Year in review

Operations

What we're putting money on for 2024

In this season of attempting to peek around the corner to see what's ahead, here are predictions from the editors of Restaurant Business.

Financing

The best of Restaurant Business 2023

Here are the year’s best stories from RB editors, featuring everything from key menu trends to major investigations, inside stories of major regulatory efforts and fascinating new technology.

Reality Check: Watch out for the extremely naughty in M&A activity. In fact, make a list and check it at least twice.

Here are the dark clouds that could temper restaurants’ enthusiasm for a new year. Then again, the threats could drive them to harder partying.

RB’s editors take turns forecasting what’s in store for the restaurant industry in the coming year.

From the Editor: Here are the top stories, blogs and podcast episodes from a complicated year in the restaurant industry.

The year in acquisitions: Strategic deals dominated a weak year for industry mergers and acquisitions. Investment firms remained on the sidelines.

The year’s biggest stories: Soaring costs, Starbucks’ big year, the Fast Act and restaurants’ Russian exodus marked a year full of monumental shifts and challenges.

Chicken is also a theme, and there’s something here for vegans and robot lovers.

See who and what won big in 2022, and the aspects of the restaurant industry that had a terrible, no good, very bad year.

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