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.
Seattle restaurateur Tom Douglas went to a local meat purveyor last month to buy chicken and was stunned at the $54 tab for two organically grown birds.“I had no idea what they cost, or I would have never bought them,” he says, “and the people...
Don’t tell Jim Sahene restaurant work is a dead-end job. Once the manager of a lone TCBY store in Little Rock, Ark., he is now chief executive of Bruster’s Real Ice Cream, a Bridgewater, Pa.-based premium ice cream purveyor with more...
With a soaring economy that is helping to create a huge middle class and an enduring friendship with the United States, India is emerging as the new China for American restaurant brands eager to expand in Asia.Given India’s status as the plan-et’s...
Fine-dining restaurateurs are likely to face a challenging new year as the U.S. economy loses steam and operators across all segments step up their efforts to lure spending-conscious consumers already wrestling with skyrocketing energy costs.Even...
Expectations for foodservice sales growth in the year ahead aren’t just muted, but are downright alarming for some operators and industry analysts.Reflecting near-universal apprehension, forecasts for the restaurant industry’s performance in 2008...
Expectations for foodservice sales growth in the year ahead aren’t just muted, but are downright alarming for some operators and industry analysts.Reflecting near-universal apprehension, forecasts for the restaurant industry’s performance in 2008...
SALES FORECASTAs the nation’s economy continues to sputter, restaurateurs in New England say they expect to see sluggish sales growth in 2008, much the same as they did a year ago, and will be happy just to hold their own by implementing such...
SALES FORECASTRestaurant sales in the Midwest are expected to increase by 3.7 percent in 2008, or just 0.1 percent after factoring in menu price inflation, the lowest predicted regional rise.That lackluster outlook can be blamed on several pockets...
SALES FORECAST Aggregate restaurant sales across the West are expected to grow at a slower rate of 4.7 percent in 2008, reaching $78.10 billion, according to the National Restaurant Association’s annual projections. The West would...
SALES FORECASTTime was when a recession hit the Mid-Atlantic region, it hit hard and overstayed its intrusion.The region was often among the first parts of the country to feel the squeeze of an economic slowdown and often among the last regions to...
