Restaurant Business

Restaurant Business is tracking the unprecedented impacts of COVID-19 on the restaurant industry. Please check back often for round-the-clock updates.

Los Angeles restaurant workers to get $800 in city aid

The stipend is intended to help employees weather the ongoing shutdown in in-person dining.

Beverage

What consumers can expect to drink in 2021

The top beverage trends that will evolve and emerge in the year ahead.

Marketing

RB's 2020 Restaurant Holiday Gift Guide

Consumers apparently want to look and smell like their favorite restaurants, and chains are here to give it to them.

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Grubhub reveals top food orders of 2020

Los Angeles restaurant workers to get $800 in city aid

Joe Biden gets an earful about independent restaurants’ dire state

Cracker Barrel adds new programs for the sake of flexibility

Grubhub's new chief revenue officer on the outlook for third-party delivery

States start closing dining rooms again

With coronavirus spiking throughout the country, several states have started closing dine-in service again.

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Recovery and Rebuild: Getting your restaurant back on track

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Financing

Outback Steakhouse owner Bloomin’ hedges its bets

The company is aggressively developing brands around takeout, but it also insists that casual dining is not dead.

Financing

A renewed virus surge and government shutdowns slow restaurants’ recovery

Data from tracking services and US Foods suggest a November slowdown, but takeout remains strong as operators have adapted, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

Operations

California moves toward widespread suspension of outdoor dining

The rollback of services to takeout and delivery could begin in broad swaths of the state within a day or two, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Food

How First Watch’s Shane Schiably is evolving and energizing the menu for 2021

Schiably joined the brunch chain to push the culinary envelope, and he's continued to do so during this challenging year.

Technology

Jamba launches automated smoothie station with robotics company Blendid

The co-branded kiosk opened Wednesday inside a California Walmart.

Financing

Why Tim Hortons has struggled under RBI

CEO Jose Cil said the company marketed the brand with the wrong mindset and “lost touch with consistency and quality,” says RB’s The Bottom Line.

Technology

Rick Bayless debuts a members-only YouTube channel

The effort, which features weekly cooking demos and live cook-alongs, is designed to help pay the salaries of some of the chef-restaurateur's employees during the pandemic.

Financing

Why restaurants are more resistant to pandemic shutdowns this time around

This week’s episode of the RB podcast “A Deeper Dive” features a discussion between Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze and Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo on the third wave of COVID-19.

Leadership