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, ...

January was a busy month across restaurant company C-suites as 48 people at 18 chains came and went. Many of these companies, including Yum Brands, Starbucks, and Panera, made sweeping changes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, we examined limited-service burger chains with the highest (and lowest) average unit volumes, an important metric that partially illustrates the health of the brand, including store ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dine Brands International has big plans for its dual-branded IHOP/Applebee’s model this year. The model — which combines Dine’s two flagship brands under one roof and features menu items from both ...

Papa John’s International Inc.’s second largest franchisee started his career in the restaurant industry as a pizza delivery driver. Nadeem Bajwa moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana from his native Pakistan ...