2+ week, 4+ day ago   (396+ words) Wingstop didn’t have much to write home about during the second quarter, with same-store sales down by 7.5% as lower-income consumers, with whom the chain overindexes, continued to pull back on their spending. That’s not to say there weren’t any bright…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (941+ words) McDonald’s executives have big plans for the chain in the coming years. In addition to its beverage expansion, it is plotting to upgrade its chicken, testing new technologies and service models, and is preparing another, major round of store remodels…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (649+ words) Consumers may or may not be rediscovering their love of casual dining restaurants, but investors sure are. In a year in which the restaurant industry’s performance has been largely muted, again, a handful of full-service chains have stood out, thanks…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (593+ words) Throughout the past couple of years, we’ve written an awful lot about sauce innovation, but it now seems the conversation is evolving a bit into flavor enhancements through seasonings. Take Jollibee’s new Jolly Flavor Fries. Available for $4.49 through Oct. 13, the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (909+ words) I now understand more about Cubanos, and possibly less about chain restaurant menu development. I’m fresh off of a visit to Miami as a guest of Hat Creek Burger Company, a 26-unit chain out of Austin, Texas, that decided to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (410+ words) When Chipotle this week announced a partnership with 16-year-old influencer Salish Matter, I knew we had turned a corner as an industry. While Matter herself is technically Gen Z, her audience — more than 37 million followers — is primarily Gen Alpha, or…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (660+ words) Two, struggling fast-food burger chains made personnel changes involving presidents, with one president out, and another in. And both illustrate the problems companies have when they change management too much. Early in the week, Wendy’s announced that its U.S. president,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (203+ words) Just when you thought it was safe to go to restaurants, there’s this: Bagels are making a comeback. This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast The Week in Restaurants looks at the planned expansion of Einstein Bros. Bagels and…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (839+ words) Leading up to the summer of 2020, restaurants were struggling. Selling toilet paper and creating elaborate family to-go meals were simply not enough to make up for the empty dining rooms at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, came a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (522+ words) Americans love their steak, but for many, the cost of beef has put it out of reach at the grocery store and in traditional steakhouses. Outback is working hard to fill the gap as the casual-dining destination for steak. It…...