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Peter Romeo

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Peter Romeo

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Operations

4 ways Texas Roadhouse intends to keep outpacing other brands

With same-store sales up 8.5% for the first month of Q2, how does the casual operator plan to keep outpacing the pack? Here’s what management has revealed.

Operations

The best U.S. cities to open a restaurant

A new study highlights the large urban centers where a small business like a restaurant has the best chance of succeeding.

Operations

Casual dining on life support? Not this week

Early Q1 earnings reports show some big-name players reaping the benefits of programs that began long ago.

Leadership

How to succeed the founder: Different by design at Not Your Average Joe’s

CEO Peter D’Amelio worked with chain creator Steve Silverstein to ensure a smooth transition, but he's no passive caretaker. The onetime president of The Cheesecake Factory is plotting his own course.

Workforce

This week’s 4 head-spinning moments: Labor troubles

As if supply and demand weren’t enough of a labor problem for restaurants, along comes a pummeling from unions and their fellow travelers, including the vote by a Burgerville unit's staff to unionize.

Operations

Famous Dave’s lifts the napkin off its delivery-only concept

 COO Geovannie Concepcion reveals more details about casual dining's latest scaled-down venture.

Operations

Dunkin’ Donuts pays a price for trimming the menu

A flurry of sales-boosting initiatives at the chain failed to offset the traffic impact of product streamlining.

Technology

High-tech Zume Pizza is ready for next growth phase

Fewer robots will be involved, and the tech is available to other concepts, as the cook-onboard delivery concept is shifting into expansion mode.

Marketing

This week's restaurant nightmares: Real or fake?

Some of the industry's biggest names were smeared this week by developments that seemed too far-out to be true. That's because they weren't. Except for those court developments.

Workforce

Tip credit reconsideration begins in N.Y.

The first in a series of hearings was convened Friday to gauge the public's opinion on disallowing the break in pay for the employers of tipped employees.

Operations

Famous Dave's to try delivery-only format

The casual chain is looking at kitchen-only formats after shrinking the size and tweaking the back of house of its conventional stores.

Operations

E. coli victim count could climb, CDC says

The time frame for potential contamination was longer than authorities first indicated. Meanwhile, the outbreak has spread to 16 states.

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