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.
Rates of turnover among chief executives and in such leadership slots as president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer are on the rise in foodservice recently, and the economic environment is getting the blame—and in some cases...
Agrowing number of quick-service and fast-casual operators, looking to push guest counts up, are offering customers more opportunities to sit down.Schlotzsky’s, Papa John’s Pizza, Ruby Tuesday’s formerly fast-casual Wok Hay concept and Sizzler are...
It’s a tough time to be running a pizza restaurant, but it shouldn’t be that way, according to market research firm The NPD Group.While traffic at quick-service pizza chains has been sluggish for some time, the category remains top of mind for...
The Midwest’s restaurateurs, foodservice workers and diners, along with farmers there who were struggling to grow precious corn and soybean crops, scrambled this month to salvage property and farm fields inundated by a monumental flooding disaster...
SAN DIEGO As gas prices hover at or near record highs, an increasing number of restaurants are trying to drive traffic by offering customers relief in the form of free drinks or food. On June 26, the 2,100-unit Jack in the Box is giving...
LOS ANGELES A district judge here on Monday denied a request for a preliminary injunction filed by Wolfgang Puck in a dispute over use of the name “Wolfgang’s Steakhouse” by an eatery in Beverly Hills, Calif., but a spokesman for Puck vowed they...
Spring is an especially happy season for restaurateurs in northern climates who are dedicated to buying locally produced ingredients. Dean Zanella, executive chef of 312 Chicago, owned by Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, is one of a large group...
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. —The sleeping giant of the snack sector, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, may be waking up from what critics have called a self-inflicted sugar coma spurred on by hyperactive unit growth...
Until the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Americans who thought of Afghanistan at all thought of it as a remote, mountainous and landlocked country, first a pawn in the Cold War, then oppressed by the Taliban. The country’s geographical...
