Nation’s Restaurant News is proud to work with the following organizations to provide industry data, trend analysis and educational tools to our readers. Using the exclusive partners listed here, NRN is able to tap into some of the best resources in the restaurant industry to enhance our content offerings with information that can drive your businesses forward.
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Berman & Co.
Berman and Company is a research, communications, advertising and government affairs firm. Rick Berman, president, has founded several leading nonprofit organizations known for their research and aggressive communications campaigns, and contributes monthly to Nation’s Restaurant News on legislative and industry trends.
Coffer Group
Based in the UK, The Coffer Group is an adviser to the leisure property industry, covering individual sites to multimillion portfolios, acquisitions, sales and lettings, valuations, rent reviews, lease renewals, business rating, investments, and other asset management services. Chairman David Coffer contributes international trend reports for Nation’s Restaurant News.
Healthy Dining
Healthy Dining has been at the forefront of restaurant nutrition analysis and services since 1990. In collaboration with the National Restaurant Association, Healthy Dining leads a nutrition initiative featuring more than 60,000 participating locations on its HealthyDiningFinder.com. Healthy Dining’s RestaurantNutrition.com, also provides restaurateurs with strategies for addressing nutrition issues. Healthy Dining founder and president Anita Jones-Mueller, M.P.H., contributes to NRN.com.
The Kruse Company
The Kruse Company, founded by well-known foodservice analyst Nancy Kruse, is dedicated to assessing trends and directions in food, menu and restaurant concepts. Kruse contributes exclusively to Nation’s Restaurant News, including her much-sought-after State of the Plate analysis.
Ries & Ries
Ries & Ries is a marketing consulting firm in Atlanta that was founded in 1994 by Al Ries and his daughter and business partner, Laura Ries. Well-versed in marketing and consumer trends, Laura Ries contributes columns covering the restaurant industry marketplace to Nation’s Restaurant News.
Sullivision
Founded by restaurant industry training and people management expert Jim Sullivan, Sullivision.com designs leadership, service and sales-building products, programs and services for the top 200 restaurant and retail brands worldwide. Clients include McDonald’s, American Express and Walt Disney Company. Sullivan’s training videos appear exclusively on NRN.com.
Black Box Intelligence
Black Box Intelligence is a financial performance benchmarking company for the restaurant industry and provides metrics covering sales, traffic, expense, revenue and consumer data. Black Box Intelligence is owned by Thomas Doolin & Associates along with sister company People Report. Black Box’s new, monthly Industry Snapshot can be found exclusively on NRN.com.
Market Vision
For more than 15 years, Market Vision, Inc. has helped restaurant operators absorb and interpret commodity market data, keeping chains proactive in their buying and contracting. The company looks at macroeconomic trends, links their relationship to commodity markets and identifies the wildcards that could disrupt a supply chain. President John Barone is a columnist and blogger for Nation’s Restaurant News.
MillerPulse
MillerPulse is a provider of industry-leading restaurant data. Its restaurant operator surveys and reports, directed by Larry Miller, restaurant securities analyst at RBC Capital Markets, help operators see their marketplaces clearly, make proactive decisions based on business sentiment and check in with peers on trends, outlooks and same-store sales data. The monthly MillerPulse reports can be found exclusively on NRN.com.
NPD Group
The NPD Group provides consumer and retail information for a wide range of industries and offers insights into foodservice industry trends to guide sales and marketing decisions for restaurants. The company's market research looks at restaurant concepts, menu activity and the foodservice consumer. The firm shares exclusive consumer trends data for the pages of Nation’s Restaurant News.
People Report
People Report tracks one million restaurant employees on workforce analytics and provides data-driven interactive dashboards to help companies with their most critical workforce issues. People Report is owned by Thomas Doolin & Associates along with sister company to Black Box Intelligence. People Report’s quarterly Workforce Index appears in Nation’s Restaurant News.
Industry Social Media Analytics & Education
BTC Revolutions
BTC (Be the Change) Revolutions is a digital consulting agency tackling the building and managing of community fan bases, as well as the implementation of mobile and social strategies for restaurant and other brands. CEO and founder Amanda Hite has developed an exclusive social media training course for Nation’s Restaurant News.
DigitalCoCo
DigitalCoCo gathers and analyzes social media data from more than 30 million U.S. restaurant consumers to provide competitive information on more than 1,000 U.S. consumer and restaurant brands. The company uses the data and insights to provide social media management and digital brand analysis for restaurants, build targeted social audiences, and more. The firm’s Restaurant Social Media Index Top 100 report is an exclusive quarterly report for Nation’s Restaurant News.
Tracking Social
Tracking Social is a social-media software, analytics and consulting firm that helps optimize brand outreach by identifying customer engagement and preferences, and building competitive brand analysis and growth strategies. Tracking Social has built the exclusive The NRN Social 200 to track the social media footprint of the largest restaurant brands on NRN.com.
Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance
The MFHA is a multicultural training and advocacy organization for the food and hospitality industries. The 15 year-old organization educates, advocates for and connects its members to help them effectively engage multicultural employees, customers and communities. The MFHA and NRN have developed an educational webinar series to help build “Cultural IQ” throughout the industry.
National Restaurant Association
Since 1919 the NRA has been the restaurant industry's leading association, and now represents more than 380,000 businesses, from restaurants and suppliers to educators and nonprofits. With a goal of leading America's restaurant industry into a new era of prosperity, prominence and participation, the NRA provides those it serves with the resources needed to stay ahead. Exclusive insights are found monthly in Nation’s Restaurant News.
Women's Foodservice Forum
For more than 20 years, the Women's Foodservice Forum has been committed to helping women and men build leadership skills and accelerate their career growth. Thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations across all sectors of the foodservice industry rely on WFF's events, resources, and programming to reach their full potential.
Share Our Strength
Share Our Strength is a national nonprofit committed to ending childhood hunger in America by connecting children with the nutritious food they need. Working closely with the restaurant industry and relying on the strength of its volunteers, Share Our Strength hosts innovative culinary fundraising events and develops pioneering cause marketing campaigns that support Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
