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Go Out to Eat to Help Fix the Economy’s Supply-Chain Problems

An empty dining table in the outdoor area of a restaurant in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York.Photographer: Amir Hamja/Bloomberg
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Economic growth is still very rapid, but as everyone knows, the U.S. economy remains beset with bottlenecks and shortages up and down the supply chain.

In a sign of how stressed things are: the Unfilled Orders component of the latest Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey soared to its highest level since the early 1970s.