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Reality Check

Peter Romeo

The blog from award-winning journalist, RB Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo. Peter taps into his decades of experience covering the restaurant business at a variety of publications to discuss any number of issues related to the operations and general direction of restaurants.

Financing

Casual dining silences its doubters with head-turning July results

 By Peter Romeo on Aug. 03, 2021

The recent flurry of earnings reports shows a sector enjoying a clear boom. The question is, will it last?

Financing

Get ready for another sort of cost pressure

 By Peter Romeo on Jul. 21, 2021

A new type of environmental bill aims to push recycling costs back on packaging users and suppliers. A law has already been passed in Maine, and 10 other states are expected to consider similar measures.

Financing

Uncle Sam cranks up another program that could help restaurants

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 19, 2021

The federal government distributed $15 billion in aid last month under a new family aid program. The question is, how much might flow to restaurants.

Financing

Quick: Which restaurant segment is currently soaring?

By Peter Romeo on Jul. 01, 2021

Not even Jeopardy’s best might have nailed the surprising answer.

Consumer Trends

Can casual chains hold onto their off-premise gains?

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 28, 2021

Darden Restaurants, the segment's biggest player, doesn’t have the answer, but CEO Gene Lee admits his first assessment was off-target.

Marketing

Why restaurants should care about the changes afoot for college football

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 14, 2021

A proposed change in the playoff process would afford restaurants considerably more promotional opportunities this winter.

Workforce

Updated OSHA guidelines pose new duties for restaurant employers

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 10, 2021

The revised recommendations suggest one set of protocols for the vaccinated and another for the unvaccinated, suggesting employers will somehow have to keep track.

Marketing

4 restaurant marketing moves that still merit a ‘Huh?’

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 09, 2021

This week's curveball from Taco John's is the latest off-beat attention-grabber to prompt some head shaking.

Leadership

3 buzz terms that belong in any savvy restaurateur's vocabulary

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 08, 2021

'Pandemic,' 'COVID-19' and 'lockdown' are so 2020. Here are the buzz phrases currently in play.

Leadership

Why the restaurant industry needs its own vaccine passport

By Peter Romeo on May 14, 2021

The CDC has cleared the way for a quicker return to normal for the business. What's missing is a way of verifying which customers are vaccinated. Why shouldn't restaurants remedy that lack themselves?

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