Bonefish Grill

Operations

Outback parent bows to an activist investor

Bloomin' Brands agreed to add an industry veteran to its board under an agreement with Jana Partners, one of two shareholders that have been sympathetic to spinning off secondary brands.

Food

Wholly branzino

Not only was branzino a new species for Bonefish, this was the first time the chain featured a whole fish.

Music can help make or break a restaurant experience, so with help from Technomic, we found the top 10 casual-dining playlists.

Maple flavors are growing at lunch and dinner and in beverages.

The seafood menu category continues to slowly sink, having declined 0.8% in sales to $5.3 billion and 2.1% in unit counts to 1,377 in 2016 from the prior year.

When it comes to restaurant brands, the sales leaders are not always consumers’ favorites for a variety of reasons. Chains best at parlaying customer satisfaction into sales are hard to beat.

A look at the reports for public companies reveals some definite directional arrows for the industry as a whole.

Citing the services’ high costs, Olive Garden owner Darden and Newk’s Eatery are cautious on the industry trend.

Fourth quarter results were the best for parent Bloomin' Brands in five years.

All members will get something free when they visit a store.

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