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Financing

US Foods, Performance Food Group agree to share data, taking first step in potential mega-merger

 By Heather Lalley on Sep. 17, 2025

If successful, the deal would create the country’s largest broadline distributor, providing food to restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, healthcare facilities and schools.

Operations

Preparing for a future in which restaurants have a role in recycling

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 25, 2025

Working Lunch: This week's political podcast looks at the evolving issue of Extended Producer Responsibility laws on recycling across the country. Consultants Michael Washburn and Chloe Kapanen offer insights for compliance.

Marketing

Sweetgreen is bringing in the baby goats

By Lisa Jennings on Aug. 19, 2025

The fast-casual chain is spotlighting farmers, like the maker of its goat cheese. Baby goats will be available for holding (and chakra reset) at a unit in Los Angeles.

Operations

Cava's first Impact Report reveals strategies behind core values

By Lisa Jennings on Aug. 01, 2025

Corporate transparency reports on managing people, food and the planet are facing new pressures. For Cava, this first report is designed to codify values embedded in the brand's DNA.

Operations

The Trump Administration blames high egg prices on California's animal welfare standards

By Lisa Jennings on Jul. 10, 2025

The U.S. government sued the state of California on Wednesday, saying regulations designed to prevent animal cruelty create "unnecessary red tape" that drives up prices.

Financing

NYC restaurants brace for the impact of congestion pricing

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 03, 2025

The city is the first in the nation to charge vehicles, including distribution trucks, every time they pass through a high-traffic zone. Operators fear a climb in food costs and an erosion of guest traffic.

Workforce

Sysco employees say they're set to strike in Houston—and possibly elsewhere

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 20, 2024

The walkout would affect a host of restaurants in the market, including local units of The Cheesecake Factory, Jersey Mike's, Jimmy John's, Pappas Restaurants and the Buc-ee's c-store chain, according to the local Teamsters chapter planning the strike.

Workforce

6 anvils likely to dangle over restaurateurs' heads in 2025

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 18, 2024

Everyone has a conviction about what’s ahead for the industry in the New Year. But it’s the uncertainties—the what-ifs—that should be top of mind.

Operations

Sweetgreen pledges to keep endangered Los Angeles farmers markets running

By Lisa Jennings on Dec. 05, 2024

Some farmers markets in underserved neighborhoods have seen sales plummet and were in danger of closure. But the fast-casual chain said it will keep operations going another year.

Food

Cucumbers in 26 states are feared to be contaminated with salmonella

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 02, 2024

The whole cukes were grown in Mexico and imported into the United States by a company called SunFed. Authorities are investigating whether other importers may have also carried the product.

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