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.
Foodservice operators menu the foods consumers prefer and they know handheld foods rank high with their customers, as evidenced by research house Technomic’s recent findings that, industrywide, 80.7% of the operators it tracks offer holdable...
Although 2023 was a fantastic year for restaurant growth — with U.S. restaurant sales in the Technomic Top 500 increasing by 7.8% with the highest rate of unit growth in seven years — not every brand was a winner.
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Rising prime costs and consumer inflation fatigue have many restaurateurs scrambling to find ways to maintain profits without price hikes or sacrificing the product and service qualities that build customer loyalty and traffic...
