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Technology

It's time to send 'ghost kitchen' to the graveyard

 By Joe Guszkowski on Oct. 02, 2023

Tech Check: The catch-all term for delivery restaurants is no longer accurate. Let’s lay it to rest and come up with a new label.

Financing

Higher-end consumers may be slowing their spending

 By Jonathan Maze on Oct. 02, 2023

The Bottom Line: There is some evidence that higher-income consumers may be cutting back. Or maybe there was just some pent-up demand.

Technology

Wonder bets meal kits aren't dead yet

By Joe Guszkowski on Sep. 29, 2023

Tech Check: By acquiring the struggling Blue Apron, the restaurant delivery concept believes it can touch more dining occasions. But will it work?

Operations

Here's who is building muscle in the healthy fast-casual sector

By Lisa Jennings on Sep. 28, 2023

Sweetgreen, Cava and Salad and Go are part of a new generation of chains looking for the Holy Grail of the restaurant industry: Building a national chain of healthy fast-food restaurants. This is how they're doing it.

Financing

Demand for chicken takes Huey Magoo's to new heights

By Jonathan Maze on Sep. 28, 2023

Longtime chicken executive Andy Howard saw something in the tiny Florida chain more than five years ago. It is now one of the fastest growing concepts in the country.

Financing

Stake your claim to the low-price market at your own risk

By Jonathan Maze on Sep. 28, 2023

The Bottom Line: Subway and Burger King have staked their claims as value leaders in their respective segments. Recent events have highlighted the difficulties of that position.

Workforce

How the deal on Calif.'s fast-food wages came about

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 27, 2023

Squeezed between two bad possibilities, the industry negotiated what proponents say is an acceptable middle-ground compromise.

Financing

The Fed is almost done raising interest rates. Maybe

By Jonathan Maze on Sep. 26, 2023

The Bottom Line: Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari suggested a 60% chance of a soft landing with one more rate hike. But "meaningfully higher" rates are also possible.

Financing

Executives' franchisee profitability comments are pointless until they report the data

By Jonathan Maze on Sep. 25, 2023

The Bottom Line: McDonald’s and its franchisees differ on the profitability of restaurants, but we can’t judge for ourselves because the company doesn’t release the data, like most franchise businesses.

Emerging Brands

The race is on for a piece of the pickleball pie

By Lisa Jennings on Sep. 22, 2023

New concepts seem to pop up daily. Here's a look at how the pickleball eatertainment landscape is taking shape.

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