Food

Smashburger's S'mac & Cheese Burger smashed LTO expectations

Behind the Menu: The mashup of two favorites—mac ‘n cheese and burgers—took two years to perfect but became the chain’s best-selling limited-time item of the past two years.

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The big Burger King franchisee has overcome a pandemic, inflation, questions about its future and the death of multiple executives to become the industry’s best turnaround story of 2023.

Leadership

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