Financing

How your restaurant sales and profits compare to competitors' and what you can do to improve financial performance

Financing

Top 40 fast-casual chains

Sales at the major fast-casual restaurants are growing at nearly three times the rate for the industry as a whole, but that intake is not being evenly distributed. What fast-casual brands are at the front of that increasingly crowded pack? Restaurant Business borrowed data from its research sister, Technomic, to rate the 40 largest fast-casual chains by systemwide sales. Here, in ascending order, are the sector’s largest chains by sales volumes.

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3 things plaguing headless restaurants

The wave of headless restaurants has been rolling into the off-premise ecosystem. But recent closures of early entrants indicate that the waters are not calm.

Diversified Restaurant Holdings is pursuing a sale or other extraordinary option.

Same-store sales across the chain restaurant industry are down in 2017, but the outlook varies across the country, finds research firm TDn2K.

With activists pushing a potential sale, the sandwich chain gets indications of interest.

The third-wealthiest person in America is teaming up with the richest—Amazon's Jeff Bezos—and JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon to bring down health insurance expenses.

In this environment, anything is possible, but such a deal seems unlikely, says RB's The Bottom Line.

But the former NFL quarterback will still be a company spokesman.

The complaint says the brand won’t let the operator raise prices despite financial losses.

Operators at the Restaurant Leadership Conference wrestled with the dizzying array of third-party delivery services, while weighing how off-premise may continue to shift and change.

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