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New brands and soon-to-open concepts worth watching

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 11, 2024

The two operations have collaborated on a co-branded venture called Buttermilk Baby, the first of 10 that are planned for Texas.

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Wings and Rings to launch a fast-casual chicken brand

By Joe Guszkowski on Sep. 10, 2024

Noble Chicken will debut next year in Cincinnati, offering a new option for franchisees of the sports-bar chain.

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How Mr. Pickle's is playing the value game with sandwich sizes

By Lisa Jennings on Sep. 06, 2024

The California-born chain known for Dutch Crunch rolls is borrowing a page from Goldilocks and rolling out a mid-sized sandwich that gives guests a more-profitable reason to visit.

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How Angie's Food Concepts aims to become the Walmart of restaurants

By Lisa Jennings on Aug. 27, 2024

Fast food has an affordability problem and Tony Christofellis, who co-founded the Salad and Go chain, believes he knows how to fix it.

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Everytable resets its table

By Lisa Jennings on Aug. 23, 2024

Once hailed as a concept that cracked the code on offering healthy fast food at affordable prices, the Los Angeles-based chain has retrenched. What happened?

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Koo Koo Roo plans relaunch to tap lingering brand loyalty

By Lisa Jennings on Aug. 22, 2024

The new owner of the defunct 36-year-old "home-meal replacement" chain says they loved it once, they'll love it again.

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Home Run Dugout to expand with $22.5M investment

By Lisa Jennings on Aug. 19, 2024

The baseball-themed eatertainment concept's Series A funding round was led by Lagniappe Capital Partners, which is also a minority investor in Puttshack.

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