Financing
How your restaurant sales and profits compare to competitors' and what you can do to improve financial performance
Financing
Weighing the cost of proprietary sauces
As operators push to cater to consumers’ growing demand for on-trend food, proprietary menu items—sauces, dips, etc.—are looking more and more appealing.
Financing
25 top limited-service chains
Financial and popular success don't always align in the restaurant business, but they do on this one-of-a-kind list from Restaurant Business. The publication worked with its research sister, Technomic, to rank limited-service chains by a combination of sales and customer satisfaction. It's offered here in a partnership with the popular general-business website, BusinessInsider.com.
Sales at the major fast-casual restaurants are growing at nearly three times the rate for the industry as a whole, but that intake is not being evenly distributed. What fast-casual brands are at the front of that increasingly crowded pack? Restaurant Business borrowed data from its research sister, Technomic, to rate the 40 largest fast-casual chains by systemwide sales. Here, in ascending order, are the sector’s largest chains by sales volumes.