Financing

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

Financing

4 takeaways from Technomic’s Top 100 sales ranking

A look at the industry's dominant brands reveals some surprising patterns.

Financing

Casual-dining chains end the year right

Among the quarter's winners and losers, casual dining takes gold, says RB's The Bottom Line.

Despite some issues, franchisees are better at running restaurants than franchisors.

Beverage chains share best practices for smaller footprints.

All bottled water is not created equal. Don’t be fooled by a pretty label showing the Rocky Mountains or a pristine lake; that bottle may just as likely contain city tap water.

With health and freshness two of the major forces driving menus today, produce is top on operators’ purchase orders. Indeed, restaurants have been making a big effort to put more fruits and vegetables on the plate. But this effort hit a roadblock with recent E.coli scares and salmonella outbreaks. As a result, food safety has become the priority for suppliers and buyers of fresh produce.

Although chicken and turkey costs are trending slightly upward, they are still better buys than red meat.

In February, 2009 Dunkin Donuts introduced the first breakfast sandwich featuring waffles.

Beer and wine service may be coming to a quickservice restaurant near you. Reportedly, White Castle, Starbucks, Sonic and Burger King’s Whopper Bar are all conducting limited tests.

Although American craft beer gets most of the ink and blog posts these days, there is a lot more happening in the ale arena. With sales of U.S. domestic macrobrews in decline and imports growing at just 1.3 percent, the big brewers are trying harder, with new products and brand extensions.

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