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Year in review

Financing

Private equity, on the sidelines in 2021, could make its return in 2022

 By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 21, 2021

The investment firms largely ceded the market to strategic buyers last year. But some believe they could make their return as they grow more confident in projections.

Operations

Hey Santa, here's what restaurants really want

 By Peter Romeo on Dec. 21, 2021

Reality Check: The best thing you could give restaurateurs this year is a break from the near past.

Operations

The restaurant industry’s biggest winners in 2021

By Joe Guszkowski on Dec. 21, 2021

See why steak chains, college athletes and labor unions had a good year.

Food

Top menu trends of 2021

By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 21, 2021

As America emerged from pandemic restrictions, some 2020 food and drink trends strengthened while new ones gained ground.

Financing

IPOs or Fat Brands: The year in restaurant mergers and acquisitions

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 21, 2021

The industry continued to consolidate in 2021, while restaurants returned to the public markets with surprising eagerness.

Operations

In 2021, a surprise recovery is met with a more surprising labor shortage

By Jonathan Maze on Dec. 21, 2021

The year’s biggest story was an unprecedented lack of workers that left operators closing services, reducing hours and dramatically increasing pay.

Notable restaurant openings of 2015

By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 22, 2015

A number of high-profile chefs opened new outposts during 2015 to answer the question, What’s next? Here’s a look at those and other 2015 restaurant openings worth noting.

Leadership

The real-estate mogul vs. the restaurateur: Donald Trump edition

By Kelsey Nash on Dec. 25, 2015

A look at the tycoon’s notable rows with industry players this year.

The year’s top ouches for restaurateurs

By Alaina Lancaster on Dec. 28, 2015

While restaurateurs tack Spongebob Band-Aids to their wounds, lets take a second to reflect on the biggest legislative and regulatory blows of the year.

Marketing

15 vocab additions from 2015

By Sara Rush Wirth and Peter Romeo on Dec. 31, 2015

Every year, the dictionary has to update its list of entries. As an industry, we too have to revamp our vernacular to include terms and phrases flying out of the mouths of restaurateurs—and customers. Here’s a list of the buzzy phrases that caught fire among industry folks this year.

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