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

Red Robin warns of a struggle to stay in business

By Peter Romeo on Jun. 01, 2020

The casual chain's revised credit facility requires $25 million to be raised from equity, and management has aired doubts about doing it in time.

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Bargain hunters take a risk on some restaurants

By Jonathan Maze on Jun. 01, 2020

Several concepts have found buyers, albeit at low prices, as investors take bets on an industry comeback, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

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Why Subway franchisees hate the $5 Footlong

By Jonathan Maze on May 29, 2020

While the offer worked when it was first proposed, a decade’s worth of food and labor costs make it difficult, if not impossible, to make a profit, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

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The pandemic has hastened Ruby Tuesday’s decline

By Jonathan Maze on May 29, 2020

The casual dining chain, which has been shrinking for years, has closed at least 150 locations, more than a third of the system, and many will not reopen.

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Robert Earl group agrees to buy 45 restaurants from Bravo and Brio's parent in $29M deal

By Peter Romeo on May 28, 2020

The operator of Planet Hollywood and Buca di Beppo is paying just $50,000 in cash for FoodFirst Global Restaurants.

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For foreign restaurant chains, the U.S. remains a brutal market

By Jonathan Maze on May 28, 2020

Le Pain Quotidien and Vapiano were both struggling here before the pandemic, proving again the difficulty foreign chains have in establishing a beachhead, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

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