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Year in review

Operations

The restaurant industry’s biggest winners in 2021

 By Joe Guszkowski on Dec. 21, 2021

See why steak chains, college athletes and labor unions had a good year.

Food

Top menu trends of 2021

 By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 21, 2021

As America emerged from pandemic restrictions, some 2020 food and drink trends strengthened while new ones gained ground.

Financing

IPOs or Fat Brands: The year in restaurant mergers and acquisitions

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 21, 2021

The industry continued to consolidate in 2021, while restaurants returned to the public markets with surprising eagerness.

Operations

In 2021, a surprise recovery is met with a more surprising labor shortage

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 21, 2021

The year’s biggest story was an unprecedented lack of workers that left operators closing services, reducing hours and dramatically increasing pay.

Leadership

5 restaurant leaders to pay attention to in 2022

By Joe Guszkowski on Dec. 21, 2021

A few of these executives jumped on our radar after making a splash in 2021, while others are laying the groundwork for intriguing innovations in the years ahead.

Operations

The year in restaurant design trends

By Heather Lalley on Dec. 21, 2021

The pandemic pushed operators to unveil a flurry of new prototypes in 2021, codifying the changes in consumer behavior brought on by the crisis in updated designs.

Leadership

What were they thinking???

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 21, 2021

Politics, poorly considered comparisons, bad texts and poorly conceived relief plans: The biggest restaurant blunders of 2021.

Technology

The year in restaurant technology

By Joe Guszkowski on Dec. 21, 2021

What we got right and wrong about tech going into 2021, plus the developments we didn’t see coming.

Marketing

2015’s marketing highs and lows

By Kelsey Squire on Dec. 10, 2015

A look back reveals which restaurant chains struck out, and which ones knocked it out of the park.

Technology

8 top tech developments of 2015

By Sara Rush Wirth on Dec. 23, 2015

Restaurants are realizing they need to pay as much attention to technology as they traditionally have to such success factors as food and operations. Here are the developments that demanded that focus in the past year.

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