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If you’ve noticed that your local Chipotle or CAVA feel a little quieter during lunch hour, you’re not imagining it. Gen Z has literally stuck a fork into casual dining and picked up grocery bags instead.

Chipotle’s CEO Scott Boatwright recently said younger diners, especially those between 25 and 35, are "facing several headwinds" and simply aren’t eating out as often. The translation: Generation Z is going broke and they know it. The $15 burrito bowl has become a symbol of a generation that’s tightening its belt as the mounting pressure of grocery prices, student loan repayments, and spiraling credit card debt run out of control.

Fast casual dining out was once considered an affordable convenience and has now become a sm

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