As restaurants across much of the summer slide into their busiest season, the National Restaurant Association is forecasting an additional 490,000 summer jobs added to their payrolls. The ...

The restaurant real estate landscape will remain challenged through 2024 and into 2025, but pockets of development continue apace, according to David Orkin, EVP and restaurant practice leader for ...

Emerging restaurant brands are no doubt fun to follow. They’re often bringing new menu and branding ideas to the table, tapping into consumer trends in creative ways that showcase a glimpse into ...

Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News and Datassential partner to present the Top 500, the definitive sales ranking of restaurants in America. In 2022, a mind-blowing 456 restaurant companies in ...

2021 was a great year for the coffee/bakery restaurant segment, with all of the 10 biggest chains seeing an increase in systemwide sales — some as high as 55.7%. In the annual Top 500 report ...

The Happy Customer Index leverages proprietary data from Merchant Centric to understand which restaurant brands are checking all of the customer satisfaction boxes — from timeliness and ...

If founders, chefs and other creatives are the beating heart of the restaurant industry, then franchisees are the veins delivering their ideas to all corners of the globe. Franchising is critical ...

Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced that the government agency would be distributing $83 million in unobligated Restaurant Revitalization Fund ...

It would be a mistake to say that 2022 was a return to business as usual for restaurant companies. After all, “usual” for restaurants doesn’t typically include white-hot inflation, an ...

The concept of a “pop-up restaurant” – which essentially began as “supper clubs” in the 1960s – didn’t begin appearing on Google Search until around 2009. At the height of the ...

Sixteen Orlando, Fla.-area KFC restaurants may seem a little different than the rest of the system. That’s because the chain announced today it is testing a new “KFC Original” prototype ...

Last month, the biggest executive news was that G.J. Hart, formerly CEO of Torchy’s Tacos, would be taking on the role of chief executive at Red Robin. Following in the footsteps of Paul Murphy ...