Restaurant Business

AUGUST 5, 2025

Cindy Klein Roche | Photo by Mark Weinberg While companies have been using catering as a return-to-office incentive, food has now evolved into a vehicle to drive productivity and collaboration, Roche explains. About 59% of those who place workplace orders are swayed by the menu, with budget-friendliness following close behind at 37%.

Catering

Restaurant Business

JULY 22, 2025

22, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Bret Thorn, senior food & beverage editor of Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality, visited Atlantic City’s Ocean Casino Resort, which just opened two new concepts from restaurateur Stephen Starr. By Patricia Cobe and Bret Thorn on Jul. The pair discussed new offers from Carl’s Jr.,

Loyalty Program

Restaurant Business

JULY 3, 2025

The sale comes just four years after Olo went public, and ends a difficult period on the public markets. Its core product is online ordering, but it has expanded into marketing and customer engagement as well as payment processing. per share for the online ordering and payment company just four years after Olo went public.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

They are popping up more often in conversations this year, and they point toward deeper trends in the restaurant tech market. One example is OpenAI’s Operator, a tool that can perform web-based tasks like making a restaurant reservation or ordering food from a delivery app. Add these six terms to your vocabulary.

Hiring

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 7, 2025

Those new shops continue to generate strong sales thanks to investments in marketing and other efforts when it opens in new markets and locations. We’re seeing really nice, strong results across our different markets,” Barone said, noting that the strongest performing shop last week was in Georgia. It expects revenues of $1.59

Point of Sale

Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

23, 2025 Photograph: RATIONAL Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Maintaining clean and hygienic equipment is one of the most important tasks in food service — and also one of the most despised. Most of all, it’s not nearly as much fun as preparing food and serving customers, the reason most people love working in food service.

Food Supply

Restaurant Business

JULY 2, 2025

The 20 puree flavor possibilities were eventually narrowed down to six that were test marketed in Michigan. The new menu format makes it easier for customers to pair drinks and food. Another change tested in Michigan was collapsing the beverage and food menu back into one after previously offering separate menus for food and drink.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JULY 22, 2025

Specifically, Brix plans to expand Friendly’s, an East Coast diner chain, into Southern markets including Georgia, the Carolinas and Texas. Kohli plans to continue growing Brix’s restaurant network and will also look for more brands to acquire. Kohli started at Friendly’s as a waiter at age 15 and began operating locations in 2009. “I

Franchising

Restaurant Business

JULY 8, 2025

deals this week as fast-food pizza chains work to reverse stubbornly weak sales. deals this week as fast-food pizza chains work to reverse stubbornly weak sales. deals this week as fast-food pizza chains work to reverse stubbornly weak sales. The deals intensify a tradition of value marketing in the pizza business.

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EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The most accurate measure of land or CO2 “saved” by ordering a PLNT Burger is only attained if every purchase were originally intended to be for a fast-food beef burger instead. These numbers are largely hypothetical. Congratulations. So he took action.

Sustainability

Restaurant Business

JULY 29, 2025

The Farmstand as marketing tool Calling the made-to-order menu of value meals “Farmstand Fresh & Affordable” reinforces Farmer Boys’ farm-fresh roots. To amplify the message and promote the new boxes, the marketing team organizes events at select locations and sets up an actual farmstand filled with fresh produce. Sign up here.

Menu

Restaurant Business

JULY 9, 2025

Zero-waste, high-fiber snack bars Food What operators should know about ancient grains Sponsored content from our partner Furmano’s on Jul. If you’re looking to incorporate international dishes into your menu, either to explore global themes or for educational food programs, ancient grain-based options are a great choice.

Operations

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 7, 2025

Chef Lamar doesn’t just cook Southern food—he pushes it forward. The way you grew up, the flavors you knew—those are what make your food yours. His food hits because it’s personal—and it performs because it’s thoughtful. Here’s what he shared. It’s not about reinventing the wheel. It’s not about reinventing the wheel.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 8, 2025

That’s the lesson for Papa Johns, which under CEO Todd Penegor has returned much of its marketing focus on its core pizza product, rather than sides and sandwiches such as Papadias and Papa Bites. The company also shifted away from local marketing in a belief that national marketing was more efficient. Photo: Shutterstock.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JULY 28, 2025

Since then, the company said that it has generated 18 straight quarters of same-store sales growth, expanded into new markets, developed new products and launched a marketing cooperative with its franchisees. The company had been owned by the founding family until 2021, when it was sold to the private-equity firm Peak Rock Capital.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 27, 2025

That led to selling bagels at farmers markets. Los Angeles has become a hotbed for bagel concepts like Courage Bagels, Hank’s Bagels, the Yeastie Boys food trucks, and more. and Bruegger’s, Jeff sees a world of opportunity for bagels made better, especially in markets he sees as “bagel deserts.” We’d sell out.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JUNE 13, 2025

The fast-food franchisor is asking a federal court to sign off on its decision to terminate Paradigm Investment Group’s franchise agreement. Private-equity firm Savory Fund made a major investment in casual-dining chain Hawkers Asian Street Food. million last year, that’s more than double the next closest chain. Sign up here.

Operations

Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

11, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Huddle House will add drive-thrus as it moves into more urban and suburban markets. | The Atlanta-based company is hoping that more modern food and restaurants will help its brands break through with younger consumers. That means you can now get boba at Perkins. By Joe Guszkowski on Jun.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

The three-unit chain has two more under construction in the Tampa Bay area, and another five to seven are planned in 2026, reaching the Orlando market. Salad is rising as the next drive-thru concept Technology Tech supplier SpotOn launches a mobile app to compete with aggregators Food C-stores are stealing fast-food tactics.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

Continue to Site >>> Menu C-stores are stealing fast-food tactics. Not quite yet An easy way to bring bold Korean flavors to modern menus From BBQ to beverages, menus are seeing a lot of action Food C-stores are stealing fast-food tactics. Photo: Shutterstock Made-to-order food, value offerings, loyalty programs.

