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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

Technology

In Amazon, Grubhub might have the partner it’s been looking for

A new agreement will expose millions of Amazon Prime users to the delivery app, giving it a badly needed jolt.

Financing

Eggs Up Grill heads west

The breakfast-and-lunch chain has a 30-unit development deal in Texas, its biggest yet. It signals a shift in strategy for the fast-growing brand.

Financing

How Crumbl Cookies became one of the hottest restaurant chains in the country

The franchise brand has come out of nowhere to become one of the nation’s fastest-growing chains. And it has the unit economics to be a long-term success.

Workforce

Chipotle blasts report that says it passes over Black managerial applicants

The survey, backed by two unions, found that job seekers with “racially distinctive” Black names were less likely to receive a callback for GM openings and other leadership posts than those with white-sounding names.

Food

Italian fine-dining apostle Tony May dies at age 84

The creator of such influential New York restaurants as San Domenico and Palio introduced many Americans to upscale dishes from the regions of Italy.

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