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This week’s 5 head-spinning restaurant moments: Quiet progress

 By Peter Romeo on Aug. 03, 2018

Starbucks has vowed to cut unit-level administrative tasks in half, while Del Frisco’s is reducing its dependence on beef. And those aren’t the only ways restaurant operators are subtly improving their lot.

Financing

JAB: The new restaurant powerhouse

 By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 20, 2018

Here's a look at JAB's acquisitions and restaurant concepts.

Workforce

10 states open investigation into restaurants’ ‘no poaching’ pacts

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 10, 2018

Eight quick-service chains have been asked to provide information on their use of no-hiring agreements.

Top 500 Chains

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Jun. 14, 2018
Beverage

6 iced tea and lemonade trends hitting menus

By Patricia Cobe on Jun. 06, 2018

What icy beverage flavors and styles will be cooling off customers this summer?

Consumer Trends

Chefs continue to say cheese

Feb. 05, 2013

Each year, the National Restaurant Association surveys over 1,800 chefs who are members of the American Culinary Federation to get their top trend predictions. The forecast looks bright for cheese, as reported in the NRA’s “What’s Hot 2013 Chef Survey.”

Panera picks a franchisee for Canadian development

By Restaurant Business Staff on Sep. 15, 2016

A New Brunswick-based operator of KFCs and Pizza Huts plans to develop the bakery-cafes across Canada.

Leadership

Remembering the year’s lost restaurant luminaries

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 28, 2017

Here are some of the industry standouts who died during the past year, and the legacies they left.

5 questions not to ask at the NRA Show

By Peter Romeo on May 01, 2014

The National Restaurant Association’s May convention is an ideal place to find answers to everyday dilemmas. Here's how to avoid being hissed off the trade-show floor.

Leadership

Ed Doherty makes his own luck

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 14, 2016

Ed Doherty insists his success as a restaurant franchisee is a tale of phenomenal luck, starting with the purchase of his first restaurants in 1985.

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