The damage the fine-dining segment has suffered because of COVID will not be fixed in the short term, ratcheting up the pressure on seafood suppliers to find new ways to move their products through the foodservice channel.

“We can go back at Technomic and look at the last 40 or 50 years of history of the industry and there have been recessions, economic recessions and so forth, and even in a worst-case scenario in economic recessions, the foodservice industry might be down a point or two, a percent or two, during those years.