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.
Slammed with rising costs, on-site feeders in the Second 100 are looking for inconspicuous ways to streamline their operations. From cutting back-office labor to seeking out alternative products and buying more locally, contract operators say...
When life gives you such lemons as rising energy, labor and food costs and falling consumer confidence and spending, make lemonade — or rather Mint Lemonade, Freckled Lemonade, Berry Good Lemonade, and lemonade and vodka, or mix lemon and...
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...
