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JUNE 20, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Become a Restaurant Business member today and unlock exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to all of our content. Sign up here. News earnings casual_dining Joe Guszkowski is a senior editor with Restaurant Business covering technology and casual-dining chains.

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AUGUST 11, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News menus LTOs Pat plans and executes menu, food and drink stories for Restaurant Business and hosts the weekly Menu Talk podcast. She provides in-depth coverage of chefs, trends and menu innovation. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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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

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JULY 2, 2025

The 20 puree flavor possibilities were eventually narrowed down to six that were test marketed in Michigan. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Color was a deciding factor, too—the margaritas had stand out on Instagram and other social media platforms.

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JULY 22, 2025

Specifically, Brix plans to expand Friendly’s, an East Coast diner chain, into Southern markets including Georgia, the Carolinas and Texas. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Kohli plans to continue growing Brix’s restaurant network and will also look for more brands to acquire. Sign up here.

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AUGUST 11, 2025

But for now the focus is on dominating in Central Florida with Zaza and, then moving to new markets. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Perez brought in Luis Fernandez, the former COO of Yum Brand’s operations in Spain and Portugal, as a consultant. But he said, “Never say never.”

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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. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Trending Operations Washington, D.C.

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JULY 8, 2025

Domino’s Chief Marketing Officer Kate Trumbull said in a statement that there are 34 million potential combinations of one of the chain’s pizzas, effectively making this a discount on 34 million products, at least through Aug. The deals intensify a tradition of value marketing in the pizza business. Little Caesars is offering a $9.99

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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.

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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.

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JUNE 27, 2025

That led to selling bagels at farmers markets. and Bruegger’s, Jeff sees a world of opportunity for bagels made better, especially in markets he sees as “bagel deserts.” View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? We’d sell out. It was quite a phenomenon for a few months.”

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JUNE 23, 2025

They are popping up more often in conversations this year, and they point toward deeper trends in the restaurant tech market. The rise of this new model could require restaurant marketing departments to change how they develop campaigns and spend their digital ad dollars. This has led to a lot of half-baked products hitting the market.

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JUNE 13, 2025

She previously served as editor in chief of Winsight Grocery Business View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Premium Financing The market for restaurant chains is heating up The Bottom Line: A pair of firms are reportedly making a play for Papa Johns, and Bojangles is apparently on the market again.

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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. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? All are company owned and there are no plans to franchise. At Greenlane, there’s no dine-in service.

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JUNE 11, 2025

11, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Huddle House will add drive-thrus as it moves into more urban and suburban markets. | Many of the changes it is making are intended to help it adapt to these new markets. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? That means you can now get boba at Perkins.

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JUNE 6, 2025

She previously served as editor in chief of Winsight Grocery Business View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News Heather Lalley is the managing editor of Restaurant Business, Foodservice Director and CSP Daily news. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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JUNE 17, 2025

She previously served as editor in chief of Winsight Grocery Business View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Sign up here. retail News Heather Lalley is the managing editor of Restaurant Business, Foodservice Director and CSP Daily news. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

Food

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JULY 21, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Those aggregators have become vital for Domino’s market share, and other chains too. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence. Sign up to receive texts from Restaurant Business on news and insights that matter to your brand.

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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. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? The company responded to this the way any brand should: It slowed growth to a crawl and focused on improving unit volumes and profits.

Franchising

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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. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Those aggregators have become vital for Domino’s market share, and other chains too.

Loyalty Program

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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. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Members help make our journalism possible. Sign up here.

Delivery

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AUGUST 12, 2025

Online ordering provider Olo has long beaten the drum for using digital order data to shape marketing. And DoorDash forced its way into the conversation this spring with the acquisition of SevenRooms, a reservations and marketing platform. Elsewhere in the field, there are other signs that this sort of approach is working. 

Loyalty Program

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JUNE 25, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News leadership Fast_Casual Lisa Jennings is a veteran restaurant industry reporter and editor who covers the fast-casual sector, independent restaurants and emerging chain concepts. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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JUNE 23, 2025

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. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? You can also buy them on Amazon and at some Costco locations. Sign up here.

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JULY 16, 2025

In the first week, Lime Fresh sold over 300 pizzas with no marketing, “which is pretty good for a taco stand,” said Pavano. Now the marketing push is on, and there’s a possibility of line extensions if the sales support that move. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips?

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AUGUST 7, 2025

Then Kfoury plans to look to new markets, including possibly Florida, Texas, Chicago and the Washington, D.C. If you’re able to grow as company-owned, and you’re trying to look for tier-one markets that you can afford owning, why hand it over to someone who could ruin the brand at some point?” An interior of Naya in New York City.

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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. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? And Korean yogurt itself saw a 50% search increase. “We Sign up here. She provides in-depth coverage of chefs, trends and menu innovation.

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AUGUST 5, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News leadership franchising Lisa Jennings is a veteran restaurant industry reporter and editor who covers the fast-casual sector, independent restaurants and emerging chain concepts. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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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. . View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? By Timothy Inklebarger and Joe Guszkowski on Jun.

Reservations

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JULY 9, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News menus Burgers Pat plans and executes menu, food and drink stories for Restaurant Business and hosts the weekly Menu Talk podcast. She provides in-depth coverage of chefs, trends and menu innovation. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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JUNE 11, 2025

marketing retail News Heather Lalley is the managing editor of Restaurant Business, Foodservice Director and CSP Daily news. She previously served as editor in chief of Winsight Grocery Business View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? Sign up here.

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JUNE 24, 2025

The company’s real versus its perceived value could suggest marketing issues, for instance. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? That matters in the current environment, and it has generally helped Chipotle weather storms. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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JULY 25, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News Breakfast Technomic consumers Pat plans and executes menu, food and drink stories for Restaurant Business and hosts the weekly Menu Talk podcast. She provides in-depth coverage of chefs, trends and menu innovation.

Mobile Ordering

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JUNE 18, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News acquisitions franchising Lisa Jennings is a veteran restaurant industry reporter and editor who covers the fast-casual sector, independent restaurants and emerging chain concepts. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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JULY 15, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News management casual_dining Restaurant Business Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze is a longtime industry journalist who writes about restaurant finance, mergers and acquisitions and the economy, with a particular focus on quick-service restaurants.

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JULY 29, 2025

We believe we can take market share and have been taking market share because of that sustained quality.” View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? The chain also continues to see promising results from its loyalty program, Cheesecake Rewards. Sign up here.

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JUNE 24, 2025

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