Alan J. Liddle

Managing Editor, Special Projects , Nation’s Restaurant News

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Alan J. Liddle's duties include research and analysis for the Top 200, an annual three-year look at the U.S. sales, units and revenue of leading foodservice chains and companies. Liddle, who joined NRN in 1984 after working for daily and weekly newspapers and restaurants, also helps develop content for NRN conferences and webinars and reports on operations, technology and food safety. A graduate of Cal State Fullerton, he is married, with sons, 19 and 14.

Alan’s Recent activity

2017 Top 100: Appendix

Jun 29, 2017

This is part of the Nation’s Restaurant News annual Top 100 report, a proprietary ranking of the foodservice industry’s largest restaurant chains and parent companies.

The NRN Top 200 “chains” that never were

Jan 28, 2015

Panera Saint Paradise Cafe? Hardee Carl’s? Sweet Plantation? Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of these large foodservice brands, as they are simply name collages I concocted to represent the extended resta...