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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Technology

E-wallets’ early adopters

By Amanda Kooser on Nov. 01, 2013

The burgeoning world of mobile has been on a slow collision course with the restaurant industry. But it may be time to speed things up.

5 questions not to ask at the NRA Show

By Peter Romeo on May 01, 2014

The National Restaurant Association’s May convention is an ideal place to find answers to everyday dilemmas. Here's how to avoid being hissed off the trade-show floor.

Obamacare Watch: The doctor is in

By Kelly Killian on May 01, 2014

The National Restaurant Association is once again holding free one-on-one consultations during the NRA Show this month in Chicago.

‘Star Trek’ or just the next NRA Show?

By Peter Romeo on May 18, 2014

Telling fact from science fiction isn’t always easy at this year’s tech-rich National Restaurant Association convention. See if you can determine which advancements in restaurant technology are real, and which you can still only find on the Enterprise.

Post-NRA Show attitude adjustments

By Peter Romeo on May 20, 2014

If colleagues attended the NRA Show and you didn’t, grant them some deep-thought time. They’re likely grappling with new necessities that mandate changes in their attitudes and ways of doing business. You may want to sit at their feet and get a download, Grasshopper.

Top 10 restaurant trends from this year’s NRA Show

By Sara Rush Wirth on May 21, 2014

Find out which 10 restaurant trends we kept encountering in our journey through the National Restaurant Association’s annual convention in Chicago.

Eating my way through NRA 2014

By Patricia Cobe on May 21, 2014

Senior Editor Pat Cobe shares 10 business-building food and beverage trends she spotted at the show.

Restaurant trends from across the pond

By Patricia Cobe on May 27, 2014

The British restaurant scene is booming, according to Peter Backman, an annual visitor to the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago. Backman sat down with Senior Editor Pat Cobe to share some other insights into what's trending in the U.K. Did someone say "fast casual"?

Labor activists interrupt an NRA Show presentation

By Dawn Reiss on May 18, 2015

Proponents of raising restaurant server’s wages screamed down keynote speaker Arianna Huffington.

Pizza entrepreneur pushes for giveaway protection

By Bianca N. Herron on May 19, 2015

The proprietor of Michigan-based Passport Pizza wants to see more restaurant food donated, and believes liability protection is the way to make it happen.

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