Restaurant Guru Featured at Bisnow Restaurant Summit

Choate Construction's restaurant guru Brian Bollins sat as a panelist at Bisnow's 2nd Annual Atlanta Restaurant Summit today. To see the whole story, click here.

From the curse of Instagram and the appetites of millennials to out-of-town restaurateurs and a hiring crunch, the experts boiled it down to five restaurant trends:

1. Social media can make - or break - a restaurant.

2. Baby boomers still pay the most. But millennials have louder voices.

3. "Fresh" and "experience" are the operative words for restaurants.

4. Atlantans are loyal customers.

5. Hiring is tough right now.