Dave & Buster’s Q2 same-store sales slide 87% amid pandemic-era eatertainment industry struggles

Experience-based dining companies like Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc. continue to struggle throughout the pandemic. For the second quarter ended August 2, the Dallas-based eatertainment company’s same-store sales slide 87%, attributable to the company shutting down all of its stores at the beginning of the pandemic. Over the second quarter, however, Dave & Buster’s slowly reopened many of their stores until by August, the company had reopened 84 out of 115 stores, all operating