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Women restaurant owners get chance to rant about tipping, food costs and how to keep businesses alive

Beverage chains are taking off as consumers shift their drink preferences

How IHOP is using AI to boost check averages

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Beverage chains are taking off as consumers shift their drink preferences

The Bottom Line: Some of the fastest-growing chains in the U.S. push drinks, even as sales at traditional concepts lag in growing delivery and takeout business. How can traditional restaurants get in on the action?

Brands need to think creatively as the industry heads into a value war

The Bottom Line: Giving customers meal options they can afford will be key to generating traffic this year. But make sure those offers can generate a profit.

The Red Lobster bankruptcy is a seminal moment for the restaurant business

The Bottom Line: The seafood chain’s bankruptcy declaration was not surprising after months of closures and Endless Shrimp recriminations. But that doesn’t make it any less notable.

Restaurant service charges are suddenly everywhere. What gives?

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An insiders' look at the 2024 MenuMasters Awards

Menu Talk: Pat and Bret deconstruct the ceremony and gala and share their take on the National Restaurant Show.

How IHOP is using AI to boost check averages

The pancake chain's AI recommendation engine makes menu suggestions based on what a customer has already ordered. It has proven quite persuasive.

Red Lobster's CEO is questioning the company's relationship with its owner

The casual-dining chain, which filed for bankruptcy this week, is probing whether its former CEO steered all its shrimp purchasing through the company's owner, Thai Union, a shrimp supplier.

Ohio restaurants try a jujitsu move to protect their tip credit

The industry and its allies are pushing legislation that would raise the state's minimum wage to $15 but keep the credit. The move is intended to thwart an effort to both raise the wage and kill the credit through a ballot initiative.

Flynn Group makes another international acquisition

Flynn Group LP has acquired Wendy's restaurants in New Zealand. The largest franchise operator in the world, Flynn already owns rights to develop the burger brand in Australia.

Day 3 at the National Restaurant Show: Cybersecurity, roller bags and the trouble with takeout

The Restaurant Business team continued to mine the Show floor for aha moments as the event hit its stride Monday.

Dynamic pricing a divisive subject at National Restaurant Show

With the Wendy's debacle still fresh in operators' minds, some are firmly opposed to demand-based menu pricing. Others say its time has come.