FSTEC, the annual conference of foodservice information executives and technology vendors, was recently held in Dallas, featuring a wide array of technology and restaurant executives...
Celebrity partnerships are nothing new in the restaurant world. In fact, you could say they go together like French fries and ketchup. McDonald’s began their celebrity-filled journey with Michael Jordan in the 1990s with his signature meal. That’s...
It looks like SHŌ — the NFT-backed restaurant/club in San Francisco that was supposed to open this fall as a two-story “culinary entertainment and nightlife experience” operated under SHŌ Group — is never going to happen. After Nation’s Restaurant...
O’Charley’s — the Nashville, Tenn.-based casual-dining restaurant and bar chain — made the difficult decision last month to close 18 restaurants, or just around 17% of its total portfolio. The 50-year-old chain decided to prune lower-performing...
How long have we been talking about a looming recession at this point? Eight months? A year? Senior food and beverage editor Bret Thorn certainly started bracing for one when banks started failing in March, but the economy actually seems to be...
Subway restaurants said it has entered into an agreement to sell to private-equity firm Roark Capital Group, moving the franchisor into new ownership for the first time since its founding 58 years ago...
Like the breakfast and late-night dayparts, catering took a huge hit from the pandemic. But as events swing back into full gear and businesses attempt to woo employees back to the office via food, catering seems to be experiencing quite a comeback...
Food journalist and former New York Times dining columnist Mark Bittman said in a recent interview with The Guardian that he wants to start a chain of nonprofit restaurants and has been pitching the idea — called Community Kitchen — to...
Taco Bell recently unveiled a 2.0 version of its digital-forward Go Mobile restaurant, about three years after the initial concept was introduced in the throes of the pandemic. The updated asset will play a big role as the chain...
