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Yes, restaurants are losing traffic to grocers and convenience stores

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Crumbl tries something different to boost sales: Smaller cookies

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Menu trends at RLC, how a St. Louis chef is elevating sushi, and hot sauces and LTOs in the spotlight

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Virtual brands are getting a little physical

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Group aiming to lower swipe fees steals a page from the opposition's playbook

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For Papa Johns, the CEO departure came at the wrong time

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Ensuring Food Safety: How Better Equipment Helps

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Bartaco parlays learnings from delivery into new catering program

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For Papa Johns, the CEO departure came at the wrong time

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Greg Flynn expands his Applebee’s empire

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Crumbl tries something different to boost sales: Smaller cookies

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Your quick morning dose of the restaurant news you need, every weekday, from the editors of Restaurant Business.

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"A Deeper Dive" is a weekly podcast from Restaurant Business dedicated to going in-depth on the most pressing challenges and opportunities restaurant operators face today, hosted by Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze.

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“Menu Feed”, formally Menu Feed, is a weekly podcast hosted by Pat Cobe of Restaurant Business and Bret Thorn with Nation’s Restaurant News.

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"Restaurant Rewind" is a weekly podcast hosted by Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo as he looks at the people, concepts and trends that helped create the restaurant industry as we know it today.

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Working Lunch is a podcast from Align Public Strategies devoted to explaining the so what and now what about key issues impacting the restaurant and retail industries.

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Financing

The Tijuana Flats bankruptcy highlights the dangers of menu miscues

The Bottom Line: The fast-casual chain’s problems following new menu debuts in 2021 and 2022 show that adding new items isn’t always the right idea.

Financing

For Papa Johns, the CEO departure came at the wrong time

The Bottom Line: The pizza chain worked to convince franchisees to buy into a massive marketing shift. And then the brand’s CEO left.

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Restaurants bring the industry's concerns to Congress

Nearly 600 operators made their case to lawmakers as part of the National Restaurant Association’s Public Affairs Conference.

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Workforce

Biden administration kills the non-compete agreement

The FTC voted Tuesday to ban contractual limits on where a departing employee can work next, a move it says will foster startups and innovation.

Operations

Retail-restaurant hybrids Foxtrot, Dom's cease operations

The brands' recently formed parent company, Outfox Hospitality, has shut down all 35 of its locations in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas.

Workforce

Overtime pay to be extended to salaried employees earning less than $43,888

The pool of managers entitled to time-and-a-half pay will jump again on Jan. 1, then increase every three years.

Financing

Oberweis Dairy finds a buyer

The principal of another Illinois food manufacturer has offered to buy the chain of ice cream shops and its sister businesses.

Operations

Check what ground beef is in your freezer, USDA advises

The agency's food safety arm has been alerted that ground beef products possibly contaminated with E. coli have made it to market.

Financing

Greg Flynn expands his Applebee’s empire

Flynn, already the world’s largest franchisee of the casual-dining chain, is acquiring 26 restaurants from an existing franchisee and is making plans to open 25 new locations by 2031.