Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News provides analysis of Technomic’s annual Top 500 restaurant chains report, which ranks companies by U.S. systemwide sales. 2024 was a tough year for restaurants, ...

Red Robin’s turnaround plan continued to gain traction during the fourth quarter, with the company reporting 3.4% same-store sales growth Wednesday after market. The company also reported sequential ...

Sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term “third place” in his book The Great Good Place, published in 1989. Starbucks unquestionably mainstreamed the idea of having a physical place that qualified as ...

Salad and Go, the drive-thru salad concept, plans to close 41 restaurants, the company CEO said Tuesday. “This includes all locations in Houston, Austin and San Antonio, along with a few in the Dallas ...

Matcha — bitter, grassy, and gritty — doesn’t stand out as an obvious candidate for a trending ingredient, but many customers have taken a shine to it for its health halo as well as the vibrant green ...

Since taking office for the second time, President Donald Trump has released a flurry of executive orders, many of which are aimed at making immigration policy in the United States much stricter than ...

Federal data released Tuesday morning from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that inflation accelerated to 2.7% on an annual basis in June, and is up 0.3% versus May, marking the fastest monthly ...

In my last article, you read about the importance of Bringing Corporate Values to the Frontline in Casual Dining, answering an excellent question by Alex Botelho, International Franchise Development ...

Kelli Valade learned about the importance of leadership development in restaurants at an early age; when she was a teenager, her bosses at the Big Boy where she worked in Upstate New York recognized ...

There were clear winners in an otherwise muted restaurant industry in 2024, in which sales growth was 3% — its slowest pace in 10 years outside of the pandemic. There were also plenty of restaurant ...

The restaurant industry surpassed $1 trillion in sales for the first time ever in 2024 and that pace isn’t expected to slow down this year. In fact, the National Restaurant Association predicts it ...

After Donald Trump was elected president for the second time, he called for levying 25% tariffs on imported goods from Canada and Mexico, as well as an additional 10% tariff on China. He originally ...