Restaurants, Price Gaps, and AI: What We Heard at ICSC
We just spent a few days at the 2026 ICSC Conference with operators, retailers, brokers, and investors from around the country. Like always, the most useful part wasn't the panels — it was the hallway conversations about what people are actually doing right now. A few things came up again and again. Restaurants and Service Tenants Are the Ones Expanding The clearest signal on the floor: restaurants and service-based concepts are doing most of the active expanding right now. A
