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Peter Romeo

Editor at Large

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Peter Romeo is director of digital content of the foodservice group of Winsight Media, with responsibility for the content of Restaurant Business and FoodService Director magazines, RestaurantBusinessOnline.com, and the Restaurant Leadership Conference. The multi-media job caps a 34-year career as a business journalist, including 28 years as a chain-restaurant specialist for such information channels as Nation’s Restaurant News, QSR magazine, and the website of the National Restaurant Association. Romeo’s columns during an earlier stint at Restaurant Business earned him two Jesse H. Neal Awards, business publishing’s equivalent of the Pulitzers. He graduated from New York University in 1979 with honors in history and journalism, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He resides in the New York City suburb of Port Washington with his wife, Holly Klokis; four rescued greyhounds; and four ne’er-do-well, slightly nervous cats.

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Leadership

Rosati’s co-founder Fred Rosati dies at 102

The transplanted New Yorker opened his first pizzeria in Chicagoland in 1964.

Financing

Dine Brands stockholders to vote on spinning off IHOP

The Applebee's parent has a proxy resolution calling for the company's two brands to be split.

Operations

Sales at Chili’s drop to a third of usual volume

Delivery and takeout business has more than doubled, but off-premise is generating only about 30%-35% of former sales levels.

Financing

How to apply for federal relief loans

Here's the process as it applies to restaurants.

Workforce

N.C. restaurant workers offered $500 in aid

A new program from the North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association is offering the funds for immediate relief based on need and longevity.

Operations

Logan’s parent fires its furloughed employees

The move comes after bankruptcy-court supervisors fired CEO Hazem Ouf and CFO Jim Lebs for paying sales taxes without permission.

Operations

Chuy’s, Ruth’s Chris adopt extraordinary measures

Staffs have been furloughed, salaries have been cut, and cash has been pooled.

Operations

Restaurant damage to date: $25B in sales, 3 million jobs

New research shows the impact has been particularly severe for operators in New York—a possible preview of what’s to come in other areas.

Topics

Coronavirus heroes and villains

The COVID-19 crisis is as much a test of character as it is of financial resilience. And some parties are clearly failing.

Operations

10 days that changed the restaurant industry

For much of March, the threat of COVID-19 grew as the infection spread. On March 11, that problem became very real for thousands of restaurant operators and millions of employees, beginning a 10-day period unlike anything the industry has ever seen. The business may never be the same.

Workforce

Fund formed to provide $500 in aid to restaurant workers in need

The relief program has been formed by the National Restaurant Association’s Educational Foundation in collaboration with leading industry suppliers.

Operations

King’s Seafood finds relief in retailing

The 20-unit multiconcept group is turning its restaurants into pop-up markets where it can sell its supplies at a deep discount to consumers and employees.

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