Wingstop

Wingstop posts 7.9% comps for 2015

The development of 530 additional stores is underway, the franchisor says.

2016 additions to the restaurant vocabulary

New concerns and trends left restaurateurs with a temporary gap in their glossaries. Here's what was penciled in.

Hispanic customers who recently dined out with children younger than 18 years old rated their favorite restaurant chains in a Technomic survey. These are the brands currently winning Hispanic family-dining occasions.

The fast-casual wings chain launched voice ordering through Amazon’s Alexa platform

Given the mystifying developments that arose, you’d have thought restaurants were holding their own Agatha Christie Week.

After a rare decline in same-store sales a year ago, the company started advertising and quickly recovered.

The marketing chief will take a sabbatical to spend time with his family.

Since joining the chicken-wing specialist in 2003, Jim Flynn has presided over 28 consecutive quarters of sales growth, keeping the 16-year-old chain in expansion mode despite the troubled economy.

More than half of the restaurant industry’s $491 billion in sales come from the Top 500 chains. And these giants grew at a modestly stronger rate, both in terms of sales and store counts, than the industry overall. Restaurant Business focused on the leading 250 performers to identify trends for our first-ever special report delivering lessons from Technomic’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. This special package includes lessons for all operators from the largest chains by segment, menu category and more.

All signs point to voice recognition capabilities.

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