Nation’s Restaurant News teams up with Datassential and its Firefly data platform to present a look at the restaurant landscape that tracks the performance of the largest 500 chains.
Now more than ever, creative advertising and innovative promotions are the keys to bringing cost-conscious diners into casual-dining restaurants, according to marketing executives for chains in the segment.The obvious reward is a quick sales...
Restaurateurs looking to attract the nation’s growing number of Hispanics as customers and employees are finding themselves caught in the mounting tensions of the shifting demographic landscape.As more operators introduce menus, training tools and...
It would not surprise Steve Jackson, president of Hungry Howie’s Pizza, if some marginal operators in the pizza segment were forced out of business this year. “We’re on the verge of a little bit of a shakeout,” he says, blaming high...
Even as soaring commodity prices, especially for wheat and oil, exert unprecedented pressures on the industry’s top and bottom lines, operators in the bakery-cafe segment are fighting back by adding new products and portion sizes, strengthening...
