NRN surveyed over 400 restaurant operators for our latest market leader report. Discover how these industry leaders are leveraging data to shape their strategies and drive success.
As someone who loves to travel, I dream of getaways to other continents with breathtaking scenery, exotic cultures, and artisan-produced food and wine. At the moment, though, the harsh realities of rising inflation, an unfavorable exchange rate...
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. Football-shaped doughnuts are back on the menu at Krispy Kreme for a limited time, said the parent of the 490-unit chain. The football doughnuts are regularly topped with chocolate icing, but Krispy Kreme said local...
BENTONVILLE Ark. Wal-Mart is trying to lure consumers away from pizza chains by promoting its Sam’s Choice Take and Bake Pizza as a better value. During a15-second TV spot that aired during the recently concluded Olympic...
SACRAMENTO Calif. In a victory for California’s chain restaurants, proponents of a state menu-labeling bill agreed Friday to narrow the range of outlets that would be covered and to grant those places two means of complying until January 2011...
SAN DIEGO With chains like Jack in the Box here and Popeyes adding lower-priced snack items to their menus, more and more quick-service operators appear to be counting on the munchies to drive traffic. Jack in the Box's new Pita Snacks and...
Most of Organic To Go’s founders previously had owned another company together, a vitamin and supplements concern that they sold to an online pharmacy company. That sale process involved a string of boardroom meetings and catered lunches.Perhaps...
Mitchell Dannenberg knows how to savor a lunch at the new Vapiano restaurant in Fort Myers, Fla. Order the fresh pasta crafted from a machine behind the station counter? Check. Chat with the cook while he prepares the dish? Check. Hang out for two...
Jasper’s Restaurant, the upper-end casual-dining sibling to chef Kent Rathbun’s upscale Abacus in Dallas, is building a unit in San Antonio, taking its “gourmet backyard cuisine” to a fourth Texas market since debuting the concept five years ago...
If restaurant operators were to sing about their troubles, perhaps they might start with a modified rendition of a classic Pete Seeger tune—“Where have all the young people gone?”According to new data from market research firm The NPD Group, young...
Gruyère, dried cranberries, fried eggs, apricot sauce and ginger-soy glaze are not ingredients you’d usually associate with a hamburger. But then again, this is not your usual burger joint. Which is exactly what founder and chief...
