Year in review

Marketing

Restaurant trends we're rooting against in 2023

The metaverse, pumpkin spice and product shortages are a few of the items on our naughty list this year.

Leadership

Restaurant luminaries we lost in 2022

The notable passings include the deaths of chain founders, a salacious critic and the co-founder of Ronald McDonald Houses.

The transitional year turned several previously obscure segments into big gainers.

Robots, ghost kitchens and the metaverse made headlines in a turbulent year for tech companies.

Coal is too good for these restaurant industry scoundrels. Roadkill, maybe?

Tech suppliers were on the receiving end of more than 100 funding rounds or acquisitions in 2021. Here’s a look at the highlights.

A Deeper Dive: Restaurant Business editors discuss the year’s biggest stories and make predictions for 2022.

From the Editor: RB journalists covered every facet of an up-and-down year in the restaurant industry. Here is a look at some of our best journalism of 2021.

Insurers, landlords, the SBA, mask deniers, Mother Nature and the guy who wrote "Fancylike" are all those that should receive coal this year.

Here are the stories that capture the most clicks from readers this year.

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