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Leadership

The luminaries we lost

 By Peter Romeo on Dec. 18, 2019

The restaurant industry will be poorer in 2020 because of the talents and characters who died in 2019. Here are some of the standouts who were lost.

Operations

Full-service chains continue to prune

 By Peter Romeo on Oct. 24, 2019

Friendly’s, Red Robin plan more closings of underperforming units.

Top 500 Chains

Friendly's

May 03, 2019

Get Top 500 data: sales, units and YOY change, average unit volume, and company/franchise units, as well as Technomic’s analysis, growth forecast and more.

Financing

Chuck Schumer takes issue with the Friendly’s closures

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 11, 2019

The New York U.S. senator said the workers did not receive enough notice and called for a federal investigation.

Financing

Friendly’s closes 23 locations

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 08, 2019

The struggling chain has shuttered a quarter of its locations since 2017.

Leadership

Friendly’s names chief branding officer

By Heather Lalley on Dec. 07, 2018

Ed Valle previously served as El Pollo Loco’s CMO.

Data

Friendly’s

Jun. 19, 2018
Consumer Trends

Millennial parents name the most kid-friendly chains

By Patricia Cobe on May 23, 2018

Consumers with young children reveal their favorite restaurants for their families.

Friendly's

Jun. 11, 2017

An old-fashioned ice cream shop and family restaurant owned by Sun Capital Partners

2016 Top 500 restaurant chains

Jun. 21, 2016

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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