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2017 Top 500: Bakery Cafe chains

 By Restaurant Business Staff on Jun. 07, 2017

While the bakery café menu category saw its total sales increase by 4% to $7.3 billion and units by 1% to 3,499, performance among the individual brands varied widely.

Food

Is pumpkin spice on the skids?

 By Patricia Cobe on Sep. 05, 2017

The reigning fall flavor may be losing favor

Leadership

Ron Shaich to step down as Panera CEO

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 08, 2017

He'll be succeeded by Blaine Hurst, but will remain involved with the chain while simultaneously serving in a strategic role for owner JAB Holdings.

Leadership

Ron Shaich’s theory on CEOs

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 12, 2018

After serving one company for 36 years, the former Panera Bread chief has some definite ideas about what a chain leader should be.

Marketing

The big idea: Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Pass

By Restaurant Business Staff on Jan. 30, 2018

Olive Garden asked a cross-functional team—finance, marketing, operations, communications and others—to build on its Never Ending Pasta Bowl promo.

The skinny on trans fat

By Restaurant Business Staff on Feb. 15, 2005

The skinny on trans fat What's trans fat and why are they saying all those terrible things about it?

Union bashes Au Bon Pain’s menu in new P.R. campaign

By Peter Romeo on Dec. 19, 2014

Unite Here has launched what it calls a “consumer education campaign” that asserts the bakery-café chain’s menu is anything but healthful.

Food

6 ways to upgrade cereal

By Lizzy Freier on Feb. 06, 2017

Operators are taking cereal out of the bowl and swapping it in desserts, coffee, cocktails and other breakfast dishes.

Food

5 ways to tap maple beyond breakfast

By Lizzy Freier on Mar. 06, 2017

Maple flavors are growing at lunch and dinner and in beverages.

Financing

Fast casual has angst to overcome

By Scott Hume on May 25, 2017

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote that “maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists,” and so it has been with the coming-of-age fast-casual restaurant segment.

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