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

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Some McDonald's customers are doubling up on the discounts

 By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 12, 2024

The Bottom Line: In some markets, customers can get the fast-food chain's $5 value meal for $4. The situation illustrates a key rule in the restaurant business: Customers are savvy and will find loopholes.

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Another breastaurant chain suffers a severe downturn

 By Peter Romeo on Jul. 11, 2024

Bombshells, the concept run by strip-club operator RCI Hospitality, posted a 16.2% drop in same-store sales.

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A founding partner of KFC Japan exits the business after 54 years

By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 11, 2024

The private-equity group Carlyle has taken the Japanese market for the fast-food chicken chain private in an $835 million deal. Mitsubishi Corp., which helped establish the brand there in 1970, is exiting.

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Consumers may be cutting back, but not on snacks

By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 11, 2024

Sales at MTY Food Group concepts Wetzel’s and Cold Stone are outperforming other chains. But the economic environment is holding back its other brands.

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The restaurant M&A market was tough, and then came the bankruptcies

By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 10, 2024

The market for restaurant mergers and acquisitions has been slow for more than two years. But that market is bifurcated, as good deals get done and opportunistic buyers snap up low-priced chains.

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Why platform companies are buying so many small chains

By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 10, 2024

A Deeper Dive: Kelly Roddy, CEO of Saladworks owner Woworks, joins the podcast to talk about mergers and acquisitions and the advantages of platform companies.

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The broken promise of fast-casual pizza

By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 09, 2024

The Bottom Line: The potential bankruptcy filing of MOD Pizza further illustrates the sector’s challenges, which have worsened coming out of the pandemic.

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Why the potential MOD Pizza bankruptcy is a big problem

By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 03, 2024

The Bottom Line: The fast-casual pizza chain's apparent downfall may color the industry's condition more than Red Lobster. But MOD was a victim of its own decisions.

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Can technology fix restaurants' workforce issues?

By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 03, 2024

A Deeper Dive: The podcast features National Restaurant Association CEO Michelle Korsmo, and a discussion with RB Senior Tech Editor Joe Guszkowski on AI in the drive-thru.

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MOD Pizza is reportedly considering a bankruptcy filing

By Jonathan Maze on Jul. 03, 2024

The fast-casual pizza chain, for years one of the country’s fastest-growing concepts, said it is “exploring all options” to improve its capital structure.

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