Yelp: 85% of US Businesses That Temporarily Closed Due to Covid Are Back

New openings topped pre-pandemic levels

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Business directory and crowdsourced review forum Yelp released its data for the third quarter of 2021 on businesses in the U.S. that temporarily closed due to the pandemic and have since reopened.

Yelp said that as of Sept. 30, 85% of businesses in the U.S. that were temporarily shuttered by the coronavirus had reopened their doors.

Breaking it out by category, those figures were 90% for beauty, 86% for auto/professional/home/local services, 86% for hotel/travel 84% for active and 83% for nightlife.

Yelp said the 439,094 new businesses that opened in the first nine months of 2021 topped pre-pandemic levels of 433,243 for the same period in 2019, adding that for the third quarter, new business openings were relatively flat at 142,328, up just 1% year over year.

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