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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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Ice machines and dispensers

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 13, 2007

You can’t run a restaurant without ice—and lots of it.

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Money Mangement: Control your cash

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Sep. 01, 2010

Running a cash flow positive restaurant is challenging even in the best of times.

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Brown’s cracks the catering code

By Restaurant Business Staff on Aug. 01, 2011

To say that Brown’s Chicken, a fast-casual chain with 29 locations in the Chicago area, was hit hard by the recession would be an understatement: Owing more than $10 million to creditors, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009.

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A tempered, but positive industry forecast

By Sam Smith on Mar. 28, 2012

The industry—in line with the economy—is experiencing a very uninspiring recovery. But a recovery nonetheless.

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The 2013 Restaurant Growth Index

By Restaurant Business Staff on Apr. 01, 2013

If there is one thing to take away from the 2013 Restaurant Growth Index it’s this: competition is more intense than ever.

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How to make customer engagement efforts work harder

By Kelly Killian on Apr. 02, 2014

Buffalo Wings & Rings was able to boost customer engagement a few percentage points with a simple move: going back to customers who did not respond to initial offers with retargeted messages.

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New Top 500 chain ranking shows cracks in the status quo

By Peter Romeo on Apr. 30, 2015

Fast casuals come on strong, as do “QSR Plus” brands, Technomic finds.

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Top 100 Independents: The newbies

By Kelly Killian on Oct. 23, 2015

Nearly two dozen of the nation’s highest-grossing independent restaurants weren’t in that rarified group last year. Here are the ones that muscled their way into the elite ranks.

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What indies know

By Scott Hume on Oct. 18, 2016

While independents aren’t immune to the issues plaguing chains in today’s restaurant climate, these top concepts are managing to jump the business hurdles to keep both staff and guests satisfied.

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Pie Five looks past fast casual to stem sales slide

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 25, 2017

The pizza chain is eying standard features of casual dining and quick-service restaurants in its bid to bounce back.

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