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Year in Review 2024

Emerging Brands

Exciting new independent restaurants coming in 2025

 By Lisa Jennings on Jan. 02, 2025

It's not clear what sort of macroeconomic climate the new year will bring, but big-name restaurateurs are busy with new projects in the works.

Emerging Brands

Emerging concepts to watch in 2025

 By Lisa Jennings on Jan. 02, 2025

It's too soon to say what the next hot thing will be next year, but these growing brands are worth keeping an eye on.

Financing

As restaurants head into 2025, more economic uncertainty abounds

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 02, 2025

The operating environment and the economy should provide some tailwinds while the M&A market returns to normal. But tariffs and deportations could create some real headaches.

Operations

The best of Restaurant Business 2024

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 19, 2024

This year, the editors at RB covered a range of topics, from bankruptcy filings to climate change to labor issues as well as finance, technology and a whole lot of menu news.

Financing

The 10 biggest stories of 2024

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 18, 2024

In a recessionary year for restaurants, stories of bankruptcies and sales challenges dominated the headlines. But some brands did pretty well.

Financing

Why consumers turned away from fast-food restaurants in 2024

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 18, 2024

A Deeper Dive: This week’s episode features some of the best content from the year, focusing on discussions about traffic challenges that dominated the news for much of the year.

Marketing

The 2024 restaurant vocabulary words that gave us the ick

By Heather Lalley on Dec. 18, 2024

From “swicy” to “servant leader,” here’s some of the industry jargon we hope not to see in 2025.

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.

Consumer Trends

6 menu trends that rocked restaurants in 2024

By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 18, 2024

We heard a lot about “swicy” and cheese pulls, but what else was trending both inside and outside restaurants’ walls?

Financing

A weak year for restaurant acquisitions, except for Blackstone

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 18, 2024

The private-equity group, with the year’s two biggest deals for Jersey Mike’s and Tropical Smoothie, saved what was mostly a year full of bargain-basement deals and bankruptcy sales.

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