Restaurant Business Daily

A true business intelligence tool helping operators become more efficient and profitable, Restaurant Business Daily eNewsletter gives restaurateurs tips and tools from RestaurantBusinessOnline.com's most recent postings and from around the web.

Shake Shack eyes IPO

Danny Meyer's popular burger chain reportedly is preparing to following a string of others, including El Pollo Loco, Zoes Kitchen and Papa Murphy's, by lining up an IPO, according to insiders.

Financing

MOD Pizza lands another $33M in equity funding

The chain, which has just passed the 300-store mark, says the money will go toward expansion this year.

Close to 60% of Pokemon Go downloaders said they would go into a business serving up Pokemon-theme discounts.

Brands that fail to integrate easy-to-understand visuals risk falling behind, says market-researcher Mintel.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has said he’ll sign the measure if it’s voted out of the legislature. As with the new Indiana law, the bill would grant restaurants and other businesses the prerogative of refusing service to someone who clashed with their religious beliefs. Fear of discrimination against gays has already led to convention cancellations in the Hoosier State.

The opening of two traditional stores is the first step in blitzing the West Coast, a market the donut king has failed to crack in previous attempts.

Acquisitions have made KBP Foods one of the largest and fastest-growing franchises in the restaurant business. But the key to absorbing the expansion has been a notion that harkens back to the earliest days of KFC.

Her focus will shift from thousands of stores to 28 units.

Launching “fewer, more impactful products” played a part, the chain’s parent company said.

A proposal under consideration in the statehouse would mandate that indoor play areas be cleaned at least once daily.

  • Page 882