The nation’s leading pizza chains have always competed on product and price, but the use of new technology as a marketing channel is becoming just as important as the latest meal deal or promotional item.Interactive campaigns, mobile coupons and...
As their aggregate top-line and new-unit growth rates slowed, the nation’s 100 largest foodservice brands nonetheless punched through the $200 billion barrier in U.S. systemwide sales in their latest full fiscal years, only to confront worsening...
Despite consumers’ abiding attraction to indulgent sweets and specialty drinks, the industry’s leading beverage and snack chains are proving not to be immune to economic and competitive pressures.The segment has witnessed changes in leadership...
Feathers have been flying in the quick-service chicken sector as two major brands retool under new ownership, a third adjusts to a change in executive leadership and all struggle to compensate for soaring commodity costs and endlessly spiraling...
Despite rising costs, slower traffic at some accounts and other challenges stemming from the lethargic economy, contract foodservice providers say they are working to hold their own, with some even reporting slight growth in certain sectors...
THIS 35TH EDITION OF NATION’S RESTAURANT NEWS’ ANNUAL Top 100 report is the first installment of a comprehensive two-part study, generated through exclusive research by the editors of the publication.The Top 100 report and the forthcoming Second...
Changes in the buffet segment seem inevitable as the largest player, Eagan, Minn.-based Buffets Holdings Inc., continues restructuring efforts following its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in January. The operator and franchisor, which is...
