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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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Financing

The ongoing dangers of third-party delivery

The Bottom Line: The parent company of Tender Greens, which filed for bankruptcy this week, is laying part of the blame on its heavier reliance on delivery orders.

Financing

Lamb Weston paints a tough picture of restaurant demand right now

The global potato supplier reported weak earnings this week, blaming them in part on weak restaurant demand as quick-service traffic worsened in the spring.

Financing

How Pepper Lunch is breaking into the U.S. market

A Deeper Dive: Troy Hooper, CEO of the fast-casual Asian chain, joins the podcast to talk about the brand and how it plans to grow in the U.S.

Financing

Steak and Ale comes back from the dead, 16 years later

The Bottom Line: Paul Mangiamele has vowed to bring the venerable casual-dining chain back for more than a decade. He finally fulfilled that promise. Here’s a look inside.

Financing

A Pizza Hut franchisee battling with its franchisor files for bankruptcy

EYM Pizza, which has traded lawsuits with Pizza Hut over the franchisor’s efforts to terminate the stores over unpaid royalties, sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas.

Marketing

McDonald's will extend its $5 meal deal in most markets

Most of the fast-food giant’s markets have agreed to extend the discounted deal past its one-month limit. But the approval came after a heavy dose of politicking.

Financing

Here’s what an activist investor could push Starbucks to do

The Bottom Line: With the coffee shop chain reportedly talking with an activist investor, here’s a look at some of the potential changes they might demand.

Financing

Krispy Kreme sells a majority stake in Insomnia Cookies

A pair of private-equity groups, Verlinvest and Mistral Equity Partners, bought the stake, which values the cookie chain at $350 million. Krispy Kreme is keeping a 34% share in the concept.

Financing

Panera apparently wants to go it alone again

The Bottom Line: The bakery/café chain is reportedly planning to sell Caribou and Einstein Bros. restaurant concepts three years after forming Panera Brands.

Financing

Starbucks is reportedly getting an activist investor

Elliott Investment Management is apparently pushing the Seattle-based coffee shop chain to make changes, according to multiple media reports.

Technology

Tech outage shuts down Starbucks' order-ahead function

The coffee shop chain's mobile ordering system was not functional on Friday and some stores even shut down amid a global outage by Microsoft and the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

Financing

Pricing has driven restaurant sales growth for the past 2 years

The Bottom Line: Restaurant sales have grown for most of the past two years. But they haven't kept pace with menu price inflation, suggesting the industry is saturated again.

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