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By Jonathan Maze on Sep. 03, 2024

The Bottom Line: A host of investment companies have been snapping up restaurant companies at bargain prices. Getting them back into growth mode is the hard part.

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Quick-service chains are turbocharging menu innovation to drive traffic. It’s working

By Patricia Cobe on Aug. 30, 2024

Taco Bell, Wendy’s and Blaze Pizza are pushing new products out of the pipeline at a fast and frequent clip to excite younger guests and bring more of them through the doors.

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Financing

Fast-casual burger chains run into sales problems

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 29, 2024

The Bottom Line: Habit’s sales are falling and the chain just rebranded. Shake Shack is closing locations. BurgerFi is being sold on the discount rack. Here's what to make of it all.

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Technology

Dynamic pricing is a case of right place, wrong time

By Joe Guszkowski on Aug. 27, 2024

Tech Check: Consumers are too on edge right now for restaurants to mess with pricing. It’s a shame, because the industry could use the boost.

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Emerging Brands

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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Financing

Pandemic aftershocks keep hitting restaurants

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 27, 2024

The Bottom Line: Sales challenges and bankruptcy filings are the latest seismic repercussions for restaurant chains.

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Winners and losers from a weird earnings season

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 26, 2024

The Bottom Line: Some restaurant chains did extremely well, others less so. And even those that seemingly did well did not do well, at least if you ask Wall Street.

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Emerging Brands

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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Financing

Guillermo Perales jumps into a buyer's market

By Jonathan Maze on Aug. 22, 2024

The franchisee of Burger King, Arby’s and other chains just acquired Freebirds World Burrito and is already working to grow the chain. And he’s got the inside track on Uncle Julio’s.

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