Menu Tracker: New items from McDonald’s, Sonic Drive-In, and Taco Bell
Plus innovation at Another Broken Egg Cafe, Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, Baskin-Robbins, Black Rock Coffee Bar, Bojangles, Burgerville, Charleys Cheesesteaks and more.
How Papa Johns plans to make its franchisees more profitable
Papa Johns is lowering its required marketing expenditure from 8% to 6%, enabling franchisees to pick up 200 basis points of margin at the restaurant level.
Burger King parent company to acquire Carrols Restaurant Group
Restaurant Brands International is acquiring Carrols, the largest Burger King franchisee in the U.S. with 1,022 locations, for a total enterprise value of $1 billion.
How Dave & Buster’s is ‘fixing’ its food and beverage program
The restaurant company is moving from a bottom line/labor management focus to a modernization focus, with investments to its food and beverage program, activities, facilities, and more.
Boston Market announces new buy-in-free franchise program amid company failures
Applebee’s embraces its date night reputation with a new subscription pass
Applebee’s Date Night Pass is available for $200, providing cardholders with up to $30 on food and non-alcoholic drinks per use for 52 weeks.
Salad and Go is opening a store a week with plans to expand ‘into the thousands’
Providing affordable, accessible, healthy food is Salad and Go’s mission and the company achieves that through a ‘central kitchen’ model.
Next Level Burger acquires Veggie Grill
Bonchon names Suzie Tsai as U.S. CEO
South Korean fried chicken restaurant concept promotes chief growth officer to succeed Bryan Shin, who will focus on international development
McDonald’s brings the Double Big Mac back to the U.S.
McDonald’s Double Big Mac was first introduced on the restaurant menu in early March 2020 and includes four beef patties and additional sauce.
