Continue to Site >>>

Financing

How your restaurant sales and profits compare to competitors' and what you can do to improve financial performance

Financing

Papa Johns signs a big deal in China

 By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 07, 2022

The pizza delivery chain has a deal with FountainVest Partners to develop 1,350 locations in the country by 2040.

Financing

The Lost Cajun is ready to refill its pipeline

 By Joe Guszkowski on Jan. 07, 2022

The casual-dining chain has emerged from bankruptcy with plans to get back to its fast-growing ways.

Financing

Why Papa Johns thinks it will get China right this time

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 07, 2022

The pizza delivery chain has been in the country for years. But executives think now is the right time to make a big push in the fast-growing market.

Financing

New go-round ignites a flicker of hope for more federal restaurant aid

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 06, 2022

A proposal is coming together for re-upping the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, and the attention alone is kindling optimism.

Financing

Restaurant chain bankruptcies plunged last year

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 06, 2022

The Bottom Line: After a major surge in industry filings during the pandemic, they all but stopped last April. Here's why.

Financing

Cinnabon and Auntie Anne’s step out of the mall together

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 06, 2022

Parent company Focus Brands is using cobranding as it looks for different types of locations for its mall-focused concepts.

Financing

How ghost kitchens and virtual brands could change the restaurant industry

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 05, 2022

A Deeper Dive: Former Red Robin CEO Denny Marie Post discusses how these mega trends could change restaurants for years to come.

Financing

Subway tries a new franchising strategy: bigger operators

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 05, 2022

The Bottom Line: The sandwich giant grew into the most prolific franchise in the world with small-scale operators. Now it wants franchisees with more locations.

Financing

Carrols Restaurant Group, citing 'significant and unforeseen challenges,' hands out bonuses

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 05, 2022

The big Burger King franchisee cited labor costs, supply chain challenges and its upcoming CEO’s retirement in giving out retention awards to some top executives.

Financing

The FTC fines Biglari Holdings $1.4M over ‘grossly negligent’ Cracker Barrel stock purchase

By Jonathan Maze on Jan. 04, 2022

It was the investor’s second such fine for violating antitrust laws related to the reporting of stock purchases by large existing shareholders.

  • Page 156