop effective strategies during uncertain economic times.
- Corporate dining is one of the largest controllable expense categories for most companies.
- Our report reveals how companies like yours are navigating current business dining trends.
- See what opportunities exist to optimize your travel dining program.
What You’ll Discover Inside the Report:
- The True Size of the Business Dining Market – Business dining represents up to $212 billion annually, or roughly one in five dollars spent at U.S. restaurants—a significant spend category worth optimizing.
- Where Corporate Travelers Are Actually Dining – Fast casual brands saw 5% YTD growth among business diners, with catering driving momentum. Understand format preferences to inform your preferred vendor strategy.
- Metro-by-Metro Spend Analysis – Tech hubs like San Francisco and Boston show double-digit gains in business dining, while other markets contract. See how your key travel markets compare.
- Industry Spending Benchmarks Across 9 Sectors – Finance, tech, and telecom companies are increasing dining spend by up to 10%, while manufacturing and energy pull back. Compare your program against industry peers.
- The Rise of Catering in Business Dining – Data on catering trends, average spend, and usage patterns that can inform your meetings and events strategy for 2025.
- Key Insights for Travel and Procurement Leaders – Practical recommendations for optimizing your business dining program and capturing savings opportunities in today’s market.
Methodology
Dinova is the business dining solution that delivers spend visibility and savings for companies while driving growth for restaurants. Our Preferred Dining Program connects over 24,000 restaurants with nearly 600 corporations, government agencies, and SMBs. This report leverages Dinova’s proprietary transaction data alongside industry research from Technomic, a leading foodservice industry research firm.