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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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How growth chains are growing

 By Restaurant Business Staff on May 19, 2011

The two keys to restaurant growth in this sluggish economy? Innovation and relevance.

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What's happening at the table across the pond

 By Patricia Cobe on May 23, 2011

Restaurant Business sat down with Peter Backman, managing director with Horizons, a London-based foodservice consultancy, to compare restaurant trends in the U.S. and the U.K.

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Commodities Costs Have Restaurants Cutting Closer To The Bone

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 19, 2011

After trimming the obvious fat, restaurant chains are now having to cut closer to the bone as they look for ways to combat rising food costs and preserve healthy margins while avoiding significant price hikes.

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Where are they now?

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 30, 2011

Restaurantbusiness.com looks back at some of the concepts that figured into past Future 50 rankings of the day’s up-and-comers.

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Top 3 surprises from 2011's Future 50

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 30, 2011

A look through all six installments of our annual Future 50 report triggered some double-takes about the chains on this year’s list.

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Bright signs for a bright start

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 01, 2011

The breakfast daypart is revved up and raring to go—just like those eaters who begin their day with an energizing morning meal.

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R&D: Dunkin’ Donuts breakfast menu

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jul. 01, 2011

In February, 2009 Dunkin Donuts introduced the first breakfast sandwich featuring waffles.

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Frozen drinks

By Thomas Henry Strenk on Jul. 14, 2011

Every summer the big quickservice chains expand their frozen drink offerings with cool LTOs and this season is no exception.

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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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Anti-energy: “Relaxation” beverages ride a backlash

By Thomas Henry Strenk on Aug. 01, 2011

Are energy drinks running out of gas? Do they belong on your beverage list anymore? And what about the emerging sleeper category of “relaxation beverages”?

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