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Your quick morning dose of the restaurant news you need, every weekday, from the editors of Restaurant Business and Nation's Restaurant News.

A Deeper Dive

"A Deeper Dive" is a weekly podcast from Restaurant Business dedicated to going in-depth on the most pressing challenges and opportunities restaurant operators face today, hosted by Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze.

Menu Talk

“Menu Talk”, formally Menu Feed, is a weekly podcast hosted by Pat Cobe of Restaurant Business and Bret Thorn with Nation’s Restaurant News.

Restaurant Rewind

"Restaurant Rewind" is a weekly podcast hosted by Editor-at-Large Peter Romeo as he looks at the people, concepts and trends that helped create the restaurant industry as we know it today.

Working Lunch

Working Lunch is a podcast from Align Public Strategies devoted to explaining the so what and now what about key issues impacting the restaurant and retail industries.

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Operations

Panera Bread's turbulent transformation

It has been a rocky couple years of change for the iconic fast-casual brand. With the search for a new CEO underway, here's what that new leader will be taking on.

Financing

Restaurants greet 2025 with optimism and anxiety

Consumer confidence is improving and other economic indicators are trending up, operators said at this year’s ICR conference. But traffic remains a challenge.

Financing

Fire the CEO at your own risk

The Bottom Line: Excessive management turnover at companies can create their own set of problems as new executives look to make their mark. The restaurant industry is loaded with examples.

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It was a fitting end to a year marked by closures, bankruptcies and weak traffic. The industry appeared to lose sales to grocery and liquor stores.

Consumer confidence, value and West Coast wildfires were on restaurants’ minds at the annual investor conference in Orlando this week.

The Bottom Line: Excessive management turnover at companies can create their own set of problems as new executives look to make their mark. The restaurant industry is loaded with examples.

The pizza delivery chain is looking for strategies to spend more on local marketing, a year after a shift to national marketing did not generate promised sales results.

The inflationary gap between restaurants and supermarkets continued to narrow as the cost environment normalized.

A Deeper Dive: The podcast features Numerator Chief Economist Leo Feler, who talks about the potential impact of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy on restaurant sales.