Food

Restaurant Business

JULY 21, 2025

In Canada, restaurants offer about 100 items, but Luo said the company is still building the supply chain for U.S. Those aggregators have become vital for Domino’s market share, and other chains too. It’s almost like a supermarket display,” said Luo. What you see is what you’re going to get.” Whether theyre working is another thing.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 11, 2025

The two fan favorites, off the chicken chain’s menu for several years, are returning as limited-time offers while supplies last. Potato Wedges were discontinued in 2020, but the Louisville, Kentucky, fast-food brand reported that since then, the call for their return garnered thousands of social media comments and online petition signatures. 

Menu

Restaurant Business

JUNE 12, 2025

The company plans to expand into more markets and expects to have thousands of bots on the ground by the end of the year, which it says will give it the largest autonomous vehicle fleet in the world. Employees then load the food into a robot and send it on its way. The customer unlocks their food using a code in their delivery app.

Delivery

Restaurant Business

JUNE 6, 2025

The salad chain said it also sees opportunity in California, where the fast-food minimum wage is $20 per hour. Members help make our journalism possible. Sweetgreen says its high-tech Infinite Kitchens could mitigate the impact of a $30 minimum wage being proposed in New York. Sign Up Thanks for signing up!

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JULY 22, 2025

It also spent a lot of time marketing and added new types of desserts such as pies and cakes to its lineup. The company responded to this the way any brand should: It slowed growth to a crawl and focused on improving unit volumes and profits. After adding 264 locations in 2022 and 281 in 2023, Crumbl added just 87 new restaurants in 2024.

Franchising

Restaurant Business

JULY 21, 2025

The company under former CEO Chidsey, whose job was to guide the company through a sale process, upgraded the menu, improved marketing and reorganized the corporate structure. But store closures have returned this year amid a difficult operating environment for much of the fast-food space. By Jonathan Maze on Jul.

Loyalty Program

SpotOn

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The idea is for your restaurant to reflect the festive spirit while taking into account the realities of supply chain pressures and inflation. With this information, you'll know how many employees to schedule and how many food supplies to order. Use email and social media to promote gift cards and drive holiday sales.

Loyalty Program

Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

And fast-food customers Chef Jonathon Sawyer discusses his Chicago restaurant, Kindling, and his latest TV appearance Are we reaching peak chicken tender saturation on menus? It’s easy to score what’s marketed as a Dubai Chocolate Bar at specialty retail food stores; in New York City a 7-ounce bar sells for about $19.

Bar

Restaurant Business

JUNE 13, 2025

Photo: Shutterstock San Francisco-based delivery service DoorDash announced Friday that it has completed its purchase of SevenRooms, a New York-City-based reservations and marketing platform for restaurants. billion and international food delivery service Deliveroo for $3.9 billion, both in cash.

Reservations

Restaurant Business

JULY 16, 2025

But CEO Patrick Fore is a big Taco Bell fan, and he was impressed by the way the Mexican fast-food giant hacked a menu category by developing a pizza, said Jon Pavano, brand director of operations for Miami-born Lime Fresh. Now the marketing push is on, and there’s a possibility of line extensions if the sales support that move.

Menu

Restaurant Business

JUNE 25, 2025

Premium Food California Pizza Kitchens salad lineup gets a refresh with trendsetting additions Behind the Menu: The casual-dining chain may have “pizza” in its name, but since salads account for 20% of sales, the time was right to innovate with new formats, ingredients and presentations.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 9, 2025

To put the new Whopper on the menu, the Miami-based fast-food burger chain had to bring in the brisket, Carolina gold BBQ sauce and crispy onions. “A Both are available while supplies last. News menus Burgers Pat plans and executes menu, food and drink stories for Restaurant Business and hosts the weekly Menu Talk podcast.

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Restaurant Business

AUGUST 7, 2025

07, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Naya is the Chipotle of Lebanese food. Then Kfoury plans to look to new markets, including possibly Florida, Texas, Chicago and the Washington, D.C. By Lisa Jennings on Aug. Photo courtesy of Naya. Americans love their hummus. An interior of Naya in New York City. Photo courtesy of Naya.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 8, 2025

We all remember when there was a fro-yo shop on every corner back in the 2010s, but eventually the market got a bit saturated. consumers News menu trends Pat plans and executes menu, food and drink stories for Restaurant Business and hosts the weekly Menu Talk podcast. And Korean yogurt itself saw a 50% search increase. “We

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

The convenience-retailing giant on Wednesday announced a Craveables Value Menu, pitting it in head-to-head competition with fast-food chains also looking to win consumers over with low prices. The prices for both restaurant food and food from grocery and convenience stores rose 0.3% Food prices overall are up 2.9%

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 11, 2025

Photo courtesy of Zaza Cuban Comfort Food. Perez is now focused on building Zaza Cuban Comfort Food, a 10-unit regional chain in Central Florida with another six or seven expected to open in the next 18 months or so. Photo courtesy of Zaza Cuban Comfort Food. By Lisa Jennings on Aug. And that’s how Zaza was born in 2013.”

Fast Casual

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 5, 2025

Premium Food Saladworks goes all in on pickles and ranch for limited-time summer menu Behind the Menu: The fast casual is offering a salad, melt and wrap inspired by the ingredients’ tangy flavors and crunch, each elevated with house-made pickle ranch. But that strategy raises some real questions.

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