IHOP this week announced the largest menu evolution in its 65-plus-year history will be available nationwide starting April 3. Notably, this news comes on the heels of several menu moves made by the company throughout the past five years – from...
Chipotle United — which represents workers from the Augusta, Maine Chipotle restaurant that was closed last year just before the store was supposed to vote on unionizing — announced a settlement with the company Monday morning...
Menu ebbs and flows are part of the restaurant business. Taco Bell, Wendy’s and KFC have all recently dropped and added menu items. For Chick-fil-A, however, the menu hasn’t experienced many changes until fairly recently. ...
New Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan addressed investors for the first time at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Thursday shortly after taking the helm at the Seattle-based coffee chain earlier than expected. The day before Narasimhan...
A new report from Brand Finance reiterates what many of us have been seeing for some time now – Texas Roadhouse is on a tear. The brand valuation consultancy company’s annual report on the most valuable and strongest restaurant brands...
Papa Johns and Pizza Hut have touted their third-party delivery partnerships as a boon to their financial performance. Quarter after quarter, Papa Johns CEO Rob Lynch has credit third-party aggregators with helping to boost some of the post...
Looking at the big picture, the major pizza players have all seen major growth since the start of the pandemic: Papa Johns saw the most change at 30% same-store sales growth over the past three years, Domino’s was up over 14% since the start of...
Pizza — the unofficial food of the COVID-19 pandemic — experienced an explosion of sales growth in 2020 and 2021 as the go-to delivery food of choice. But what goes up, must come down and by 2023, two of the pizza industry giants — Domino’s and...
While we’ve known for over a decade that punch cards are not enough to keep customers’ interest, as it turns out—traditional digital rewards programs are starting to become passé as well. Enter the NFT membership program: brands from Wow Bao...
The Women’s Foodservice Forum is an annual event – with activations throughout the year digitally – where women and male allies gather to discuss issues like pay parity, gender equality, childcare, burnout and more...
