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National Restaurant Association Show

Saturday, May 17, 2025

The National Restaurant Association Show offers attendees ideas and inspiration year-round. From menus to workforce to technology to operations. Restaurant Business will be covering the Show’s resources to bring you the latest updates, trends and insights. Stay connected here.

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Menu-labeling rules—are you ready?

 By Dana Moran on May 28, 2015

The FDA’s new food-labeling rules go into effect Dec. 1. How prepared are you? Take our multiple-choice quiz to find out—and then study up, based on your results.

What to eat on the NRA Show floor

 By Kelsey Squire on May 22, 2016

Here, you'll find some tips for making a meal out of the samples served up during the show.

Food

Making sense of the wackiest food at the NRA Show

By Alaina Lancaster on May 24, 2016

One intrepid Restaurant Business editor eats her way through eccentric fare at the National Restaurant Association Show.

6 ways running restaurants has changed in 2016

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 25, 2016

At the NRA Show, executives shared several new realities of the business that are changing the way restaurants are run.

Beverage

How Chicago restaurant Swift & Sons stirs a perfect martini

By Kelly Killian on May 26, 2016

Watch the bartender at this high-end steakhouse deliver "eatertainment" with a tableside martini demo and a tale.

3 new phrases cool restaurateurs are using

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 31, 2016

Tote bags and food samples weren’t the only gems picked up on the floor of the National Restaurant Association Show. Here are a few new terms of the trade overheard at this year’s show from restaurant industry experts, insiders and observers.

Operations

To franchise, or not to franchise? 6 takeaways from industry vets

By Heather Lalley on May 22, 2017

Why franchising feels like being a mother with 300 children.

Workforce

6 labor solutions from restaurants’ big event

By Peter Romeo on May 22, 2017

The industry's annual convention served up some low-cost ideas for drawing and keeping good employees.

What to eat at the 2017 NRA Show

By Lisa White on May 22, 2017

From savory to sweet, there's a bevy of delectable bites to enjoy at this year's annual industry gathering.

Operations

5 big ideas from the NRA Show

By Peter Romeo on May 23, 2017

The restaurant industry's annual gathering yielded some unconventional approaches to common problems, from sky-high delivery fees to lowering labor costs.

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