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Peter Romeo

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Peter Romeo

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Food

QSRs aim for value with new riffs on the spud

The potato might be the ingredient of the moment in the limited-service sector.

Leadership

Del Frisco’s reshuffles management

The operator's leadership changes comprise its latest move to reinvigorate sales.

Consumer Trends

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Most and least

During a summer of extremes, what else could we expect but a week of restaurant mosts and leasts? Here's a sampling.

Beverage

Alcohol delivery: Casual dining’s big opportunity?

With noticeable caution but high hopes, chains are seeing how they can include a bottle or six-pack with off-premise orders.

Panera’s new parent buys another chain

Europe-based JAB Holdings is adding Bruegger’s Bagels to its portfolio.

Technology

This week’s restaurant nightmares: Bad bets

Good intentions don't always yield anything approximating good results. And reason doesn't stand a chance against a juicy though absolutely crazy rumor, as Starbucks can attest.

Operations

Plugging the talent drain

The warning flare was fired during our Restaurant Trends & Directions conference in Chicago, when many a QSR manager might have been wondering why they weren’t getting as many summer job candidates as they had in the past.

Technology

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Elon Musk insults edition

The Thomas Edison of our time has no lock on technological breakthroughs. Check out the leaps that were clocked this week alone in the restaurant business. Hearing footsteps, Elon?

Dunkin’ revs up revamp into new sort of brand

The doughnut specialist is ready to start transforming stores into more of a "beverage-led, on-the-go" concept.

Joe's Crab Shack closures top 40

The casual chain has quietly been cut by more than a third as it awaits a change in ownership.

Potential sales mix for delivery: 40%, study finds

And most of the increased business should be incremental, with no loss by traditional leaders like pizza chains.

Consumer Trends

Keeping up appearances

The point is that sometimes people want to be like—and liked by—others, and sometimes they want to be different. The topic relates to how health is being redefined.

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