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Kevin Hochman: The 2025 Restaurant Leader of the Year

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 17, 2025

Check out our video highlighting the traits that made the CEO of Chili's owner Brinker International the most talked-about executive in the restaurant business.

Financing

From wobbly tables to record sales: How listening to managers fueled Chili’s comeback

 By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 11, 2025

The Bottom Line: Chili’s CEO Kevin Hochman transformed an old bar-and-grill chain by engaging with restaurant managers and addressing operational challenges.

Leadership

Still looking for a permanent CEO, Subway makes some executive changes

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 11, 2025

Doug Fry stepped down as head of the sandwich chain’s North American operations while Greg Lyons was named chief marketing officer.

Leadership

Jack in the Box makes Lance Tucker its permanent CEO

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 31, 2025

The fast-food chain operator named its former CFO to the top job weeks after he was named interim chief executive following the departure of Darin Harris.

Leadership

David Gibbs to retire as CEO of Taco Bell owner Yum Brands

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 31, 2025

The longtime executive of the fast-food restaurant chain owner will retire in the first quarter of 2026. The company will start a search process for his successor.

Financing

Domino's makes a bunch of management changes

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 11, 2025

The pizza chain named Joseph Jordan chief operating officer, Weiking Ng EVP international and Ryan Mulally general counsel.

Leadership

Joe Guith named CEO of Hardee's and Carl's Jr. owner CKE Restaurants

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 06, 2025

The former Church’s Texas Chicken chief executive will take over leadership of the struggling, Roark Capital-owned burger chains.

Leadership

Starbucks replaces another top executive

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 04, 2025

The coffee shop chain named Nordstrom executive Cathy Smith CFO as Rachel Ruggeri leaves the company amid a slow management overhaul.

Financing

Understanding KFC's head-scratching move to Texas

By Jonathan Maze on Feb. 19, 2025

The Bottom Line: Brands have been moving corporate headquarters for years for a variety of reasons. But taking a struggling chicken chain out of the market it’s associated with could backfire.

Leadership

Tropical Smoothie Café makes a trio of executive appointments

By Jonathan Maze on Feb. 12, 2025

The smoothie chain named Jonathan Biggs its new chief operating officer, Chris Sasser chief financial officer and Karen Wickliffe general counsel.

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