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How your restaurant sales and profits compare to competitors' and what you can do to improve financial performance

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If you're going to discount, tread carefully

 By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 29, 2023

The Bottom Line: Consumers could easily shift into value mode as they start repaying student loans and run out of pandemic cash. But that doesn’t mean you should start slashing prices.

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Krystal hopes selling some restaurants will spur growth

 By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 29, 2023

The burger chain is planning a “strategic refranchising program,” refranchising restaurants in certain markets to operators that then build more locations.

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These are the restaurant chains that closed the most locations in 2022

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 29, 2023

Papa Murphy’s, Baskin-Robbins and Burger King are among the chains that closed the most net restaurants last year. But one big chain stands out.

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Roark Capital solidifies its status as the go-to fast-food buyer

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 25, 2023

The Bottom Line: The 22-year-old private equity firm has been involved in many of the industry’s biggest deals, especially in recent years. And Subway isn’t even the biggest.

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Subway's complex sale process comes to its expected conclusion

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 24, 2023

The Bottom Line: The lengthy sale process and the apparent deal terms in Roark Capital’s winning bid reveal just how difficult a turnaround the sandwich giant is.

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Roark Capital has a deal to buy Subway

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 24, 2023

The private equity firm, which owns Inspire Brands and Focus Brands among other restaurant companies, won an eight-month auction for the sandwich giant.

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Southern chain Fatz Cafe closes all 18 locations

By Joe Guszkowski on Aug. 24, 2023

The brand had been in decline for years after peaking at nearly 50 units in 2011. It’s part of a rash of restaurant closures recently.

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Why so many restaurant chains are closing locations right now

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 23, 2023

The Bottom Line: Veggie Grill, O’Charley’s, Burger King, Boston Market, Steak n Shake and others have been closing doors this year as they work through various challenges.

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Why the restaurant industry attracts so many fraudsters

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 23, 2023

A Deeper Dive: RB Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo joins me on the podcast to talk about some of the more colorful events in the restaurant industry’s history.

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O'Charley's closes 18 restaurants in one day as sales struggle

By Joe Guszkowski on Aug. 23, 2023

The chain has been hit hard by changing trade areas and, more recently, soaring inflation. It believes the "pruning" will help its 91 remaining stores.

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