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RESTAURANT BUSINESS COLUMNISTS

RESTAURANT BUSINESS COLUMNISTS

Every day, RB brings you the best in analysis and opinion on a wide range of topics, including menu, finance, operations and technology. Check out our columns and blogs.

THE BOTTOM LINE

The award-winning financial news/analysis blog from RB Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze, which features a companion weekly newsletter by the same name. Jonathan deals with a variety of topics as they relate to the health and direction of the overall industry, with a special emphasis on franchising, mergers and acquisition, stock price performance, sales and profitability.

REALITY CHECK

The blog from award-winning journalist, RB Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo. Peter taps into his decades of experience covering the restaurant business at a variety of publications to discuss any number of issues related to the operations and general direction of restaurants.

STATE OF THE PLATE

The monthly column from Menu Maven Nancy Kruse is part of RB’s extensive coverage of menu news and trends. The founder of The Kruse Co. provides her unique take on what’s going on at restaurants big and small every month.

TASTE TRACKER

Every week, Senior Menu Editor Pat Cobe takes a look at the latest new menu news from major chains and menu trends. The column features extensive work from RB Art Director Nico Heins on a visual presentation.

TECH CHECK

Senior Technology Editor Joe Guszkowski looks at the week’s technology trends and news, examining the continued influx of new technologies into restaurants, including mobile ordering, delivery, artificial intelligence, virtual brands, ghost kitchens and robotics.

MARKETING BITES

The weekly column from Senior Editor Heather Lalley looks at the week’s marketing developments in the restaurant space. Marketing is constantly changing and evolving, and Heather looks at the different campaigns and overall trends.

SWEET & SOUR

What happens when you have two experienced and irreverent columnists on staff? You let them take on the most important topics of the day in the restaurant industry. Nancy Kruse and Peter Romeo discuss and debate almost anything impacting restaurants every month.

LOOKING BACK

LOOKING BACK

Leadership

Friendly’s parent hires Pamela Hunt as CFO

Hunt previously led accounting for On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina before joining BRIX Holdings.

Operations

Back Yard Burgers, after many hurdles, gets ready to grow again

The better-burger brand is about 75% smaller than it was 15 years ago. But it is looking to get back into the new-restaurant business.

Financing

Taco Bell gets some international momentum

The chain’s growth surged outside the U.S. last year as it works to become a more global brand like its sister companies.

Technology

Chipotle is testing a robot to make perfectly imperfect chips

Chippy, made by Miso Robotics, uses artificial intelligence to fry and season the fast casual’s tortilla chips so they’re craveable and don’t “lose the humanity behind our culinary experience,” the brand said.

Leadership

Freshii promotes CFO Daniel Haroun to CEO

The health-focused chain’s founder, Matthew Corrin, becomes executive chairman, while Victor Diab joins the Toronto-based brand as CFO.

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