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Restaurant menu prices keep growing, even as grocery inflation has stopped

Prices for food away from home have increased at a rate faster than prices for food at home for more than a year. That trend continued last month.

Emerging Brands

How Mr. Pickle's is playing the value game with sandwich sizes

The California-born chain known for Dutch Crunch rolls is borrowing a page from Goldilocks and rolling out a mid-sized sandwich that gives guests a more-profitable reason to visit.

Fast food has an affordability problem and Tony Christofellis, who co-founded the Salad and Go chain, believes he knows how to fix it.

The company said demand for its technology took a hit after Wendy’s “surge pricing” backlash earlier this year. It is shifting its focus to pricing intelligence.

Tech Check: Consumers are too on edge right now for restaurants to mess with pricing. It’s a shame, because the industry could use the boost.

For the second quarter, the Mediterranean chain reported industry-busting traffic growth of 9.5%. Why? It's perceived as a good value.

Reality Check: Supermarkets are suspected of exploiting tech to boost prices. You know, like the capabilities that are as common as napkins in the restaurant business.

New federal data shows restaurant prices running 4.1% higher than a year ago, compared with supermarket's 1.1%.

CEO Bob Wright is not a fan of more aggressive discounting but he wants to stop guests from trading down to their own refrigerators.

Meanwhile, its aggressive expansion plan remains in place, with 130 development projects underway.

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