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2016 Top 500 restaurant chains

More than half of the restaurant industry’s $491 billion in sales come from the Top 500 chains. And these giants grew at a modestly stronger rate, both in terms of sales and store counts, than the industry overall. Restaurant Business focused on the leading 250 performers to identify trends for our first-ever special report delivering lessons from Technomic’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. This special package includes lessons for all operators from the largest chains by segment, menu category and more.

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Capitalizing on Friendsgiving

The made-up holiday offers an opportunity to serve the Thanksgiving crowd before their traditional turkey dinner. Here's how seven restaurant operations are capitalizing on the opportunity.

Designed to create a “Caribbean escape” by offering made-from-scratch island cuisine, live music and tropical drinks

When it comes to restaurant brands, the sales leaders are not always consumers’ favorites for a variety of reasons. Chains best at parlaying customer satisfaction into sales are hard to beat.

Citing the services’ high costs, Olive Garden owner Darden and Newk’s Eatery are cautious on the industry trend.

Recent concept developments and menu and consumer data shifts show that Indian cuisine has potential to expand in the U.S.

Operators are offering more than just a meal for mom this year.

The chain serves Caribbean cuisine made in-house in a festive setting

Take your cocktails out of the glass and into one of these creative carriers.

See which 10 chains are winning with seafood that consumers say they can’t get anywhere else.

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