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Jonathan Maze

Editor-in-Chief

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Restaurant Business Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Maze is a longtime industry journalist who writes about restaurant finance, mergers and acquisitions and the economy, with a particular focus on quick-service restaurants. He writes daily about the factors influencing the operating environment, including labor and food costs and various industry trends such as technology and delivery.

Jonathan has been widely quoted in media publications such as the New York Times and the Washington Post and has appeared on CNBC, Yahoo Finance and NPR. He writes a weekly finance-focused newsletter for Restaurant Business, The Bottom Line, and is the host of the weekly podcast “A Deeper Dive.”

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Jonathan Maze

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Technology

Domino's and Microsoft are working together on artificial intelligence

The pizza delivery giant and the technology company will join forces to develop AI strategies to improve operations and customer service.

Financing

Krispy Kreme is putting Insomnia Cookies on the market

The Charlotte-based company said that a sale of the cookie delivery company five years after acquiring the chain would “unlock shareholder value.”

Operations

Federal court orders a Subway franchisee to close or sell their restaurants

The judge awarded nearly $1 million in back pay and damages to employees of a Bay Area 14-unit Subway operator after finding they issued bad checks, kept tips and violated child labor laws.

Leadership

Martha Stewart leaves the BurgerFi board

The lifestyle media maven, who gave the Florida-based company a big name when she joined the board in 2021, quietly stepped down as director last month.

Marketing

Wendy's and McDonald's defeat a lawsuit over their burger marketing

A judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the two burger chains misled customers on the sizes of their burgers.

Financing

Higher-end consumers may be slowing their spending

The Bottom Line: There is some evidence that higher-income consumers may be cutting back. Or maybe there was just some pent-up demand.

Emerging Brands

5 huge restaurant chain trends

Here are the types of concepts that restaurant entrepreneurs and investors are betting will be big in the next few years.

Technology

Marco's Pizza to start testing autonomous vehicle delivery

The pizza chain has signed a memorandum of understanding with mobile tech company Magna to test last-mile delivery in locations in North America.

Financing

Demand for chicken takes Huey Magoo's to new heights

Longtime chicken executive Andy Howard saw something in the tiny Florida chain more than five years ago. It is now one of the fastest growing concepts in the country.

Financing

Stake your claim to the low-price market at your own risk

The Bottom Line: Subway and Burger King have staked their claims as value leaders in their respective segments. Recent events have highlighted the difficulties of that position.

Financing

A Burger King franchisee gets sold out of bankruptcy, and a big buyer is Burger King

Meridian Restaurants, the large operator that declared bankruptcy in March, is selling 70 of its 91 remaining restaurants to several different franchisees as well as the brand following an auction this month.

Financing

How Gregg Majewski is building Craveworthy Brands

A Deeper Dive: The longtime industry executive and investor discusses what it takes to build the brand collector. He also discusses restaurant delivery, menu prices and mergers and acquisitions.

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