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Who will be the next CEO of Chipotle?

The speculation about who'll be Steve Ells' successor is already at full throttle. Here are a few of the candidates we think may be in the mix.

Consumer Trends

Beginnings and endings spark the menu

Menu makers these days are placing more attention on the items that come before and after the main event. Originality, full flavor and familiarity with a twist are the keys to creating successful appetizers in 2012.

The ballpark favorite will get the flame-broiled treatment.

Consumers say these restaurant chains provide the best guest pampering.

Northeast Foods was cited in Massachusetts for letting children work too long and too late.

Restaurant Brands International also named Matt Dunnigan CFO.

Did the industry sneak off to Colorado or Washington for a few now-legal bong hits? How else could the business have brainstormed jaw-droppers like these?

Flynn Restaurant Group’s annual revenues outpace all other influential franchisees. Here’s a comparison.

Chiropractors' delights this week included suggestions Chipotle may scrap its burger venture, a backfire for Burger King on a new form of advertising, a rethink of delivery by Taco Bell and a potentially devastating threat to alcohol sales.

In this environment, anything is possible, but such a deal seems unlikely, says RB's The Bottom Line.

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