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Year in review

Operations

Restaurant industry ripples poised to swell into waves

 By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 21, 2021

These developments made industry news in 2021 but expect to see them surge into bigger trends next year.

Leadership

Restaurant luminaries we lost in 2021

 By Peter Romeo on Dec. 21, 2021

The industry's ranks of innovators were thinned by the passing of these giants.

Emerging Brands

Investors are betting big on these emerging chains

By Heather Lalley on Dec. 21, 2021

Money was slow to start flowing at the outset of 2021, but interest in emerging concepts picked up in the back half of the year.

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.

Technology

What’s next in restaurant technology

By Joe Guszkowski on Dec. 21, 2021

Robots, ghost kitchens, consolidation and the metaverse are the four developments we’ll be keeping a close eye on in 2022.

Operations

2021’s vocabulary words for restaurant operators

By Heather Lalley on Dec. 21, 2021

Restaurant operators continued to learn new vocabulary words in 2021, as the ongoing pandemic created migraine-level headaches for them around staffing issues, supply chain woes and more. Some of ...

Leadership

5 restaurant leaders to pay attention to in 2022

By Joe Guszkowski on Dec. 21, 2021

A few of these executives jumped on our radar after making a splash in 2021, while others are laying the groundwork for intriguing innovations in the years ahead.

Food

What the Industry’s soothsayers are predicting in 2022

By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 21, 2021

Restaurant and hotel brands, professional trendologists, industry groups and food companies are all having a say in what the next year will bring. We culled through the reports to find the common threads.

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.

Leadership

Top newsmakers of 2015

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 21, 2015

They made the boldest headlines in what was indisputably an up-and-down year. The ups were rocket shots to nosebleed heights, and the downs were just as extreme—catastrophic, yet wellsprings of outrage and surprise. Here are six individuals who contributed to the rollercoaster ride.

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