Applebee’s opened before the first millennial was born (most consider millennials to be 1981-1996). With an opening date of 1980, the high school and college students of the time are baby boomers.
The term “boomer” refers to folks born during the post-WWII baby boom, and while the exact dates vary depending on who you ask, usually that’s ending in 1955-60ish, so really with opening years at the end of the century that would be Gen X who would’ve been the majority of the high school and college kids eating there. Granted the generations are pretty meaningless if you look to closely at the specifics
Hm, basically every statistical source puts it as exactly 1946-1964. 16 and up is what I assume high school and college students that could eat out alone were at the time— a few 15 and under probably made it, but weren’t the target demographic nor the majority.
Where are you seeing it end at 55-60? I googled it to double check and can’t find a single source that puts it outside the exact 1946-1964 range. Per Wikipedia:
A significant degree of consensus exists around the date range of the baby boomer cohort, with the generation considered to cover those born from 1946 to 1964 by various organizations such as the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Pew Research Center, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Gallup, YouGov and Australia’s Social Research Center. The United States Census Bureau defines baby boomers as “individuals born in the United States between mid-1946 and mid-1964”. Landon Jones, in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation (1980), defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1946 through 1964.
I was honestly going off of memory, and usually when I try to look up the age ranges it’s looking up the younger “generations” so I suppose I’m incorrect
My point being the target demographic were millennials, and there was a point where part of it being cool was that there weren’t boomers or older people going.
Even if it originally served previous generations that were in that same place we were at the time, they weren’t serving those generations at the time we were there. then, the started coming into that space so we left. maybe it wasn’t entirely conscious, but that’s kinda what happened.
Applebee’s opened before the first millennial was born (most consider millennials to be 1981-1996). With an opening date of 1980, the high school and college students of the time are baby boomers.
The term “boomer” refers to folks born during the post-WWII baby boom, and while the exact dates vary depending on who you ask, usually that’s ending in 1955-60ish, so really with opening years at the end of the century that would be Gen X who would’ve been the majority of the high school and college kids eating there. Granted the generations are pretty meaningless if you look to closely at the specifics
Hm, basically every statistical source puts it as exactly 1946-1964. 16 and up is what I assume high school and college students that could eat out alone were at the time— a few 15 and under probably made it, but weren’t the target demographic nor the majority.
Where are you seeing it end at 55-60? I googled it to double check and can’t find a single source that puts it outside the exact 1946-1964 range. Per Wikipedia:
I was honestly going off of memory, and usually when I try to look up the age ranges it’s looking up the younger “generations” so I suppose I’m incorrect
My point being the target demographic were millennials, and there was a point where part of it being cool was that there weren’t boomers or older people going.
Even if it originally served previous generations that were in that same place we were at the time, they weren’t serving those generations at the time we were there. then, the started coming into that space so we left. maybe it wasn’t entirely conscious, but that’s kinda what happened.