NRN surveyed over 400 restaurant operators for our latest market leader report. Discover how these industry leaders are leveraging data to shape their strategies and drive success.
MIAMI Friendship endures. It looks like the Burger King “Whopper Sacrifice” has been sacrificed. At the first of the year, Burger King released the “Whopper Sacrifice” application on the social-networking Facebook website...
CARPINTERIA Calif. CKE Restaurants Inc. said Thursday it had capped off its nearly two-year Hardee’s refranchising program with the sale of 11 Hardee’s restaurants in Missouri. Since the company began efforts to sell corporate restaurants...
SAN ANTONIO At Pizza Patrón's 2007 franchisee conference, founder and CEO Anthony Swad unveiled a drawing of the company's store of the future: a freestanding, pad-built 1,200 square-foot unit with a veritable three-way freeway of distribution...
When it comes to inventory management, everyone knows FIFO means "first in, first out." But when it comes to food safety at Pizza Patrón, FIFO could also mean "fast in, fast out." For a several years, the 84-unit, Dallas-based chain's menu...
OGDEN Utah Taco Maker Inc., the franchisor of more than 185 quick-service restaurants, said it plans to open 25 more units this year in the United States and Puerto Rico. The largest Mexican quick-service brand in Puerto Rico, Taco Maker...
BATON ROUGE La. Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, the 80-unit quick-service chain based here, has promoted Brad Sanders to chief development officer and Ian Vaughn to senior vice president of operations. Sanders, most recently...
RIDGELAND Miss. Fast-casual sandwich chain McAlister’s Deli said it has appointed Bill McClintock to the newly created position of senior vice president of development. His first official duty for the nearly 300-unit chain will be developing an...
NEW YORK Restaurant operators large and small provided their outlooks for the year ahead -- and most of them were not pretty. At the seventh annual Cowen & Co. consumer investment conference in New York, which took place Monday and Tuesday...
BOSTON Uno Chicago Grill on Tuesday said they would speed up the national rollout of new gluten-free pizzas after strong consumer demand during market tests of the products. Uno officials said the gluten-free option has received a...
