Peter Romeo

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Miss. restaurant industry takes a stand against anti-gay law

Establishments are mounting a campaign to protect their tourism business.

This week’s 5 head-spinning moments: Peeks inside troubled minds

In a special edition, we go spelunking into the issues that preoccupied the restaurant business’s premier gathering of free thinkers, the industry Woodstock known as the Restaurant Leadership Conference.

The company revealed that comps, revenues and store-level margins were all down.

A look at what’s cycling on and off menus shows the changes depend on where the pizza is being sold.

The boundaries were moved by an epic food fight and a king-like ruler, among other change agents.

An unprecedented size for a restaurant franchisee was a factor, acknowledged Greg Flynn, but there’s much more to his company than unmatched sales levels.

The experts who took the stage during the first two days of the Restaurant Leadership Conference shared more than a few surprising assessments of the restaurant industry and its near-term prospects.

The sandwich chain was chosen from among the more than 300 chains that have earned a place on RB's Future 50 ranking during the last 11 years.

The landmark dining spot for New York City power brokers could not get its lease renewed.

The adoption of that pay floor in California and New York is just the start for the industry, speakers at the Restaurant Leadership Conference agreed. They see implications that may not fit the conventional thinking.

Factoids aired yesterday at the Restaurant Leadership Conference provided startling insights into everything from delivery partnerships to drink refills. Here are a handful that ended up in our notes, starred and underscored.

A complicated plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for all restaurant workers was just one provision of the budget that will impose new employment burdens.

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