How Panda Express is luring convenience-focused diners
The nearly 40-year-old fast casual, known for its hot foods serving line, is eyeing new store formats and upgraded tech to shorten the “customer journey” to its heaping plates of orange chicken.Restaurant Business Exclusive Content
Food
The hummus wave is becoming a tsunami
A dip that originated in the Middle East has gone mainstream on fast-casual and school-lunch menus. Now new variations are coming out of those roots.
Marketing
How Culver’s turned its April Fool’s joke into a big marketing win
The Midwest burger chain, not known for taking risks, quickly developed its cheese curd topped Curderburger after its prank led to a push for a real one. The result was a social media win and, perhaps, a regular menu offering.
Operations
Restaurants unlikely to find relief under Biden's supply-chain remedies
The president's plan addresses only one problem afflicting the pipeline, and that's not enough, according to RB's Reality Check.