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Sara Rush Wirth

Articles by
Sara Rush Wirth

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Operations

7 remedies for restaurant problems arriving tomorrow

Potholes, dead ahead! The first two days of the Restaurant Leadership Conference brought to light a number of looming problems--as well as some possible solutions.

2017 Restaurant Leader of the Year credits his team with the honor

Arby's CEO Paul Brown accepts the top award at the Restaurant Leadership Conference.

Financing

The biggest winners in 2017 may be the ones that lose the least

Preliminary results of a new report paint a not-so-rosy picture for the restaurant industry, with chains struggling to gain market share.

Operations

Are QSRs the real hotbeds of innovation?

In the last few years, the build-your-own Chipotle-style fast casuals really hit their stride, expanding into almost any type of cuisine people could think of.

Food

Scouting Arby’s

One Friday, five Restaurant Business editors trekked over to the Arby’s in Chicago’s Ogilvie train station to check out the brand's loaded curly fries.

Emerging Brands

Concepts to scout in Phoenix

From Fox Restaurant Concepts, Flower Child’s approach to courting millennials with a better-for-you menu caught the attention of—and investment from—Cheesecake Factory.

Consumer Trends

4 disruptors reshaping the industry

There’s no such thing as business as usual anymore for restaurants. So what forces can operators expect to disrupt the industry in 2017? Here's a sneak peek.

Technology

3 restaurant takeaways from SXSW

People from around the world gather for the annual peek at what the future holds in such areas as food and technology. Here’s what you missed from this year’s event.

Operations

7 big trends from the restaurant equipment show

While the industry may be slow to adopt ultra high-tech advances such as robots, there's innovation happening on the equipment front, with suppliers trying to make running a restaurant easier.

Food

Ingredient fatigue: Don't become one of many

At what point of saturation do these once on-trend ingredients begin to lose their marketing appeal?

Financing

The challenge of raw material costs

More than two in five operators have said that, of all factors, higher costs have most negatively impacted their operating profit in the past five years.

Operations

3 ways commercial kitchen equipment is getting smarter

Among the latest innovations at the NAFEM Show: tech-enhanced equipment that's designed to ease operations.

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