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Jonathan Maze

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Financing

Restaurants are employing more cooks, but fewer servers

While employment in the industry is down overall, that decline is not spread evenly as operators shift toward production and away from service. But everybody is making more money.

Financing

The better-burger revolution that wasn't

The Bottom Line: Remember when the fast-casual burger business was going to take loads of share from traditional fast-food chains? It never quite got there.

Financing

How Taco John's responded to the 'Taco Tuesday' challenge

A Deeper Dive: Barry Westrum, chief marketing officer for the Mexican fast-food chain, joins the podcast to discuss the trademark battle with Taco Bell.

Financing

Here come the restaurant IPOs

The Bottom Line: Cava Group’s filing of its initial public offering documents could be the first of a few industry IPOs this year. But restaurant M&A remains weak.

Marketing

A look inside the Papa Johns test kitchen

The kitchen is the centerpiece of the pizza chain’s new Atlanta headquarters, which makes sense. Innovation has been the centerpiece of the chain’s comeback.

Leadership

Bonchon names Bryan Shin its U.S. CEO

The Korean fried-chicken chain promoted its CFO to take over for Flynn Dekker.

Marketing

Taco Bell enlists LeBron James in its 'Taco Tuesday' tilt

The NBA star, who once tried to register the phrase himself, is joining the effort to cancel Taco John’s trademark.

Financing

Former Famous Dave's investor makes a $12M bid for Corner Bakery

The hedge fund Wexford Capital, including Famous Dave’s former CEO Jeff Crivello, has an opening bid in an auction for the fast-casual bakery-cafe chain.

Technology

6 takeaways from the first 2 days of the National Restaurant Show

And no, this account wasn’t written by an AI bot to ease two journalists’ lives.

Financing

The end of the pandemic has been tough on virtual brands and ghost kitchens

The Bottom Line: Burger King’s parent closing its KYLO Food Hall and layoffs at Nextbite suggest that some of the biggest ideas to come out of the pandemic are having a tough time making it on the other side.

Operations

At the National Restaurant Association Show, technology moves to the back of the house

Robots were everywhere. But much of the technology focus was on improving profitability and simplifying operations as costs increase and recession looms.

Financing

Fast-food restaurants need to slow their price increases

The Bottom Line: Operators have kept their foot on the pricing gas this year even as inflation shows signs of easing and profits improve. But with the economy nearing a recession, it’s time to slow down.

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