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Shipley Do-Nuts pivots to the savory side with best-selling breakfast kolaches

 By Patricia Cobe on Mar. 12, 2025

Behind the Menu: The Houston-based donut chain launched the egg-and-cheese-filled pastries as a limited-time offer and they broke sales records, landing them on the permanent menu.

Technology

Wonder acquires food media company Tastemade

 By Joe Guszkowski on Mar. 12, 2025

The deal gives the food hall-delivery company a media network that will put its restaurant brands in front of millions of viewers.

Financing

Why restaurants are still having challenges this year

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 12, 2025

A Deeper Dive: Rich Shank, senior principal with Technomic, joins the Restaurant Business podcast to talk about the state of the industry so far in 2025.

Financing

McDonald's bows to current restaurant reality

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 12, 2025

The Bottom Line: The fast-food chain, which competes in multiple different sectors, is taking on a fast-food world full of concepts that offer far more targeted menus.

Food

Meet the new Noodles & Company menu

By Lisa Jennings on Mar. 12, 2025

The fast-casual chain has rolled out its culinary transformation along with a marketing campaign proclaiming, "We know noodles." What did guests want? More mac and cheese.

Financing

First Watch fires up a new marketing plan

By Joe Guszkowski on Mar. 11, 2025

The data-driven strategy will allow the breakfast-and-lunch chain to target ads to individual customers. It is part of the chain’s plan to boost traffic this year.

Marketing

Pizza Hut introduces Pizza Charcuterie in celebration of Pi Day

By Patricia Cobe on Mar. 11, 2025

Instead of the usual $3.14 specials, The Plano, Texas-based pizza chain asks fans to strut their creativity with Instagrammable pie-wings-and-dips boards.

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.

Operations

McDonald's is going after 'specialist' competitors

By Jonathan Maze on Mar. 11, 2025

The fast-food giant is creating a new Restaurant Experience Team to move faster to support general managers. But it also creates teams around beef, chicken and beverages to compete with more specialized restaurant chains.

Marketing

3 restaurant trends making waves this month

By Patricia Cobe on Mar. 11, 2025

Yelp revealed the foods, drinks and operations generating search activity year over year. A now-pricy refrigerator staple is among the top searches.

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