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Restaurant Business

Consumer Trends

The 10 most unique LTOs launched this year

Limited-time offers that stand out from the crowd can appeal to consumers.

Marketing

3 exec shifts reshaping chain marketing departments

Bojangles’, Church’s Chicken and Smoothie King are shaking up their marketing departments.

Financing

Technomic Top 500 preview: Sales at country's biggest chains improved in 2018

By Jonathan Maze on Feb. 25, 2019

The largest restaurant concepts proved resilient last year, while Chick-fil-A leapfrogged Burger King and Wendy's to become the fifth-largest chain and Panera Bread joined the top 10.

Special Reports

Timeline: How today’s restaurant industry came to be

By Peter Romeo and Myra Engers Weinberg on Feb. 21, 2019

Here are some key milestones from the last 100 years.

Financing

Papa John’s has a franchisee problem

By Jonathan Maze on Feb. 20, 2019

An analyst suggests operators are struggling, which is a problem given heavy pizza price competition, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

Special Reports

100 years of supporting restaurants

By Dawn Sweeney, President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association on Feb. 19, 2019

As we reflect on the industry’s past, the National Restaurant Association is laying the groundwork for a bright future.

Special Reports

Confessions of a time traveler

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 19, 2019

Here's what Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo learned trekking through 100 years of the restaurant industry.

Special Reports

Influential restaurant families

By Sara Rush Wirth on Feb. 19, 2019

These families have been part of the restaurant business for generations.

Special Reports

How the National Restaurant Association came to be

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 19, 2019

A look back at Day One of the Association and its constituency.

Special Reports

How We Got Here: 1970s

By Peter Romeo on Feb. 19, 2019

The decade kicked off with an industrywide promotional campaign that would live on for years and whose tagline would ultimately be “borrowed” by the city of Chicago for its tourism promotion efforts: “We’re Glad You’re Here.”