First Bite

While restaurants have been selling their products in supermarkets and convenience stores for decades — from frozen White Castle sliders to TGI Fridays mozzarella sticks — recently, foodservice CPG has entered a new social media-conscious era...

Two major California Pizza Hut franchisees — PacPizza and Southern California Pizza Company — are laying off more than 1,200 delivery workers ahead of the new statewide minimum wage hike for fast food workers, from $16 an hour to $20 an...

Undeniably one of the biggest trends of 2023 was restaurant brands leveraging influencers on social media to sell their products. ...

Consumers said they were going to dine out during the holidays, and recently released data indicates they did just that...

One week after the release of the third-party assessment of Starbucks’ collective bargaining commitments in December 2023, the Strategic Organizing Center — a coalition of labor unions provoking a proxy battle with the...

4 predictions from senior food & beverage editor Bret Thorn...

Earlier this year, Nation’s Restaurant News and Datassential partnered to present The Top 500, the definitive sales ranking of restaurants in America...

White Castle is showing off the strength of its late-night business through a new merch line collaboration with Fat Joe, a rapper who has been nominated for several Grammy, iHeartRadio, BET and MTV Video Music awards. The merchandise includes...

Starbucks is appealing to the Supreme Court to attempt to reverse a previous lower court decision that had compelled the Seattle-based coffee chain to reinstate formerly terminated employees. Starbucks announced Wednesday in a press...