Operations

How the pandemic is affecting restaurant chains

Technomic Managing Principal Joe Pawlak joins this week’s RB podcast "A Deeper Dive" to talk about the Technomic Top 500 and how the pandemic is influencing sales.

How are the largest restaurant chains handling the coronavirus pandemic?

This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast “A Deeper Dive” features Joe Pawlak, managing principal with RB sister company Technomic, to talk about Technomic’s Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report and how the coronavirus has influenced those chains.

Discussion centers around the sales outlook for the year, which sectors will be hurt or helped most by the crisis and how things might look once the shutdown ends.

Pawlak also discusses the most important factors for chains coming out of the pandemic.

Please have a listen.

Members help make our journalism possible. Become a Restaurant Business member today and unlock exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to all of our content. Sign up here.

Multimedia

Exclusive Content

Financing

Papa Johns is reportedly weighing a buyout offer, again

The Bottom Line: The pizza chain is reportedly weighing an offer from Irth Capital Management that would take the company private, the latest in a long line of buyout rumors and reports.

Emerging Brands

Rice Mediterranean Kitchen brings Persian flavors to the table

This Iranian-American family has been slowly building a fast-casual Mediterranean brand with a Persian twist. It couldn't be more relevant.

Financing

Inside Omer Gajial's plans for Auntie Anne's owner GoTo Foods

The new CEO of the fast-food chain operator wants to build unit economics, improve the customer experience and build on its technology capabilities.

Trending

More from our partners