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Food

Menus make a seasonal shift, take on bolder flavors

 By Patricia Cobe on Apr. 05, 2022

Taste Tracker: Chimichurri at Sweetgreen and Cubanos at Potbelly; chicken gets a jolt of spice at Moe’s; Dairy Queen rolls out Stackburgers; Sonic’s slush ring, Dog Haus' cocktails and more menu newsmakers of the week.

Food

Take an inside look at inventive new menu items, with the chefs behind the R&D

 By Patricia Cobe on Feb. 11, 2022

Accelerated menu innovation is pushing new items and LTOs out of the pipeline in larger numbers. These are a few of the standouts.

Food

9 new items trending on global menus

By Patricia Cobe on Jan. 21, 2022

From Argentina to Russia, these are the foods and drinks showing up internationally in chain restaurants.

Emerging Brands

How Sam Fox went from college dropout to one of the country’s most successful restaurateurs

By Heather Lalley on Sep. 09, 2021

In the nearly 30 years since opening his first restaurant, Fox has become a concept developer whose ideas regularly get scooped up by big-time investors and chains.

Financing

Did pizza chains thrive in 2020? It’s complicated

By Jonathan Maze on Jun. 29, 2021

While pizza sales jumped last year, they were largely concentrated among a few chains. Most concepts saw sales declines.

Consumer Trends

Chick-fil-A tops the list of consumers' favorite chains

By Patricia Cobe on Jun. 29, 2021

The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index ranks full- and limited-service chains based on guest experience.

Consumer Trends

Can casual chains hold onto their off-premise gains?

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 28, 2021

Darden Restaurants, the segment's biggest player, doesn’t have the answer, but CEO Gene Lee admits his first assessment was off-target.

Operations

These are the biggest coffee chains in the U.S.

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 24, 2021

A look at the coffee sector, which had a difficult 2020, according to the Technomic Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report.

Operations

The biggest chicken restaurant chains in the U.S.

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 24, 2021

Consumers were all about chicken in 2020, which helped many of the largest chains, according to the Technomic Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report.

Operations

The largest Italian restaurant chains in the U.S.

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 24, 2021

Here are the biggest full-service restaurant chains that specialize in Italian food and pizza, according to the Technomic Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report.

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